Education achievements: University names Carson City women to dean’s list

Brayli Jade Dripps and Haley Patricia Stokes, both of Carson City, were named to the fall 2014 dean’s list at Seattle Pacific University in Seattle, Wash.

To make the list, students must have completed at least 12 credits and achieved a 3.5 or better grade-point average.

Cassia Roth wins women’s dissertation fellowship

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation announced the selection of this year’s 10 Dissertation Fellows in Women’s Studies, a list that includes University of California, Los Angeles doctoral candidate Cassia Roth, whose mother lives in Carson City.

The Women’s Studies Fellowship is the only national program to support doctoral work on women’s and gendered issues. Each 2015 Newcombe Fellow will receive a $5,000 award to help cover expenses incurred while completing their dissertations.

The 2015 Fellows are writing on topics such as reproduction in the context of chronic disease, algorithmic detection of child abuse images, and changing feminist visions at the UN from 1975 to 1995.

Roth is a doctoral candidate in history. Her dissertation, “A Miscarriage of Justice: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1890-1940),” analyzes women’s reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

For more information, go to http://woodrow.org/news/2015-womens-studies-fellows-announced/.