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Recipients

Previous Recipients for the William C. Powers Award

  • 2022-2023 - Phong Le
  • 2021-2022 - Aloysie Mutoniwase Kwizera 
  • 2020-2021 - Adrienne Hunter
  • 2019-2020 - Joshua Tadeo
  • 2018-2019 - Lorrie Madely Maldonado

Previous Recipients for the Cynthia Walker Peña Award in Women's and Gender Studies

 

  • 2022-2023  ClaraGrace Pavelka
  • 2021-2022   Tasnim Islam 
  • 2019-2020    Sophia Abbas
  • 2018-2019    Thuy-Lynn Ngoc Huynh 
  • 2017-2018    Khamsin L. Meadows
  • 2016-2017    Jeanette Celine Pacheco
  • 2015-2016    Marilyn Nicole Adams
  • 2014-2015    Katelyn "Katie" Burran
  • 2014-2015    Andy Escobar
  • 2013-2014    Karen Duke
  • 2012-2013    Rebecca Besaw
  • 2011-2012     Julie Bolanos
  • 2010-2011     Darcy Kues
  • 2009-2010    Jamie Doak
  • 2009-2010    Maggie Cheu
  • 2008-2009    Sara Haji
  • 2006-2007    Katherine Burk
  • 2005-2006    Anya Rous
  • 2000-2001    Mary E. Sylvester
  • 1999-2000    Gina Velasco
  • 1998-1999    Katherine Aldridge
  • 1996-1997    Laura Helton

Previous Recipients for the Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender

  • 2022-2023     Alexandria Cunningham
  • 2021-2022     Hnin Hnin Oo
  • 2020-2021     Lily Kunda
  • 2019-2020    Joseph Tibiru
  • 2018-2019    Shannon Maolone Gonzales
  • 2017-2018    Zaria El-Fil: Sexual Exploitation and Resistance of Enslaved Women”
  • 2016-2017   William Mosley: Can the ATLien Speak? Gender, Race, and Politics of Performance in Contemporary Hip Hop
  • 2014-2015    Alfred Martin, PhD Student, Radio-Television-Film:  Scripting Black Gayness: Television
  • Authorship in Black-Cast Sitcoms
  • 2013-2014    Oluwakanyinsola ("Kanyinsola") Oluwademilade  Obayan: State Violence, Radical Protest and the black/African Female Body
  • 2012-2013    Brandon Robinson, PhD Student, Sociology: 'The Beauty of Online Dating’: Quotidian
  • Practices of Sexual Racism on a Gay Dating Site
  • 2011-2012    Wanjira Wurimi: The Construction of "Disposable" in the Disposable Woma
  • 2010-2011    Ganiva Reyes: "It's not because I wanted it...I knew I wasn't ready": Young Mothering Teens in the Borderlands Speak Out About the Pressures of Sex, Love and Relationships
  • 2009-2010    Harmony Eichsteadt: The (re)Production of Slaves: Why Our Economy Depends on theIncarceration of Pregnant Black Women
  • 2008-2009    Jennifer Karas Montez: Race and Ethnic Differences in Health Insurance Coverage Among
  • Women: The Intersecting Roles of Employment, Marriage and Motherhood
  • 2008-2009    Anna Stewart Kerr: Revising “Harriet Jacobs"
  • 2006-2007    Nicki Alam: The Impact of International Justice Mechanism on Ethnic Conflict in Northern
  • Uganda
  • 2006-2007    Reena Patel: Working the Night Shift: Gender and the Global Economy
  • 2005-2006    Scottie Buehler: Contraception and Identity Construction: Family Planning Policy in Egypt
  • 2002-2003    Yolanda Escobar-Rodriguez:  Race, Resistance, and Urban Politics from a Cinema
  • Perspective
  • 2001-2002    Geeti Mahajan: Iran 2001
  • 2000-2001    Jen'nan Ghazal Read: Coming to America: Ethnicity, Culture, and Labor Force Participation among Arab-American Women
  • 1999-2000    Daniela Bwyer