Women and Gender Studies Program Faculty win first ever “Sustaining Mentor Award” from the Office of Undergraduate Research (OSCAR).Professors Shannon Davis (Sociology and Women & Gender Studies) and Danielle Rudes (Criminology, Law and Society and Women & Gender Studies) were honored at the Celebration of Student Scholarship and Impact event on May 7, 2019.
The Sustaining Excellence Mentor Award is given to mentors of undergraduate researchers who previously earned the OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award and continue to be nominated for their mentorship of students. This award indicates their sustained excellence in mentoring undergraduate students at Mason.
Danielle Rudes-Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society
-has mentored 25+ individual students since 2008 and supported students using two Summer Impact Team Projects, multiple URSP awards and OSCAR Research Assistants. Her students regularly present at regional and national conferences and several are published academic authors. In addition she mentors multiple students each semester in Undergraduate Research Lab at the Center Advancing Correctional Excellence! (ACE!) and is a member of the Students as Scholars Leadership Council/ Undergraduate Education Advisory board. She received an OSCAR Scholarship Development Grant to build the CLS capstone course and another GMU grant to work with Drs. Lauren Cattaneo and Angie Hattery to develop a Mass Incarceration & Social Justice cross-disciplinary minor.
Shannon Davis-Professor, Sociology, Director Graduate Studies (Sociology), Interim
Senior Associate Dean (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
-has mentored 24 individual student projects since 2008. Her students regularly present at regional or national conferences. Many have moved into research positions after graduation and/or have published their research findings in refereed outlets. She was part of the Sociology team who were awarded an OSCAR Scholarship Development Grant to scaffold research into Sociology Major. In addition to her mentoring and teaching awards at Mason, she was also awarded the Kathleen S. Lowney Mentoring Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 2018.
Both Shannon and Danielle are program faculty in Women and Gender Studies. They have both served on our executive committee, taught classes in our program and mentored our students. We are grateful for their contributions to Women and Gender Studies!
June 25, 2019
