#  Six Class of 2024 students receive prestigious Hoopes Prize 

 





May 02, 2024

 

 

The department would like to congratulate six graduating seniors who received the [2024 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/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



 

 

 



 

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