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204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI
48109–1290
Phone: 734–764–9537
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Past Recipients
From a series, Don't Call Me a Bra Burner, digital photography by U-M student Jocelyn Diebolt, 2010, for a class taught by Prof. Carol Jacobsen.
Winter 2011
Naomi Andre
(Women’s Studies and Residential College)
South African Opera Today: Princess Magogo and Winnie
Tabbye Chavous
(School of Education and Combined Program in Education and Psychology)
African American Women in STEM: Considering Issues of Race, Gender, and Academic Identity
Rita Chin
(History)
European Feminists and the Gendered Discourse on Immigrant Muslim Women
Clare Croft
(Dance)Funding Footprints: US State Department Sponsorship of International Dance Tours
Barbara DeWolfe
(William L. Clements Library)Women in History Project
Robin Edelstein
(Psychology)
Neuroendocrine and Psychological Changers in Heterosexual and Lesbian Couples during the Transition to Parenthood
Holly Hughes
(School of Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)
Standing Heat
Petra Kuppers
(English, Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)
Women’s Disability Culture Poetry: Experimental Women’s Writing, Somatic Engagement, and Practice-As-Research
Sara McClelland
(Psychology and Women’s Studies)
Understanding the Intimacy and Sexual Quality of Life Concerns of Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Fall 2010
Maria Cotera
(Women’s Studies and Program in American Culture)
Chicana Por Mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism
(1965–85)
Rockefeller Oteng and Richard Redman
RO-Emergency Medicine, RR-Nursing
Nursing Roles and Attitudes in Kusami, Ghana: An Exploratory Study
Megan Sweeney
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)
The Gardener Who Prepared the Soil: Sadie Peterson Delaney—Librarian and Bibliotherapist.
2010
Alexis Bravos
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Hepworth
Lilia Cortina
(Psychology and Women's Studies)Hostile Work Experiences: Undermining the Careers of Women in Leadership
Derek Griffith
(Public Health)African American Masculinities and Chronic Illness
Deborah Keller-Cohen
(Linguistics and Women's Studies)Language, Social Engagement, and Cognition in Aging: A Pilot Study
Sara Konrath
(Institute for Social Research, Social Psychology)Do Issues or Relational Bonds Matter More in Political Giving Behavior
Victor Mendoza
(Women's Studies and English Language and Literature)Negroes Going Native: Racial Drag and African American Disidentification with Philippine Insurrectos
Tiya Miles
(Program in American Culture, History, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, Native American Studies Program)Our Mothers' Gardens (a novel of historical fiction)
Beth Glover Reed
(Social Work and Women's Studies)Addressing Both Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol and Other Drugs: Field Analyses of Contested Spaces
Mary Rigdon
(Political Science)The Role of Expectations and Gender in Altruism
Richard M. Tolman
(Social Work)The Meaning and Impact of Prenatal Ultrasound for First-Time Fathers: Effects on Paternal-Fetal Attachment, Motivation to Parent, and Positive Support towards Their Partners
Valerie Traub
(English Language and Literature and Women's Studies)Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West: Anatomy, Cartography, and the Prehistory of Normality
Ruth Tsoffar
(Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature)Cannibal Ideology: Sexuality, Ethnicity, and Colonialism in Hebrew Cultures
2009
Pamela Aronson
(Behavioral Sciences–Dearborn)Breaking Barriers or Locked Out? How Nontraditional Students Experience College
Holly Hughes
(Art & Design, Theatre & Drama, and Women’s Studies)The Wedding Project: Let Them Eat Cake
Heidi Kumao
(Art & Design)Timed Release
Petra Kuppers
(English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies, and Theatre & Drama)Women’s Disability Culture Poetry
Jody Lori
(Nursing)Liberian Women’s Experience of Hospital Birth
Brenda K. Marshall
(English Language and Literature)What’s a Heaven For : An Intervention into the Publishing Industry
Terri Sarris
(Screen Arts & Culture)loose threads
Michelle L. Segar
(IRWG)The Framing of Physical Activity by Clinicians Impacts Patient Self-Objectification, Motivation, and Participation
Julia Seng
(Nursing, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and IRWG) and Janis Miller (Nursing and Obstetrics & Gynecology)Could the "Love Hormone," Oxytocin, Be a Mechanism of Pain in Pelvic Tissue?
