Rocha Beardall Receives William T. Grant Scholars Award
Posted: 2026-11-06 12:55:08 (CSDE in the News)
CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) was named a William T. Grant Scholar, one of seven researchers selected nationwide this year. The award supports promising early-career researchers as they expand their expertise into new disciplines, methods, or content areas, and provides $425,000 over five years. Dr. Rocha Beardall’s research bridges race, law, inequality, policing, child welfare, indigeneity, and tribal sovereignty. With the award, she will reconstruct the histories of Native children affected by federal Indian boarding schools in Washington State by locating, digitizing, and linking records scattered across archives, with UW student researchers helping to retrieve and catalog the materials. She will work under the direction of the Puyallup Tribal Historic Preservation Department, supporting tribally governed research and curriculum development while building new expertise in Indigenous data sovereignty and supervised machine learning. The award also includes mentoring and an annual summer retreat for Scholars to receive feedback on works in progress. Congratulations, Dr. Rocha Beardall!
Date: 11/06/2026