Past Recipients

2011-12

Matthew Blanton

(American Studies)
Leveling the Playing Field? College Football and Making Hierarchy in the Progressive Era United States

Janna Bray

(Political Science)
Friend or Foe: Muslim Immigrants and Center-Left Political Parties in Western Europe

Ayanna Brown

(History)
That peace shall always dwell among them and true love be upheld: Charity, Neighborliness, and Lay Fellowship in Late Medieval and Early Reformation England

Alison DeSimone

(Musicology)
The Myth of the Diva: Female Opera Singers and Collaborative Performance in Early 18th-century England

Jane Menon

(Political Science)
Women's Activism in Islamist Organizations: A Comparative Study of the Jamaat-e-Islami in South Asia

Isabel Millan

(American Culture)
Ninas Raras: Mediated Que(e)ries in Latina Kidizenship

Tracy Pearson

(Dance)
Personal Culture and Its Effects on the Creative Process of Female Choreographers: A Journey into the Rabbit Hole

Christine Sargent

(Anthropology)
Debating the Domestic: Labor, Citizenship, Race, and Female Migrant Workers in Lebanon

Ryoko Sato

(Economics)
Salient Role Model and Its Effect on Immunization Behavior

Stephen Spiess

(English)
Shakespeare's Whore: Sex, Language, and Epistemology on the Early Modern Stage, 1576-1632

Marie Stango

(History)
Rejoicing to Meet Their Brother and Welcome Him Home: Masculine Ideals in the American Colonization of Liberia

Lara Stein Pardo

(Anthropology)
Artists, Aesthetics, and Migrations: Caribbean Women Artists in Miami, Florida, and the Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Production

2010-11

Carmen Alvarez

(Nursing)
Sexual Communication among Young Adult Heterosexual Latino Couples

Vanessa Diaz

(Anthropology)
Crafting Celebrity and Marketing Fame: An Ethnographic Study of Celebrity Media Production

Brady G’Sell

(Anthropology and History)
Women’s Child-Support Claims and the Remaking of Political Identity

Jessica Hoel

(Economics)
Perceptions of Wealth and the Demand for Health

David Lipps

(Biomedical Engineering)
Why Do Women Have a Greater ACL Strain?

Amr Kamal

(Comparative Literature)
I Shop Therefore I Am: Inside and Outside Department Stores

Yan Long

(Women’s Studies and Sociology)
From Blood to Sex: The Paradox of a Transnational AIDS Movement in China, 2005–09

Jamie Small

(Women’s Studies and Sociology)
Law and the Production of Sexuality: Processing Male Rape in the Legal Field

Zheng Mu

(Sociology)
Double Jeopardy? The Interaction of Gender and Ethnicity on Education for Chinese Hui Muslim, 1982–2005

Angela Perez-Villa

(History and Women’s Studies)
Slave Freedom Suits in Cuba and Colombia: A Gender Perspective

Katherine Rosenblatt

(History)
Between the Old Left and the New: Eleanor Flexner and the Writing of Century of Struggle

Adena Rottenstein

(Psychology)
A Multi-Dimensional Model of Disability Identity: Exploring the Social/Collective Identities of Women with Disabilities

2009-10

Elizabeth Armstrong

(Social Work and Sociology)
Bounding Violence: Media Narratives and the Discursive Limits of Intimate Partner Violence

Jimmy Draper

(Communication Studies)
Negotiating the "lavender whiff": Gay Masculinities in Men’s Lifestyle Magazines, 1990-2010

Kristen Elmore

(Social Work and Psychology)
Gender in the Classroom

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto

(History)
Domestic Virtue, Indian Harems, and the Woman’s Exponent: Defending Mormon Polygamy, 1870-1890

Laura Hirshfield

(Sociology)
Impression Management in the Navigation of Authority and Expertise: Graduate Students in Chemistry

Rebecca Kaufman

(Psychology)
Neural Correlates of Allopregnanolone and DHEA in Emotion Regulation

