Previous Recipients for the William C. Powers Award
2024-2025
2023-2024 Neha Yawalkar
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
2024-2025
2023-2024 Maggie DiSanza
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
2024-2025
2023-2024 Emily Mckinney
2022-2023 Alexandria Cunningham
2021-2022 Hnin Hnin Oo
2020-202 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
