Awards

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2023

Yuri Fraccaroli, "The Archive and the cafezinho: Challenging (disembodied) histories by embodied archival experiences at Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in Brazil"

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2022

Alex Mireles, “Paisa Aesthetics: Streetwear Fashion and Latinx Aesthetic Labor”

Distinguished Service Award 2022

Alex Mireles, Graduate Student Representative
Vivi Valle and Amoni Thompson, Graduate Student Representatives on Search Committees

Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award 2022

Emma Schuster and Kimberly Soriano

Honorable mention, last year's awardee: AP Pierce

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2021

Jordan Tudisco, “A Woman is Someone with a Female Body and Any Personality…Not a ‘Female Personality’ and Any Body”: Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism & Transphobic Hate Speech in Progressive Academia

Distinguished Service Award 2021

Katie Von Wald, Graduate Student Representative
Stephanie Kaylor, Graduate Student Representative

Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award 2021

Alex Mireles
AP Pierce

Feminist Studies Remote Teaching Assistance Award 2021

Anita Stahl

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2020

Megan Spencer, "Oceanic Opacities: Black Femme Aesthetics & Queer Flow"

Distinguished Service Award 2020

Bella Restrepo,Graduate Student Representative, Queer Migrations Search Committee
Anna Wald, Feminist Studies, Graduate Student Representative

Distinguished Teaching Award 2020

Anna Wald, Feminist Studies, Graduate Student Representative

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2019

Cierra Sorin, Sociology and Feminist Studies doctoral emphasis student

Distinguished Service 2019

Allison Pierce, Feminist Studies
Jordan Victorian, Feminist Studies

Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize 2018

Anita Stahl, Feminist Studies

Distinguished Service 2018

Emma Schuster, Feminist Studies
Amoni Thompson, Feminist Studies

NWSA Graduate Scholarship, 2016

Sandibel Borges, Feminist Studies

Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, 2016

Sylvanna M. Falcon, Sociology

Esther Ngan-ling Chow and Maryjoyce Green Dissertation Scholarship, 2016

Karen Hanna, Feminist Studies

Women, Gender, and Social Justice | Intersectional and Global Research Award

2014–15

Karen Hanna, Feminist Studies
Shawn Warner-Garcia, Feminist Studies

University Award of Distinction

2013–14

Carly Thomsen, Feminist Studies

Distinguished Service Awards

2018–2019

Allison Pierce, Feminist Studies
Jordan Victorian, Feminist Studies

2017–2018

Emma Schuster, Feminist Studies
Amoni Thompson, Feminist Studies

2016–2017

Chelsea Jones, Feminist Studies

2014–15

Laura Tanner, Feminist Studies

2013–14

Laura Tanner, Feminist Studies

2012–13

Lauren Clark, Feminist Studies

2011–12

Leigh Dodson, Feminist Studies

2010–11

Carly Thomsen, Feminist Studies

2009–10

Joan Budesa , Sociology
Denise Gill-Gürtan, Music
Adrianna Santos, Chicana/o Studies

2008–09

Alison Crossley, Sociology

2007–08

Tracy Royce, Sociology

Distinguished Graduate Teaching Awards

2018–2019

Sarah Jane Pinkerton, Feminist Studies
Megan Spencer, Feminist Studies 

2016–2017

Anita Stahl, Feminist Studies

2013–14

Kristin Conover, Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology

2012–13

Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies
Leigh Dodson, Feminist Studies
Meredith Heller, Theater & Dance

2011–12

Melissa Barthelemy, History

2010–11

Ryan Bowles, Film & Media Studies

2008–09

Michelle Baca, Chicana/o Studies
Tracy Royce, Sociology
Cristina Serna, Chicana/o Studies

2007–08

Janiene Langford, History

2006–07

Lachelle Hannikel, French

Previous Winners of the Charlotte Stough Memorial Prize

2017

Chloe Diamond-Lenow

Feminist Studies
Stough Prize, 2017

2014

Carly Thomsen

Feminist Studies
Stough Prize, 2014
"The Post-Raciality and Post-Spatiality of Calls for LGBTQ and Disability Visibility."

