Six Class of 2024 students receive prestigious Hoopes Prize

The department would like to congratulate six graduating seniors who received the 2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize.

The Hoopes Prize is awarded to undergraduates on the basis of outstanding scholarly work or research, usually in the form of a senior thesis. It is considered the most prestigious undergraduate research award given by Harvard College. Each student winner receives a $5,000 award. Advisors of winning projects are awarded $2,000 for “excellence in the art of teaching.”

2024 Sociology Hoopes Winners

“Shaping Chicago: How Ownership and Trust Influence Engagement in Building the City”
LyLena Estabine
Advisor: Nicolette Bardele

“Welcome to the Party: Black Masculine Performance and the Co-Construction of Authenticity in Drill Rap”
Alexia Ingram
Advisor: Emma Bogler

“Patching Loss, Love, and Life: Vietnamese Migrant Divorcees in South Korea”
My Hien Le
Advisors: Elena Ayala-Hurtado and Professor Paul Chang

“Just Do It for the Kids: An Examination of Teachers’ Boundaries, Contractual Role, and Unrewarded Sacrifices”
Samantha Maroshick
Advisor: Professor Christina Ciocca Eller

“(Mis)Informed Decision-Making: How Healthcare Providers Invoke Science to Influence Reproductive Choice”
Lucy Tu
Advisor: Professor Jocelyn Viterna

“ ‘Into the Lion’s Den’: How a Child Welfare Reform Became a Mechanism for Investigating and Governing Families”
Victoria Wang
Advisor: Jingyun Dai

Additional Hoopes Winners supervised by Sociology Faculty

“Judges, Loved Ones, and Bondsmen: An Ethnography of Cash Bail in a Southern U.S. City”
Charlotte Baker
Advisor: Dr. Tom Wooten

“Immoral Medicine: A Comparative Study of Religious Influence on Drug Policy in Portugal and Spain”
Logan Kelly
Advisor: Professor Adaner Usmani