Carmen McCallum

(Education)
Understanding the Experiences of African American Students as they Journey to the Doctorate

Kristy Rawson

(Screen Arts and Cultures)
Looking With Lupe: The Mexican Spitfire’s s Guide to a (Mexican-) American Modernity Postponed

Gregory Storms

(Anthropology)
The Influences of Deindustrialization on the Queer Male Pornographic Industry

Joanna Tatomir

(Anthropology and Public Health)
The Role of Gender, Migrant Status, and Acculturation upon the Health Outcomes and Health Care Choices of Thai Women Living in Australia

Stephanie Teves

(American Culture)
"Bloodline is All I Need": Native Feminisms, Defiant Indigeneity, and the Promise of Hawaiian Hip-hop

Amanda Tillotson

(Social Work and Political Science)
Housing the Welfare Queen

2008-09

Lily Geismer

(History)
Don’t Blame Us: Grassroots Liberalism in Massachusetts, 1960-1990

Ann Victoria Bell

(Sociology)
Stratified Reproduction: The Intersection of Motherhood and Medical Ideologies in the Construction of Infertility

Jessica Wyse

(Sociology and Public Policy)
What a Difference Difference Makes? Gender in the Parole System

Kathryn Howell

(Psychology)
Assessing Psychological Functioning and Resilient Coping in Women and Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Christopher Odato

(Linguistics)
The Acquisition at Knowledge and Beliefs about English ‘like’

Natalie Sabik

(Women’s Studies and Psychology)
Exploring Body Satisfaction, Social Engagement, and Depression among Aging African American Women

Danielle Shapiro

(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
Family Ties: The Role of Biological Legitimacy, Stigma, and Sexual Orientation in Maternal Well-being

Jessi Streib

(Sociology)
Cross-Class Couples: A Study of the Lived Experiences of Class and Gender

Jennifer Torres

(Sociology)
Science, Medicine, and Milk: Healthcare Professionals and the Medicalization of Breastfeeding

Emily Bosk

(Social Work and Sociology)
Outside the Law: Rights-Based Education and Domestic Violence Survivors

Maria Esguerra

(History)
Interracial Romances of American Nationhood: Asian Americans, Immigration and Miscegenation Laws in the American West

Kristin Scherrer

(Social Work and Sociology)
Getting “Bi ” in the Family: Intergenerational Familial Relationships of Bisexual Individuals

Christina Woolner

(History)
The Formation of Black and White Lesbian Subcultures and Subjectivities through Popular American Performance, 1880-1930

2007-08

Abigail Aresty

(Music, Theatre & Dance)
Mask

Lynn Verduzco Baker

(Women’s Studies and Sociology)
Intersections of Race/Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina Experiences

Nicola Curtin

(Women’s Studies and Psychology)
What Makes the Political Personal?: Women’s Narratives of Identity, Connection, and Activism

Amy Carpenter Ford

(English Language and Literature and Education)
Constructing Classroom Authority across Difference

Katherine Gallagher

(Political Science)
The "Underrepresentation" of White Women Legislators: Understanding Differences in the Success of Women Candidates across Racial Groups

Tayana Hardin

(American Culture)
Desire, Disdain, and Dancing: Black American Vernacular Dance and the "New Woman" in Interwar Paris

Emily Kazyak

(Women’s Studies and Sociology)
LGBT Life in the Rural Midwest

Zakiya Luna

(Women’s Studies and Sociology)
Diverse Sisters, One Identity?: Forging Collective Identity in a Women of Color Social Movement Organization

Navaneetha Mokkil Maruthur

(Women’s Studies and English Language and Literature)
Disrupting the Figure of the "Kerala Woman": Shifting Discourses of Sexuality in the Post-Liberalization Era

Stephanie Osbakken

(Sociology)
The Social behind the Science: Negotiating Gender and Other Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Research in the Health Sciences