Rebecca Thornton
(Economics)Women, Circumcision, and HIV Prevention
Mieko Yoshihama
(Social Work)Developing Community-Driven, Socioculturally Relevant Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Program: Multi-Method Assessment of Hamtramck Bangladeshi Community
2008
Amy Sara Carroll
(Program in American Culture and English Language and Literature)Descubrir el hilo negro: The Allegorical Performative in Post-NAFTA Cultural Production from Mexico and the United States
Tamar Carroll
(History)Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building for Social Change in New York City
Carol Jacobsen
(Art & Design, Women’s Studies, and Program in American Culture)Imagine Freedom: Women, Incarceration, and Resistance
Reshma Jagsi
(Medicine)Representation of Women and Minorities in Medical Research: Associations with Researcher Gender and Funding Source
Artemis Leontis
(Classical Studies)Intellectual Biography of Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Lydia Li
(Social Work)Gender and Elder Care in China
Lisa Kane Low
(Nursing, Women’s Studies, and Obstetrics & Gynecology)Implementing Active Management of Third Stage Labor in Rural Honduras to Prevent Post-Partum Hemorrhage
Deborah Sampson
(Nursing)An Historical Analysis of State Legislation and Nurse Practitioner Practice Acts: Professional Nursing, Gendered Work Autonomy, and Health Policy
Terri Sarris
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Ruth Adler Schnee: Michigan Modernist (A Documentary Portrait of Modernism Designer Ruth Adler Schnee)
Elizabeth Wingrove
(Political Science and Women's Studies)The Ancien Régime of Letters
Susan Wright
(IRWG and Residential College)Feminist Theory and Arms Control
2007
Barbara DeWolfe
(William L. Clements Library)Women in History—Public Databases
Lawrence LaFountain-Stokes
(Program in American Culture and Romance Languages and Literatures)Translocas and Transmachas: Trans Diasporic Puerto Rican Drag
Anna Kirkland
(Women’s Studies and Political Science)Law and Social Change through Father's Rights: A Preliminary Inquiry
Janis Miller
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Urine Chemistries to Objectively Document Effect of Beverage Intake Modifications on Symptoms of Overactive Bladder
Louise O'Brien
(Neurology)Sleep-Disordered Breathing as a Risk Factor for Preeclampsia
Heather O'Mahen
(Behavioral Sciences, UM-Flint)Barriers to Mental Health Treatment Use in Depressed Pregnant Women
Ami Pflugrad-Kackischm
(History)Brothers of a Vow: Secret Fraternal Orders and White Male Political Culture in Antebellum Virginia
Shachar Pinsker
(Near Eastern Studies)The "Meager" Gifts of Anne Kleiman: Hebrew Poetry by Women in America
Elizabeth Roberts
(IRWG and Anthropology)Disturbed Sex: Biomedicine and the Determination of Ambiguous Genitalia in Ecuador
Xiomara Santamarina
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)Genealogical and Historical Research on Eliza Potter, African American Hairdresser and Author of A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life (1859)
Ruth Scodel
(Classical Studies)Feminism and Classics V: Bringing It All Back Home
Martha Sheil
(Music)Margaret Harshaw: A Tribute to Her Vocal Legacy through Interviews and Observations with Distinguished Teacher/Artists
Sapna Taggar
(Education)Nurturing Tradition, Embracing Modernity: Muslim Girls' Quest for Identity in the Post September 11 Era
Amy Young
(IRWG)Peer Rejection among Girls as a Risk Factor for Sexual Harassment and Assault
2006
Amal Fadlalla
(Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies)Transcending the Nation: Engendering Muslim-Sudanese Identities in America
Jessica Fogel
(Theatre & Dance)Where the Book Falls Open: An Evening of Dance
David Halperin
(English Language and Literature and Women's Studies) and Valerie Traub (English Language and Literature and Women's Studies)Gay Shame
Jennifer Hardacker
(Screen Arts & Cultures)Bringing the Voices of HIV Positive Caribbean Women to the Discourse on Gender and the Epidemic
Lisa Harris
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Risk Distortions in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nancy Hunt
(History and Obstetrics & Gynecology)Accra Re-Mix: Bodies, Gender, and Knowledge in a West African City
Katherine Ibbett
(Romance Languages and Literatures)Imagining Compassion: Literature and Fellow-Feeling in Early Modern France
Michelle Kees
(Psychiatry and Psychology)Interpersonal Trauma in Mothers: The Differential Impact of Post Trauma Symptoms on Sons and Daughters
Anna Kirkland
(Political Science and Women's Studies)Legal and Medical Consciousness among Fat Rights Activists and Members of Overeaters Anonymous
Lynda Lisabeth
(Neurology)Gender and Acute Stroke Presentation: Do Women with Stroke Present Differently than Men with Stroke?
Karin Martin
(Sociology and Women's Studies)The ABCs of the Birds and the Bees: The Sexual Socialization of Young Children
Tamiko Noll
(Nursing)An Ethnography of Preeclampsia: A Cultural Analysis of High-Risk Pregnancy, Disease, and Physical Activity
Megan Sweeney
(English Language and Literature and Center for Afroamerican and African Studies)Doing Time, Reading Crime: Cultures of Reading in Women's Prisons
Anjel Vahratian
(Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Studies)Maternal Morbidity Associated with Infertility Treatment
2005
Elizabeth Cole
(Center for Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies)African American Debutantes: The Self-conscious Construction of Femininity, Race, and Class
Pamela Davis Kean
(IRWG)The Influence of Race and Gender in Information Technology Careers
Ruth Dunkle
(Social Work)Mothers of Adult Daughters with a Serious Mental Illness: The Experience of African Americans and Whites
Deborah Keller-Cohen
(Linguistics, Women's Studies, and Education)Gender and Family Interaction Strategies in People over 85 with Low and High Family Contact
Scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham? a collaborative performance, directed by Prof. Holly Hughes and commissioned by IRWG
Holly Hughes
(Art & Design, Theatre and Drama, Women's Studies)Who’s Afraid of Virginia Ham?
Catherine Kim
(Obstetrics & Gynecology and Internal Medicine)Support and Advice for Gestational Exercise and Diet (SAGE)
Maria Montoya
(History and Program in American Culture)Creating an American Home: Work, Property, and Paternalism on the American Landscape, 1900–1960
Nadine Naber
(Program in American Culture and Women's Studies)Arab San Francisco: On Gender, Cultural Citizenship, and Belonging
Divya Patel
(Obstetrics & Gynecology)Utilization of Emergency Contraception: Disentangling Barriers and Improving Access for Women
Denise Sekaquaptewa
(Psychology)Gender Stereotypes in the Math Classroom: Assessment, Consequences, and an Intervention
Antonia Villarruel
(Nursing)Exploration of Abused Latina Women's HIV Risk Factors and Perceptions: Basis for Development of a Culturally Sensitive HIV Prevention Program