Grants and Awards

Ford Foundation Grant to study "The Impact of Central American Migration to the U.S. on Sending Communities in El Salvador and Guatemala," (co-principal investigator) ($80,000).

U. Miami North-South Center Grant to study "Attitudes Towards Return Migration among Salvadorans and Guatemalans in Los Angeles and San Francisco," August 1994-June 1996; (co-principal investigator) ($70,000).

CSU Community Service Coalition-U. S. Department of Education Urban Community Service Grant, "Enhancing Minority Entrepreneurship in Long Beach," 1993-96. ($150,000)

Yosano Akiko Award (for Heroism and Service), Friends of Women's Studies, 1994

Most Inspirational Professor Award, Sociology Student Association, June 1993.

Meritorious Faculty Performance Award, CSULB, 1988

Professional Opportunities Program Award, Spring 1986, to conduct an exploratory study of Central American Migration to Los Angeles (resulting in two unpublished articles and a research proposal to IUP-SSRC that was later funded).

Friends of Women's Studies Award for Outstanding Research on Women, 1985

U. of Texas-Mellon Foundation Grant for Research on "Women in Guatemalan History," Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, U. of Texas Library, Summer, 1983.

International Roster of Women Scholars and Professionals, U.N. Commission on Women and Development, 1978

Social Science Research Council grant to study "The Effects of Industrialization on Female Employment in Guatemala," Summer 1976

Minority and Women Faculty Development Grant, Academic Affairs Office of the University of California, Irvine, 1975 to study "Gender and the Mode of Production in Guatemala."

Ford Foundation Interdepartmental Research Summer Grant to Recife, Brazil, 1968, to study "Community Development and Consciousness in Northeastern Brazil."

NDEA Fellow, University of Wisconsin (Madison), 1966-69.

Fulbright Fellow to Guatemala, U. of San Carlos, School of Law, 1965-66.

Raymond College Outstanding Student in Social Sciences, 1962 and 1965

President of Raymond College Student Body, 1966

Graduation with Honors and First in Class, Raymond College, 1965 (Phi Kappa Phi)