Laura Ramsey

(Psychology)
A Pyramidal Model of Sex Stereotyping

Kelly Sisson

(American Culture)
"King Corn" in American Culture, 1862-1936

2006-07

Carol Camlin

(Public Health)
HIV on the Move: Gender Differences in Migration, Sexual Behavior, and HIV Risk in South Africa

Katherine Drake

(Political Science)
Women as a Political Group: Defining How Women’s Opinions and Priorities Differ from Men’s

Sam Erman

(Law and American Culture)
A Dynamic Citizenship Worth Fighting For: Struggles around US Citizenship in Puerto Rico, 1898-1917

David Flores

(Sociology)
An Ethnographic Study of Day Labor Workers in Detroit, Michigan

Dagmar Francikova

(History and Women’s Studies)
Constructing the Gender Category of Women in the Czech National Movement before the 1848 Revolution: Complex and Complicated Matters

Janice Habarth

(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
Sexual Identity, Heteronormativity, and Authoritarianism in a Midwest Sample

Tayana Hardin

(American Culture)
Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Performances of Expatriation

Lauren LaFauci

(English Language and Literature)
Slavery and the Creation of Southern Nature, 1789-1865

Katherine Martineau

(Anthropology)
Publicizing the Private Sphere: Gender and Language in Indian News Media

Afia Ofori-Mensa

(American Culture)
Beauty, Bodies, and Boundaries: Pageants, Race, and National Identity

LaKisha Simmons

(History and Women’s Studies)
Black Girls Coming of Age: Race and Sexuality in Late Jim Crow South

Maria Cruz Soto

(History)
Inhabiting Isla Nena, 1514-2003: Time-Space Narrations and Imperial Dramas in Vieques, Puerto Rico

2005-06

Allison Abra

(History)
Now on with the Dance: Popular Culture and the People’s War in Britain, 1939-1945

Takeshia Brooks

(Communication Studies)
We Have a Hottentot History to Consider: The Quandaries of Black Women’s Representation in the Entertainment Industry

Pilar Horner

(Social Work and Sociology)
Safe at Home: Child-rearing and Employment Barriers in Home Sex Toy Parties

Lori Barer Ingber

(Public Health)
Racial Differences in Infertility Services Usage

Dana Levin

(Social Work and Psychology)
Messages about Gender, Sexuality, and Dating in Israel

Jennifer Palmer

(History and Women’s Studies)
Masters and Kinsmen: Gender, Race, and Slavery in 18th-Century La Rochelle

Carla Pfeffer

(Social Work, Sociology, and Women’s Studies)
An Exploratory Analysis of Women’s Romantic Relationships with Transmen/FtMs: Substance, Identity, and Support

Sai Samant

(Linguistics)
Language and Gender in the Adolescent Social Order

Tanya Saunders

(Sociology)
Citizenship, Exclusion, and Revolutionary Contradictions: Exploring Associative Space, Marginality, and Alienation in Contemporary Cuba

Jeannie Thrall

(Sociology)
Theorizing Home Schooling in America

Emily Wentzell

(Anthropology)
Viagra and Changing Masculinities in Mexico

Sarah Wilcox

(Art & Design)
Reclaiming the Gaze: Representing the Female Body in Contemporary Feminist Art

2004-05

Lindsay Benstead

(Political Science and Public Policy)
Gender Differences in Constituency Service and Representative Style among Algerian Legislators

Cara Bergstrom

(Sociology)
Same Gender Couples Deciding Whether and How to Have Children

Takeshia Brooks

(Communication Studies)
We Have a Hottentot History to Consider: The Quandaries of Black Women’s s Representation in the Entertainment Industry

Emma Crandall

(English Language and Literature and Women’s Studies)
Gertrude and Her Boys: Collaborative Friendship, Stylistic Influence, and Queer Affairs in the Modern World

L. Jill Lamberton

(Education and English Language and Literature)
Claiming an Education: The Transatlantic Performance and Exchange of Intellectual Identity in College Women’s Writing, 1860-1900

Jacoba Lilius

(Psychology)
How Everyday Helping among Nurses’ Aides Enables High-Quality Care in Alzheimer’s Special Care Units

