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Sociology Ph.D student Charlene Cruz-Cerdas was recently awarded the Cesar Chavez Dissertation Fellowship at Dartmouth College. Her dissertation is titled, "Forced to Choose: How Racialization and the Privatization of Higher Education Constrain Latino College Choice."