In October, recent Jackson School graduate Yogasai Gazula (B.A. International Studies 2021), received Best Undergraduate Paper, Pacific Northwest Labor History Association Best Projects in Labor Studies Prizes 2021-2022, as administered by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.
Gazula wrote her award-winning paper “Always On-Demand: How the Gig Economy is Changing Traditional Work Practices” in spring quarter 2021 in a South Asia Studies class on capitalism taught by Sunila Kale, associate professor in the South Asia Studies and International Studies programs at the Jackson School.
She is also a recipient of a South Asia Center Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Academic Year 2019-20 (Sanskrit) and Summer 2020 and Academic Year 2020-2021 (Hindi), and Critical Language Scholarship (2020), a U.S. State Department summer study abroad program for students to learn languages considered essential for America’s engagement in the world.
