The APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession is now accepting nominations for the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentoring Award.
Named in honor of the first Latina to earn a PhD in political science, Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell, this award recognizes the exceptional mentoring of Latino/a students and junior faculty each year with three awards. The awards are given in the areas of undergraduate, graduate, and junior faculty mentoring. Learn more about past recipients of the award.
Submit your nomination for a mentor you know by July 15, 2026.
Mentoring of Undergraduates: Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University
Betina Cutaia Wilkinson is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Politics and International Affairs department at Wake Forest University. Her book project Partners or Rivals? Power and Latino, Black and White Relations in the 21st Century (University of Virginia Press, 2015) won the American Political Science Association REP Section’s Best Book Award on Inter-Race Relations in the United States. In 2015, Wilkinson was awarded an Early Career Award by the Midwest Political Science Association’s Latina/o Caucus. She has served as the President of the Midwest Political Science Association’s Latina/o Caucus, editorial board member of the PS: Political Science & Politics journal, executive council member of the Midwest Political Science Association, and as an advisory board member of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Center for Innovative Faculty Development.
Mentoring of Graduate Students: Angie Torres-Beltran, University of Arizona
Angie Torres-Beltran is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She holds a B.A. from the University of Central Florida and Ph.D. from Cornell University. Torres-Beltran is also a Research Affiliate in the Gender and Security Sector Lab and in the Eliminating Violence Against Women Lab. Her award-winning research examines how gender and violence shape political behavior and development in Latin America and Mexico, in particular. Her research has been published in Political Science Research and Methods, International Studies Quarterly, PS: Political Science and Politics, among others, and has been featured in Nexos and The Washington Post.
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