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Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Fall 2024 Award Recipients

Arney Robinson Childs Student Award

Each year one student is presented with a $250 award in honor of Dr. Arney Robinson Childs, a lifelong educator and trailblazer for women. 

Recipient: Tristan Johnson 

Harriott Hampton Faucette Award

The Harriott Hampton Faucette Award is designed to assist Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate students with research and professional development. Proposals should be consistent with the research mission of Women’s and Gender Studies to reconceptualize knowledge, create new knowledge, and/or reinterpret existing knowledge through the lens of gender and the prism of diversity.

Recipient: Anne-Laure Sabathier for "The Expression of Self: Gender and Sexuality on Women College's Students' Diaries"

Emily Thompson Student Award

The Emily Thompson Award in Women’s and Gender Studies is designed to recognize the best graduate student research paper or project focusing on some aspect of women’s health.

Recipient: Kelsey I. M. Chapates for "Seeing Two Lines: Rhetorics of Pregnancy in Graduate School"

Josephine Abney Faculty Award

The Josephine Abney Faculty Award is designed to encourage cutting edge research that is solidly grounded in women's and gender studies perspectives. Proposals are invited which are consistent with the research mission of Women's and Gender Studies to reconceptualize knowledge, create new knowledge, and/or reinterpret existing knowledge about women and other underrepresented groups and their experiences through the lens of gender and the prism of diversity. The research should be interdisciplinary in nature or have interdisciplinary implications and should reflect a commitment to improving the status of women and other underrepresented groups.

Recipients: Cara Delay for "Abortion and Black Women's Health Networks in Pre-Roe South Carolina (1883-1973)" & Ashley Williard for "Raving Mad: White Womanhood, Criminality, and Carework"


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