Meet the 2025 Library Graduate Prize Winners
Creating outstanding public scholarship using library resources
"Congratulations to the 2025 recipients of the UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize: Maria Cruz (Ph.D. Candidate, Public Health Sciences), Tara Pozzi (Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology), and Mikhaila Redovian and Kirsten Schuhmacher (Ph.D. Candidates, English).
In its second year, the Library Graduate Student Prize is awarded to graduate student researchers who have used the library to create outstanding, publicly engaged scholarship.
Through their research, Cruz, Pozzi, and Redovian and Schuhmacher explored topics including how first responders can better address the needs of the Spanish-speaking Latine community during times of crisis; factors that motivate environmental justice groups to form connections and networks to further their goals; and the cosmopolitan and global, rather than Eurocentric, nature of the premodern period.
The prize recipients each receive $1,000 and were celebrated at an award ceremony this week. The Library Graduate Student Prize is co-sponsored by the UC Davis Library and the Office of Public Scholarship and Engagement."