Lynda S. Hart Undergraduate Award in Sexuality Studies
A prize awarding $250 for a superior paper written in a Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies course. Awarded in memory of Lynda Hart, Professor of English at Penn and groundbreaking scholar in feminist performance studies and queer theory, the prize recognizes original, rigorous scholarship on gender and sexuality by a Penn undergraduate.
Deadline for 2025/2026 awards: Friday, March 20th.
Recent Award Recipients
Ari Ketchum
Lila Sherman
Thomas Malloy, Biochemistry and Biology: Disparate Treatment of Sex Disorder Diagnoses: The Role of Femaleness Being Viewed as the Absence of Maleness
Lee Ang, Sociology: "It's a pipeline, honestly": