Recipients

List of Previous CWGS Student Award Recipients

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

The Ellen Clarke Temple Graduate Award for the Study of Women in History

(This award is retired. In 2017, the Temple Award moved from CWGS to the Department of History.)

2015-2016 Sierra Salazar: Storefront Speculations: Examining the Specter of Community Healing Spaces
2013-2014 Lady Anima Adjepong: Imagined lives in diaspora: Gender, race, and sexuality in the lives of black African women immigrants to the United States
2012-2013 Chyna Bowen: From Slave to Convict: Criminalized Women of the Antebellum South
2011-2012 Lizeth Elizondo: 'Til Death Do Us Part?: Cohabitation and Broken Betrothals in the Northern Spanish Colonial Borderlands 1680-1778
2010-2011 Valerie Martinez: World War II Texas Latina Servicewomen: Racializing and Gendering International Politics
2010-2011 Rebecca McEntee: Graphic vs Non-Graphic War Photography, and Women's Input
2009-2010 Angela Howard Frederick: Rethinking the Confidence Gap: Race, Community Activism, and Women’s Paths to Public Office
2009-2010 Jennifer Lynn Kelly: 19th Century Race and Reproduction: James Rowan Percy’s 1857-1859 Obstetrical Case Record Book
2008-2009 Leah Deane: Sex and Radical Pollitics: The Politicalization of Sex and Sexuality in the New Left in Berkeley and Austin
2008-2009 Amanda Moulder: Lock Up Your Daughters: Gender and Literacy in Cherokee Territory at the Brainerd Mission School, 1817-1838
2007-2008 Caroline Hopkins Wigginton: Intimate Words: Women’s Writing and Community in Eighteenth-Century America
2007-2008 John F. Cline: Theoretical Girls: The Origins of Third Wave Feminism in the Post-Punk Lower East Side
2007-2008 Gretchen Elizabeth Voter: Historical Memory as Political Activism: The Foundation for Women's Resources and the Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in Texas
2006-2007 Meredith Bagley: Protecting Purity: Gender, Amateurism, and Competitive Women's Sports at UT Austin
2006-2007 Brenda Sendejo: Locating Feminista Spiritualities: Chicana Activist and Spiritual Formation in Texas
2006-2007 Jennifer Eckel: Community and Communitarianism: Texas, Utopia, and the Woman's Commonwealth
2005-2006 Lilia Roquel D. Rosas: (De)sexing Prostitution: Race, Politics, and the Reform of Sex Work in Progressive San Antonio, 1889-1920
2002-2003 Kelley M. Reidt: The Texas Cyclone: Anna J.H. Pennybacker
2001-2002 Jennifer Rose Najera: Texas Mexican Women in the Desegregation of the South Texas

