Recent Award Winners

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Recent Award Winners

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS - 2006-2007

The Women's Studies Program is pleased to support students and faculty whose research and scholarly activities expand our knowledge of women and gender issues. Also, the Women's Studies Program collaborates with other university departments and programs by co-sponsoring women/gender-related scholarly activities. Listed below are individuals and programs supported by the Women's Studies Program for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Undergraduate:

Jameson Prize winner:

Capri Fisher is the 2007 recipient of the $250 Jameson Prize for her undergraduate paper entitled "The Changing Face of Motherhood: How Women's Lifestyle Magazine Advertising Depicts American Mothers of the Past and Present."

Left to Right: Jameson Award Winner Capri Fisher, Dr. Grace Jameson, and Dr. Elizabeth Jameson at the Women's Studies Spring 2007 Luncheon.

Graduate:

Women's Studies Graduate Research Fellowships:

Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Department of Sociology, was awarded a Dissertation/Thesis Fellowship for her PhD dissertation entitled "The Cultural Logic of Abu Ghraib: A Theoretical Analysis" (to be defended June 1, 2007).

Masha Sukovic, Department of Communication, was awarded a Dissertation/ Thesis Fellowship for her MA thesis, "Hysterectomies and Gender Identity among Serbian Women."

Miranda Green-Barteet, Department of English, was awarded a Dissertation/Thesis Fellowship for "Neither Wholly Public, Nor Wholly Private: Interstitial Spaces in the Works of 19th Century American Women Writers."

Miranda Green-Barteet receiving the Graduate Research Fellowship Award from WMST Program Review Committee member Dr. Joseph Jewell.

Travel Grants:

Christina Ashie, Comparative Literature Program, was awarded a grant for travel to the National Women's Studies Association meeting to be held June 2007.

Isabel Ayala, Department of Sociology, received a grant for travel to the meeting of the American Sociological Association held in Montreal, Canada in the summer of 2006.

Emily Hoeflinger, Department of English, was awarded a grant for travel to the Society for the Study of American Women Writers held November 2006 in Philadelphia.

Christine Kleck, Department of Communication, received a grant for travel to the Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women's History being held in Sofia, Bulgaria in August 2007.

Amy Larsen, Department of English, was awarded a grant for travel to the National Women's Studies Association meeting to be held June 2007.

Julie McCormick, Department of English, received a grant for travel to the July 2007 meeting of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures in Dublin, Ireland.

Nicole McDaniel-Carder, Department of English, was awarded a grant for travel to the Society for the Study of American Women Writers held November 2006 in Philadelphia.
Gina Opdycke, Department of English, received a grant for travel to the April 2007 Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association Conference held in Boston.
Theresa Survillion, Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development, was awarded a grant for the pre-conference workshop on women's and gender centers she gave at the ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting held spring 2007 in Orlando.

Left to Right: Travel grant winners Christine Kleck, Julie McCormick, Gina Opdycke, Emily Hoeflinger, and Amy Larsen.

Faculty:

Women’s Studies Faculty Curriculum Diversity Grants:

Dr. Barbara Finlay, Department of Sociology, for "Women and Religion: Feminist Perspectives"

WMST Program Review Committee member Dr. Kimberly Brown with WMST Curriculum Diversity Grant winner, Dr. Barbara Finlay.

Glasscock/WMST Stipendiary Faculty Fellowship:

Dr. Patricia Phillippy, Department of English, for "Women in Document and Monument in Early Modern England."

Dr. Patricia Phillippy, recipient of the Glasscock/WMST Stipendiary Faculty Fellowship, with Dr. Jim Rosenheim, Director, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research.

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