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Past Awards

Graduate Student Research Awards

2007-2008 Recipients

Abigail Aresty, School of 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 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
Disrupting the Figure of the "Kerala Woman": Shifting Discourses of Sexuality in the Post-Liberalization Era

Stephanie Osbakken, Sociology
Resisting the Feminization of Science: A Hidden Challenge to Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Laura Ramsey, Psychology
A Pyramidal Model of Sex Stereotyping

Kelly Sisson, American Culture
"King Corn" in American Culture, 1862-1936

2006-2007 Recipients

Carol Camlin, Public Health - Health Behavior and Health Education
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, American Culture
A Dynamic Citizenship Worth Fighting For: Struggles Around U.S. 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

2005-2006 Recipients

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 - Health Behavior and Health Education
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 Eighteenth-Century La Rochelle

Carla Pfeffer, Social Work and 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

2004-2005 Recipients

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, Communications Studies
We Have a Hottentot History to Consider: The Quandaries of Black Women's Representation in the Entertainment Industry

Emma Crandall, English 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
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

2003-2004 Recipients

Beverly Araujo, Social Work & Pyschology
A Study of Perceived Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms among Dominican Immigrant Women

Andreea Boboc, English
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
Cultural Activism and Political Mobilization in Japan: Ainu Women's Strategies of 'Indigenous' in Hokkaido Perfecture

Ilka Rasch, Germanic Language & Literature
German Tales of Terror: Female Terrorists - Challenging Gender Politics and Political Discourses

Perry Silverschanz, Social Work & Psychology
Biculturally and Homosexualism: Exploring Intersections Between Ethnic and Sexual Minority Research

Kelly DianeWilliams, English
Globalizing American Domesticity: Gender, Race, Sex, and Place in Late Nineteeth-Century American Literature

2002-2003 Recipients

Sawsan Abdulrahim, School of Public Health, Health Behavior/Health Education
Gender and Nexus of Identity and Economy, Arab Immigrant Women in Dearborn, Michigan

Monica Burguera, Women's Studies History
The Discursive Formation of the 'Operaria' as a second class Worker: Gender, Class, and the Linguistic Tuen in Nineteenth Century Spain

Nadia Ali Muhammad Ali Charania, School of Nursing
Strategies Pakistani Women Use to Self-Manage their Recurrent Depression

Rong Chen, School of Education
Understanding Gender-Based Differences in Graduate Degree Completion

Kim Clum, School of Social Work Doctoral Program ( Joint Program in Social Work and Anthropology)
Relying on Personal Connections: an enthnographic 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, Div. of Kinesiology
Response of BMD to Walking in Post-menopausal 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 Perfecture

Hadley Z. Renkin, Anthropology
Ambigous Citizens: Sexual Politics and 'Civil Society' in post Socialist Hungary

Ting Wang, School of Dentistry Oral Health Sciences
Female Reproductive Hormones and the Perception of Pain

Shannon Zenk, Health Behavior and Health Education School of Public Health
Neighborhood Racial Composition and Proverty Level

2001-2002 Recipients

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 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 U.S. 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

2000-2001 Recipients

Alisa Braun, English Literature & 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 Post-Colonial 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 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, School of Public Health
Aging and Health Among Nepalese Women

Suzanne Knecht, School of 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, Rackham
Evolving Attitudes And Effectiveness of Women’s Organization:  Case Study of Stree Mukti Sanghatana

Melissa Peet
The Development of Critically Conscious Citizenship:  Assessing Student’s Growth Toward Agency and Activism

Carla Stokes, School of 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 Recipients

Carita Anderson, Clinical 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 It's Effects on Women's Reproductive Health

Gina Bloom, English
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 U.S. 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 and 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 Nineteenth-Century U.S. Forms of Governmentality

Tiffany Marra, Education
Girls Software as Cultural Practice

Tasleem Padamsee-Garrett, Sociology
Contemporary AIDS Activism Among U.S. 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, Epidemiology
The Effects of Depo Provera on the Magnitude of Gingival Disease in Lower SES Women

1998-1999 Recipients

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 Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (1900-1942)

Gisela Fosado, Anthropology
Visual Representations of Jineteras/os in Havana

Elizabeth Higgins (joint project with 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/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/Psychology
Mothers of Sexually Abused Children

Maria Swetman-Burland, Classical Art and Archaeology
Depictions of Dancers: a study of Etruscan women and class, status, and social ritual

Christina Welter (joint project with Elizabeth Higgins), Public Health
Girls' Health

Laura Wernick, Social Work/ Political Science
Women on Welfare are Do'in it for themselves: Community-based Research project on Living Wage Jobs in New York City

1997-1998 Recipients

Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, Nursing, Certificate in Women’s Studies
Gender Bias in Clinical Decision Making by Emergency Department Nurses

Sarah Bay, Theatre
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 Post-Menopausal 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 Wonderdrug

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, Certificate in 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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