Katherine Luke

(Social Work and Sociology)
Girls Gone Wild? Co-constructions of Gender, Partying, and Risk of Sexual Violence among Binge-drinking College Women

Christina Mendoza

(Sociology)
Crossing Borders: Narrative Identities of Gender, Class, and Citizenship among Domestic Workers on the U.S.-Mexican Border

2003-04

Beverly Araujo

(Social Work and Pyschology)
A Study of Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms among Dominican Immigrant Women

Andreea Boboc

(English Language and Literature)
Evidence and Feminine Authority in Late Medieval England 1389-1463

Taroobi Boulos

(Near Eastern Studies)
Arabic Prison Narrative Written by Women

Susanne Cohen

(Anthropology)
Secretaries, Selves, and Postsocialist Transformations: Gender and Work in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

Isabel Cordorva

(History)
Engendering a Modern Puerto Rico: Social Work Interventions in Juvenile and Family Crisis, 1950-1968

Jana Haritatos

(Psychology)
Embodying Intersections: The Role of Gender, Ethnic, and Cultural Stereotypes in Stress, Psychological Adjustment, and Physical Health

Clapperton Mavahunga

(History)
Great Limpopo Technopathogens: The Tsetse Fly and Firearm in a Transborder Southern African Landscape, 1850-1993

Jennifer Moon

(American Culture)
Gay Male Publics, Cultural Pedagogy, and Queer Counterpublicity

Cheri Phillip

(Psychology)
Understanding the Role of Empowerment in University Students Engaged in Social Justice/Activist Work

Ilka Rasch

(Germanic Languages and Literatures)
German Tales of Terror: Female Terrorists-Challenging Gender Politics and Political Discourses

Perry Silverschanz

(Social Work and Psychology)
Biculturally and Homosexualism: Exploring Intersections between Ethnic and Sexual Minority Research

Kelly Diane Williams

(English Language and Literature)
Globalizing American Domesticity: Gender, Race, Sex, and Place in Late 19th-Century American Literature

2002-03

Sawsan Abdulrahim

(Public Health)
Gender and Nexus of Identity and Economy: Arab Immigrant Women in Dearborn, Michigan

Monica Burguera

(Women’s Studies and History)
The Discursive Formation of the ‘Operaria’ as a Second-Class Worker: Gender, Class, and the Linguistic Tuen in 19th-Century Spain

Nadia Ali Muhammad Ali Charania

(Nursing)
Strategies Pakistani Women Use to Self Manage their Recurrent Depression

Rong Chen

(Education)
Understanding Gender-based Differences in Graduate Degree Completion

Kim Clum

(Social Work and Anthropology)
Relying on Personal Connections: An Ethnographic Exploration of the Role of Social Resources in Socioeconomic Mobility Prospects

Lindsey Custer

(Sociology)
Japanese-American Interethnic Marriages: The Influences of Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Role Expectations on Marital Quality

Katrina M. Fogleman

(Kinesiology)
Response of BMD to Walking in Postmenopausal Women

Janna Kim

(Psychology)
The Sexual Socialization of Asian American Women

Ann-Elise Lewallen

(Anthropology)
Cultural Activism and Political Mobilization in Japan: Ainu Women’s Strategies of ‘Indigenous’ in Hokkaido Prefecture

Hadley Z. Renkin

(Anthropology)
Ambiguous Citizens: Sexual Politics and ‘Civil Society’ in Postsocialist Hungary

Ting Wang

(Dentistry)
Female Reproductive Hormones and the Perception of Pain

Shannon Zenk

(Public Health)
Neighborhood Racial Composition and Poverty Level

2001-02

Laina Bay-Cheng

(Social Work and Psychology)
Safer Sex in Context Using the Rich Data Collected as Part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

Angie Beatty

(Communication Studies)
Queen Bitches: Exceptions to the Patriarchal Rule? Sexuality, Intrafemale Aggression, and Effects of Intragroup Perceptions of Black Females

