Campus honors
Campus honors
- December 16, 2014
- Social sciences professors recognized for diversity education and advancement
Three social sciences faculty have been named recipients of awards from UCI ADVANCE
in recognition of diversity education and advancement.
Heidi Hardt (pictured middle right), political science assistant professor, and Rocio
Rosales (pictured top left), sociology assistant professor, have received Career Development
Awards to support their enrollment in the Faculty Success Program. The nationwide
program supports faculty career development through collaborative goal building and
accountability as well as providing a professional environment for research and time
management skills building. Social sciences matched funding for the awards to cover
the full program tuition cost. Ana Rosas (pictured bottom right), Chicano/Latino studies
associate professor, is one of four campus recipients of the ADVANCE Spirit Grant,
recognizing advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion at UCI. 
“I’m delighted our faculty have received these awards,” says Bill Maurer, social science
dean. “We're putting front and center the importance of inclusive excellence in everything
we do, from research to faculty career development and student support, and we're
pleased to have such an active partner in the ADVANCE Program."
“To have three social sciences faculty among UCI’s select recipients of these awards
is really outstanding," says Nina Bandelj, sociology professor and social sciences
equity advisor.
"That our dean provided matching funds in all cases makes obvious that in social sciences
we do not 'talk the talk' of diversity and inclusive excellence, but really 'walk
the walk.'"
Hardt joined the UCI faculty in fall 2014. She is the 2014-2015 Fulbright-Schuman
European Union Institute Chair and will be conducting research on NATO while a fellow
at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She is the author of Time
to React: The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response (Oxford
University Press, 2014) and has published widely on NATO, the EU and military interventions.
She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International and Development
Studies, Geneva and her master’s degree in European studies from the London School
of Economics.
Rosales was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego in the Center for Comparative
Immigration Studies before coming to UCI in 2014. Her research focuses on international
migration, informal economies and ethnic/immigrant enclaves. She has published findings
on these topics in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Ethnic and Racial
Studies. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA.
Rosas’s research focuses on cross-border family relationships of Mexican immigrants.
She is currently completing a book manuscript on Mexican immigrant family migration
and settlement in Mexico and the U.S. Her work has been supported by the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Museum of American History, Ford Foundation, Stanford University’s
Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West and the University of California
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
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