The Women's Studies Program offers a prestigious Writing Award each year. The winning essay is chosen in a blind competition: two faculty readers from widely different fields read all the submissions, which can come from any field as long as they have a Women's Studies focus in either subject or methodology. We usually have a substantial and stong field of contenders for the $100 prize.
Some recent winners of the Women's Studies Writing Award include:
Alaina Carroll, 2003
"The Indispensable Pre-Modern Woman"
Annie Wagganer, 2002
"The Make-up of Plain Women: Understanding the Construction of Beauty and Body Image Among a Community of Amish Women"
Jennifer Kidd, 2001
Susan Davis, 2000
"Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh"
Honorable Mention: Lauren Schmidt
Reagan Lothes, 1999
"The Immaculate Conception of the Faerie Queene and Sir Walter Ralegh's Proposed Possession of Guiana: The Rape of Feminine Power"
Jennifer Nauck, 1998
"Written on the Body: A Discourse on Différance"
Corinne Wohlford, 1997
"She Who Holds Her Tongue: A Feminist Reading of Disney's The Little Mermaid"
Anne Ford, 1996
"'Great Things In Her Liberation': Manipulation and Revision in Hildegard's Scivias"
Erin Fox, 1995
"Entrance to and Exit from the Green World: The Feminine Condition in the Works of Colette"
Kim Snyder, 1995
"Factors Contributing to Women's Changing Representation in the House of Representatives, 1980-1994"
Gay Zoldesy, 1994
"Phallogocentrism: L'Ecriture Feminine"
Molly Wilkinson, 1993
"Catharine Beecher: Feminist"
Three of these recent winners are currently doing graduate work; one is working in public relations; one is beginning a year of teaching English in Japan.