The Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) awards the Dean Hank Dobin Prize in Community-Engaged Independent Work to students whose outstanding thesis and accompanying short translational report has the potential to impact communities, whether through extensive research, policy recommendations, or new information and analysis.  The prize is named after former Dean Dobin, who was instrumental to the creation of ProCES. 

Congratulations to the 2025 winners!

First Prize

Connie Gong (Sociology): “Ain’t Nothing Easy ‘Bout Being in Angola”: Farm Labor and Punishment at the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Second Place

Mia James (Anthropology): Planting Seeds of Change: An Assessment of Urban Agriculture in Combating Food Insecurity in Newark, New Jersey

Third Prize

Alanna Jordan (School of Public and International Affairs): Repurposing Gang Experiences through Identity Reinterpretation: A Qualitative Evaluation of Community Violence Intervention Using Chicago CRED as a Case Study

The short translational reports will be posted this summer.