Burcak Keskin

(Sociology)
Hats and Veils: Imagining the Nation’s Past and Future in Turkey

Emanuela Grama

(Anthropology and History)
Gendered Ideologies and Practices of Postsocialist Labor: Women Workers in Romania

Enid Logan

(Sociology)
Holy Sacraments and Illicit Encounters: Religiosity, Race, and Sex in Cuba, 1902-1940

Megan Moore

(Romance Languages and Literatures)
Rereading Acculturation: Gender, Trade, and Knowledge in Medieval French and Byzantine Romance

Elizabeth Otto

(History of Art and Women’s s Studies)
Memories of Bilitis: Marie Laurencin beyond the Cubist Context

Joel Purkiss

(Sociology)
White Masculinities and Their Idealized Others: Mapping Representations of Men of Color in British and US Boy Scout Handbooks, 1908-1939

Anna Smith

(History)
Citizens in the Cradle: The Politics and Culture of Infant Care in the United States, 1946-2000

Amy Stone

(Sociology)
To Be a Woman: A Comparative Study of Transgendered Inclusion within Women’s Communities in the United States and Japan

Edna Viruell-Fuentes

(Public Health)
Mexican Immigration and Health: The Role of Transnational Social Networks

Shannon White

(Slavic Languages and Literatures)
A World All Their Own: Popular Literature and the Adolescent Girl in Late Imperial Russia

2000-01

Alisa Braun

(English Literature and Language)
Becoming Authorities: Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1890-1940

Monica Burguera

(History)
Gender and Nation in 19th-Century Spain

Chao-Ju Chen

(Law)
Negotiate Women’s Rights in a Postcolonial Society: Women in the Family and under Law in Taiwan

John Collins

(Anthropology)
Residences and Residents: Gendered Moralities, Racialized Authenticity, and Cultural Patrimony in Brazil

Shawn Christian

(English Language and Literature and Education)
Practicing New Negro Uplift: An Analysis of Educational Work during the New Negro Renaissance

Anne Esacove

(Sociology)
Constructing Reproduction: Women’s Experiences with and Personal Meanings about Preventing Childbearing

Manjun Karki

(Public Health)
Aging and Health among Nepalese Women

Suzanne Knecht

(Nursing)
Dual-Method Users: A Feminist Approach

Tijana Krstic

(History)
Looking for the Common Ground: Women’s Contribution to the Inter-religious Dialogue in Early Ottoman Balkans

Sulakshana Mahajan

(Art & Architecture)
Evolving Attitudes and Effectiveness of Women’s Organization: Case Study of Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Melissa Peet

(Education and Women’s s Studies)
The Development of Critically Conscious Citizenship: Assessing Students’ Growth toward Agency and Activism

Carla Stokes

(Social Work)
Confronting Jezebel: Hip-Hop Culture as a Tool for Developing a Gendered Critical Analysis of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Young Women of Color

1999-2000

Carita Anderson

(Psychology)
The Impact of Fertility on Sexual Functioning and Self-Concept as a Mother of African American Women

Nicole Berry

(Anthropology)
The Production of Social Inequality and Its Effects on Women’s Reproductive Health

Gina Bloom

(English Language and Literature)
Choreographing Voice: Staging Gender in Early Modern English

Ruth Nicole Brown

(Political Science)
Performance as Political Action: A Black Feminist Epistemology

Laura Citrin

(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
Moralization of the Female Body in the US and The Netherlands

Naisargi Dave

(Anthropology)
The Nationalist Politics of Lesbian Sexuality in Modern India

Julie Eastin

(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
The Mothers of Sexually Abused Children: The Role of Gender in Meaning-making

Heidi Gjengdahl

(Art & Design)
Experimental Documentary Video

Leoneda Inge-Barry

(Natural Resources)
The Incidence of Environmental Waste and Hazards in Mobile, Alabama: The Case of AfricaTown, USA

