Award Winners

2023 Recipient

Katherine Walden, Associate Professor, American Studies

We are delighted to announce that this year’s recipient of the Marian Mullian Hancock Teaching Award is Professor Katherine Walden, Assistant Teaching Professor in American Studies. Professor Walden explores the intersection of sport and American culture, with a focus on baseball, labor, and globalization. Her research uses data analysis, visualization, and interactive digital mapping to illustrate the scale and scope of Minor League Baseball labor, as well as the historical forces and labor structures that shape Minor League players’ working conditions. The selection committee wrote: “Since her arrival at Notre Dame in 2020, Dr. Katie Walden’s teaching has been at the forefront in showing how Gender Studies at Notre Dame raises the pedagogical bar across disciplines. In lecture courses and seminars, Walden’s work bridges Data Science, Computing, Programming, Gender Studies, Sports Studies, and Media Studies. Reaching over 100 students a semester, Katie’s courses consistently challenge students to see computing and data through a feminist intersectional lens, and students report enormous joy and enduring insight in rethinking the clusters of ideas they bring into her classroom.”

Previous Recipients

2022

La Donna Forsgren, Associate Professor, Film, Television, Theatre

2021
Abigail Ocobock, Assistant Professor, Sociology

2020
Lindsey Breitwieser, Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender Studies Program

2019
Susan Cannon Harris, Professor, English Literature, and Gender Studies Concurrent Faculty

2018
Pam Butler, Associate Director, Gender Studies Program

2017
Janet Kourany, Associate Professor, Philosophy

2016
Abigail Palko, Associate Director, Gender Studies Program