2013

Amanda Phillips

English
Stough Prize, 2013:
"Techonology: Making a Face."

2012

Amanda Phillips

English
Stough Prize, 2013:
"Techonology: Making a Face."

2011

Amanda Denes

Communication
Stough Prize, 2011:
"Biology as Consent: Problematizing the Scientific Approach to Seducing Women's Bodies."
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences, University of Connecticut

2010

Justin Bengry

History
Co-Winner, Stough Prize, 2010:
"Queer Profits: The Popular Press, Homosexual Scandal, and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain."
2010-2012: Elizabeth and Cecil Kent Post Doctoral Fellowship in History, University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada

Denise Gill

Music
Co-Winner, Stough Prize, 2010:
"Melancholy, Turkish Classical Music, and the Making of Men with Muhabbet."
2010-11: Visiting Instructor, Ethnomusicology, College of William and Mary

2009

Bianca Murillo

History
Stough Prize, 2009:
"Ideal Homes and the Gender Politics of Consumerism in Postcolonial Ghana, 1960-70." Subsequently published in Gender and History 21.3 (November 2009): 560-575.
Currently Assistant Professor of History, Willamette University

2008

Katrina Kimport

Sociology
Stough Prize, 2008:
"Citing and Disrupting: An Analysis of the Discursive Production of Gender and Sexuality in Lesbian Marriage Photographs."
Currently Qualitative Sociologist, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), University of California, San Francisco

2007

Karl E. Bryant

Sociology
Stough Prize, 2007:
"In Defense of Gay Children?: 'Progay' Homophobia and the Production of Homonormativity." Subsequently published in Sexualities 11.4 (2008): 455-475. Paper was also co-winner of the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award, Sexuality Studies Division of the American Sociological Association.
Currently Assistant Professor, Sociology and Women's Studies, State University of New York, New Paltz

2006

Leandra Zarnow

History
Stough Prize, 2006:
"Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug and the Fight for Civil Rights, 1948-1951." Subsequently published as "Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug, the Legal Left, and Civil Rights Innovation, 1948-1951" in Law and Social Inquiry 33.4 (2008): 1003-1041. Paper was also co-winner of the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Competition of the journal Law and Social Inquiry, and winner of the Judith Ridge Prize for Best Article from the Western Association of Women's Historians.
2010: Post-doctoral fellowship, Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tamiment Library, New York University

2005

Susan Keller

English
Stough Prize, 2005:
"Statuesque Beauty: The Porcelain Complexion and the Gilded Age."
Currently Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Literature and Languages, East Tennessee State University

2004

Molly Talcott

Sociology
Stough Prize, 2004:
"Gendered Webs of Development and Resistance." Subsequently published as "Gendered Webs of Development and Resistance: Women, Children, and Flowers in Bogota." Signs 29.2 (2004): 465-489.
Currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Los Angeles

Carolyn Herbst Lewis

History
Honorable Mention, 2004:
"Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and National Security in the United States, 1950-1969." Subsequently published as "Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War." Journal of Women's History 17.4 (2005): 86-110. Paper was also winner of the 2007 Judith Lee Ridge Prize for the best article in the field of history published by a member of the Western Association of Women Historians
Currently Assistant Professor of American and Women's History, Louisiana State University 

Beth Currans

Religious Studies
Honorable Mention, 2004:
"Instituting Heteronormative Belief in the Law."
Currently Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Eastern Michigan University

2003

Suzanne Crawford (O'Brien)

Religious Studies
Stough Prize, 2003:
"A Generation Lost: Defining Health and Wellness for Women of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation."
Currently Associate Professor, Religion and Culture, Chair of Global Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University

2002

Sharon P. Doetsch-Kidder

English
Stough Prize, 2002:
"Methods of Rule: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy in Victorian Social Novels."
Currently Adjunct Professor of Languages, Mathematics and Sciences, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA

1999

Sharon P. Doetsch-Kidder

English
Stough Prize, 2002:
"Methods of Rule: Capitalism, Imperialism, and Patriarchy in Victorian Social Novels."
Currently Adjunct Professor of Languages, Mathematics and Sciences, Tidewater Community College, Portsmouth, VA