WGS Graduate Student Dissertation Awards

2022-2023 Caroline Kraft
2022-2023 Erika Slaymaker
2021-2022 Jamie O'Quinn
2020-2021 Candice Lyons
2019-2020 Katie Rogers
2018-2019. Ruije Peng
2017-2018 Delynn Parker: Trails of Tears and Freedom: Slavery, Migration, and Emancipation in the Indian Territory Borderlands, 1830-1907
2016-2017 Brandon Andrew Robinson: OUTcasts: LGBTQ Youth Homelessness in the Urban South
2015-2016 Amina Riad Zarrugh: Only God Knows: The Emergence of a Family Movement Against State Violence in Libya
2014-2015 Caitlyn Collins: Work-Family Policies and Working Mothers: A Comparative Study of Germany, Sweden, Italy and the United States
2014-2015 Sarah Nicholus: The Production of Queer Space in the Festas Juninas of Northeastern Brazil
2013-2014 Kristine M. Kilanski: Gender and Work in an Economic Boom
2012-2013 Zazil Elena Reyes Garcia: Women politicians in political cartoons: A comparative analysis between Mexico and the United States
2011-2012 Lynn Selby: The Collective Dimensions of the Ethic of Care: Women's Political Subject- Making in Martissant, Haiti
2010-2011 Courtney Morris: To Defend This Sunrise: Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Community Activism and Political Subjectivity, 1990-2010
2010-2011 Corinne Reczek: Gender and "Heath Work" in Long-Term Gay, Lesbian, and StraightCouples
2009-2010 Claudia Cervantes-Soon: Schooling in Times of Dystopia: Empowering young Women inJuarez
2009-2010 Nandini Dhar: Only My Revolt is Mine: Female Heroism, Counter Violence and Gendered Resistance in Contemporary Texts of Slavery
2008-2009 Catherine Connell: School’s Out: A Qualitative Exploration of Workplace Sexuality Through the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Teacher
2008-2009 Megan Reid: Housing Inequality: Race, Gender, and Hurricane Katrina Housing Policy
2007-2008 Allison Layne Parish Craig: Birth Control Movement Rhetoric in Women’s Literature, 1915-1939
2007-2008 Christina Leigh Murphey: Oral Health Among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescent Women: A Mixed Methods Study.
2006-2007 Kimberly Hamlin: Beyond Adam's Rib: How Darwinian Evolution Redefined Gender and Influenced American Feminist Thought, 1870-1920
2006-2007 Julie Reid: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nation in Bolivian Education
2005-2006 Sandra Benavidez-Vaello: The Interplay of Diabetes, Culture and Food for Mexican- American Women
2002-2003 Alexandra Barron: Unnatural Unions: The Queer National Romance in Postcolonia Literature and Film
2002-2003 Lisa Kearney: Hispanic and Caucasian Students' Experience of Sexual Harassment: The Intertwining of Power and Culture
2001-2002 Jill Rader: Feminish Critiques of a Historical Power Imbalance Between Therapists and Clients
2001-2002 Deanna Shoemaker: Queers, Monsters, Drag Queens, and Whiteness: Unruly Femininities in Feminist Performance Art
2000-2001 Paula Sanmartin: With My Own Voice, in My Own Place: (Re)Construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing
2000-2001 Mindy Bravo: A Psychosocial/ Educational Intervention for Decreasing Gender Stereotypes in Technology
2000-2001 Rebecca Lorins: Inheritance: Kinship and African Literatures
2000-2001 Patricia Richards: (Re)sppropriating Citizenship: Mapuche and Pobladora Women and the Chilean State
1999-2000 Julie Garbus: Service and Learning at the Turn of Two Centuries: Lessons from Vida Scudder
1999-2000 Maribel Garcia: Women's Subjectivity, Structural Inequality and Borderlands Ethnography
1999-2000 Sharon Mastracci: Labor Pains: Employment Policy and Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor
1999-2000 Margaret Taylor: Health Experiences of Homeless Adolescent Women
1998-1999 Maureen Reed: Her Spirit Knew No Borders:New Mexican Women and Literary Autobiography, 1930-1965
1998-1999 Sarah J. Walker: The Meaning of Consent: College Women's and Men's Experiences with Nonviolent Sexual Coercion
1996-1997 Elizabeth Claudine: Women and Math: How Stereotypes Impair Performance
1996-1997 Scarlet Bowen: The Labor of Femininity: Working Women in Eighteenth-Century British Prose

WGS MA Student Thesis Award

2022-2023 Jessica Olson
2021-2022 Appolonia Chukwu
2021-2022 Joseph Tibiru
2020-2021 Keaton Gaughan
2019-2020 Faith Williams
2018-2019 Mac Irvine
2018-2019 Shawntal Brown
2017-2018 Madyson Crawford: "We Knew to Stay in Our Lane!": Southern Black Women's Politics of Belonging (Dis)Belonging.
2017-2018 Vivian Deidre Rodriguez Rocha: Styling binds: Transnational place-making and intimate labor at a Mexican beauty parlor in South Austin
2016-2017 Hayley Morgenstern: Genealogies of Trauma: The Inheritance of Hysteria
2015-2016 Briana Barner: The Creative (& Magical) Possibilities of Digital Black Girlhood
2014-2015 Kaitlyn Newman: Refusing the rent to (re)make space; Feminist geographic perspectives on the Sunset Park Rent Strike
2013-2014 Patena Starlin Key: No Such Thing as Gender?: Black Vernacular, Sex and Street Lit
2012-2013 Victoria Dominguez: Between the Borderlands of Life and Death: A Spiritual and Intellectual Journey Towards Developing Conocimiento
2011-2012 Amelia Koford: 'Strong Views About What You Call Things': How Disability Studies Scholars Interact with Information Classification Systems
2011-2012 Lorena Siller: Ni Domesticas, Ni Putas: Sexual Harrassment in the Lives of Female Household Workers in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon