The Eddie Mabry Diversity Award recognizes academic work by dedicated students who have demonstrated a significant commitment to enhancing multicultural awareness at Augustana. Submissions included works that explore issues related to diversity and multiculturalism such as social class, culture, race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexuality, disability, and religion.
Winners from 2020
Don’t Act So Innocent, Midwest: A Midwestern Lynching Narrative, Lauren Hall
Ode to The Black Body, Imani Muhammad
Winners from 2019
Documenting the Undocumented: An Ethnography of Mexican Immigrant Juan Estrada Salazar, Vanessa Dominguez
Space and Identity: Mexican-American Dance Halls in The Quad Cities, Crystal Salazar
Winners from 2018
Toward a Theology of Transformation, Hannah Kathleen Griggs
Feminist Critique on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Karen Ruiz
Winners from 2017
Anxiety and Hypocrisy: An Analysis of the Skin Lightening Industry in India and the United States’ Criticism of the Skin Lightening Practice, Alyssa Froehling
"From local to global: Exploring the unique identity of Afro-Caribbean Women", Matthew A. Henry Sr.
Orientalism: the constructed, violent Muslim “race”, Clarissa Stephenson
Winners from 2016
Microaggression Simulation (Graphic Design Instillation), Anna T. Dominguez
The Killing of an ‘Angry Black Woman’: Sandra Bland and the Politics of Respectability, Victoria D. Gillon
Winners from 2015
Education, Crystal C. Gray
At Your Prettiest/Your Name Is, Jake Phillips
More Than Just an Image: Pop Culture Representations of Latinxs and the Immigration Debate, Vanessa Reyes