Shawn Kimmel

(American Culture)
Manifest Domesticity?: Disciplines of Home and Rule in the Shaping of 19th-Century US Forms of Governmentality

Tiffany Marra

(Education)
Girls Software as Cultural Practice

Tasleem Padamsee-Garrett

(Sociology)
Contemporary AIDS Activism among US Women of Color

Sopin Sangon

(Nursing)
Predictors of Depression in Thai Women

Sondra Smith

(English Language and Literature)
Susan and Anna Warner’s Constitution Island Writings

Jennifer Stevens

(Communication Studies)
Sex and Consequences: Gender Differences in Sexual Rewards and Punishments in Popular Teen-Oriented Television

Susan Taichman

(Public Health)
The Effects of Depo Provera on the Magnitude of Gingival Disease in Lower SES Women

1998-99

Jane Baxter

(Anthropology)
The Archaeology of Childhood: Searching for the Children in the Archaeological Record

Jin Feng

(Asian Languages and Cultures)
Domestication Revisited: Figure of the "Stray" Women in Early 20th-Century Chinese Fiction (1900-1942)

Gisela Fosado

(Anthropology)
Visual Representations of Jineteras/os in Havana

Elizabeth Higgins and Christina Welter

(Public Health)
Girls’ Health

Ana Kuxhausen

(History)
Women, Science, and Society in Narratives of Russia’s Future: Public Debates about Women Doctors, 1872-1889

Irene Leung

(History of Art)
The Imaginary Frontier in Song Dynasty China (960-1279): Revisiting Lady Wenji’s "Barbarian Captivity and Return"

Nhi Lieu

(American Culture)
From Refugee to Bourgeoisie: Cultural Transformations of Vietnamese Identity through the Diaspora

Shannon Lynch

(Psychology)
The Impact of Partner Violence on Women’s Sense of Self: Can Work Buffer the Self?

Kristin McGuire

(History and Women’s Studies)
Meanings of "Emancipation" in Life of Helene Stocker

W. Flagg Miller

(Anthropology)
Engendering Tribalism: Yemeni Women’s Folk-Poetry

Carol Plummer

(Social Work and Psychology)
Mothers of Sexually Abused Children

Maria Swetman-Burland

(Classical Studies)
Depictions of Dancers: A Study of Etruscan Women and Class, Status, and Social Ritual

Christina Welter and Elizabeth Higgins

(Public Health)
Girls’ Health

Laura Wernick

(Social Work and Political Science)
Women on Welfare are Doin’ it for Themselves: Community-based Research Project on Living Wage Jobs in New York City

1997-98

Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren

(Nursing and Women’s Studies)
Gender Bias in Clinical Decision Making by Emergency Department Nurses

Sarah Bay

(Theatre & Drama)
Private Battles, Public Wars: The Public vs. the Private in the Performativity of Lesbian Leather Culture in America

Bethany Grenald

(Cultural Anthropology)
Gender and Ecological Change in a Japanese Fishing Community

Jacquelyn M. La New

(Kinesiology)
The Effect of Walking Speed on the Magnitude of Fat Loss in Postmenopausal Women

Alejandra E. Marchevsky

(American Culture)
Collaborative Project on Latina Immigrant Employment

Sherry L. Martin

(Political Science)
Trends in Women’s Community Participation and Falling Social Capital

Jonathan M. Metzl

(American Culture)
Prozac: The Social Construction of a Wonder Drug

Heather A. Meyer

(Education and Psychology)
Teachers’ Reasoning about School Violence: An Examination of Reasoning, Harm-Related Informational Assumptions, and Gender

Jennifer L. Mittelstadt

(History)
From Rehabilitation to Responsibility: Welfare, Work, and Gender, 1950 - 1962

Christine E. Montross

(English Language and Literature)
Taking Shape: A Reclamation of Dimension in Female Poetics

Leslie Paris

(American Culture and Women’s Studies)
Making Leisure: New York State Summer Camps, 1919-1941

Jeffrey J. Rangel

(American Culture)
The Judithe Hernandez Oral History Project

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