2022 Scholarship Recipient
Themal Ellawalla, University of Illinois at Chicago, Anthropology
Dissertation Title: When Ephemera Bind: On Negative and Positive Space and Queer Relationality in Sri Lanka
2022 Honorable Mentions
Snehal Sharma, University of Kentucky, Gender and Women's Studies
Dissertation Title: Honor, Holiness and Hate: A Recipe for the Hindu Nation
Holly Genovese, UT Austin, American Studies
Dissertation Title: The South got Something to Say: Aesthetic Resistance to Incarceration in the Black South
2019 Scholarship Recipient
2019 , University of Maryland
Dissertation: Trans Worlding within: Decolonial Examinations of Trans of Color Interiority
2019 Honorable Mentions
Rosanna Simons, Texas Tech University
Dissertation: Documented: Queer Latinx Migrants Refusing Surveillance and Performing Recognition
Kenna Neitch, Texas Tech University
Dissertation: Persistence/Resistance: Gender, Testimony, and Organizing in Central America
2018 Scholarship Recipient
Jallicia Jolly, University of Michigan
Dissertation: I'm Not Sick!': A Critical Embodiment of Illness, Sexuality, & Self-Making among HIV-Positive Jamaican Women
2018 Honorable Mentions
Jaimee Swift, Howard University
Dissertation: On a Black Brazilian Radical Feminist Politics: Afro-Brazilian Women, Police Brutality and Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
Julia Gutierrez, Arizona State University
Dissertation: We identify as poor because of the money we earn not because of the way we live': Perceptions and Experiences of Poverty among Mexican Immigrant Women on the Southwest side of Chicago
2017 Scholarship Recipient
P. Michelle Morado Peters, University of Washington
Dissertation: Past, Present, Pachuca: La Pachuca Sexuality and the Formation of Identity
2017 Honorable Mention
Armaghan Ziaee, University of Cincinnati
Dissertation: Transnational Modernization and the Gendered Built Environment in Iran: Altering Architectural Spaces and Gender Identities in the Early Twentieth Century (1925-1941)
Karen Hanna, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Makibaka!: A Feminist Social History of the Transnational Filipina/o American Left From 1969-1992
2016 Scholarship Recipient
Sandibel Borges, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dissertation: Re-Creating Home: The Migration of Queer Latina Women
2016 Honorable Mention
Karen Lawford, University of Ottawa
Dissertation: Understanding the Experiences and Processes of Health Canada’s Evacuation Policy for Pregnant First Nations Women in Manitoba
Abraham Weil, University of Arizona
Dissertation: Trans Versality: Anti Black Racism, Trans Politics and Molecular Revolution
2015 Scholarship Recipient
Elizabeth Verklan, University of Arizona
Dissertation: Objects of Desire: Feminist Inquiry, Transnational Feminism and Global Fashion
2015 Honorable Mention
Krystal Cleary, Krystal Cleary
Dissertation: Mainstream Sideshow: Disability and Freak Discourse in Popular Culture
Cristina Perez, University of Maryland
Dissertation: Bodies on the Line: Violence, Disposable Subjects, and the Border Industrial Complex
2014 Scholarship Recipient
Rosemary Ndubuizu, Rutgers University
Dissertation: Where Shall The Monsters Live? Tracking Undeserving Poor Discourses in Affordable Housing Debates
2014 Honorable Mention
Noralis Rodriguez-Coss, University of Washington
Dissertation: Feminist Street Performances in Puerto Rico: Alternative Imaginaries of the Ideal National Body
2013 Scholarship Recipient
Emek Ergun, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dissertation: Doing Feminist Translation as Local and Transnational Political Activism: The Turkish Translation and Reception of Virgin: The Untouched History
2012 Scholarship Recipient
Xiumei Pu, University of Minnesota
Dissertation: Decolonizing Knowledge Production: Eco Spiritual Literary Criticism and Literature by Chinese Women in Diaspora
2012 Honorable Mention
Carly Thomsen, University of California, Santa Barbara