The Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award is intended to recognize outstanding achievements in mentoring by recognizing faculty who have made exceptional contributions to a student's graduate education experience. Dr. Madhavan is among four faculty members selected in a competitive process of 28 nominees to be named Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year for 2016. 

Sangeetha Madhavan is an Associate Professor in the Department of African-American Studies and Associate Director at the Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park. She received her MA and PHD in Sociology and Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. She has a wide range of research interests including children's well-being, household and family change, the social context of HIV/AIDS and population movement all in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Her recent publications appear in Journal of Family Issues, Culture, Health and Society and International Journal of Epidemiology. Forthcoming publications will be appearing in Journal of South African Studies, Journal of Adolescent Research and Journal of Family and Economic Issues. She has been a lead investigator in several federally funded grants for research in South Africa and is soon to start an new NIH funded project in urban Kenya on the support networks of poor, single mothers. She teaches courses on Gender and Family, Social Inequalities and Health, HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective and African Development.

The awardees will be  recognized at the upcoming Graduate School's Annual Fellowship and Award Celebration on Thursday, May 12, 2016.