Karin Mak (Soc Doc '08), has received a number of grants for the completion of her thesis project, “Red Dust.”
- Roy W. Dean Film Grant-Los Angeles - a highly competitive grant, finalists included some very prominent, veteran, documentary filmmakers
- Emerging Crisis Oral History Research Fund
- Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF)
- Pacific Rim Mini-Grant
Karin also won the Social Sciences Best of Division prize at the 4th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, UCSC.