Gender Studies 2020 Writing Award Results

Author: Gender Studies Program

Pen Writing Letter

Recipient of the 2020 Philip L. Quinn Gender Studies Outstanding Essay Award
Awarded to the student with the best undergraduate essay on a topic related to Gender Studies.

Terese Schomogyi
Colonization, Capitalism, and Gender-Based Violence in Indigenous Alaska
Major: Political Science/Minors: Honors Program, Sustainability, Peace Studies

Recipients of the 2020 Genevieve D. Willis Senior Thesis Award
Awarded to the Gender Studies major or minor judged to have produced the most outstanding senior thesis.

Isabel Weber
[                           ]: Meaningful Blankness in The Little Review
Major: English/Minors: Honors Program, Anthropology, Gender Studies
Advisor: Barbara Green

Eileen DiPofi
The Method on the Margins: Discourses of Authenticity and Method Acting in the United States
Major: Film, Television, and Theatre/Minor: Honors Program
Advisor: Pam Wojcik

Recipient of the 2020 G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Award - Essay
Awarded to a Gender Studies Graduate Minor with the best essay written for a graduate course on a topic related to Gender Studies.

Anne E. Crafton
Full of Rebaldrie, Scaldit in Scurrilittie;
Forbidden Topics and Gendered Language in the Freeing Verse of Flytings

Primary department affiliation: PhD Candidate Medieval Studies/Minor: Gender Studies
Course: Middle Scots Literature
Instructor: Tim Machan

Recipient of the 2020 G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Award – Article/Chapter
Awarded to a Gender Studies Graduate Minor with the best article (draft, under review, or published), dissertation chapter, or MA thesis chapter on a topic related to Gender Studies.

Patricia Bredar
 “A voyage of discovery” Reimagining the Walking Woman through 19th-Century Diaries

Primary department affiliation: PhD Candidate English/Minors: Gender Studies, Irish Studies

Congratulations to all of the winners!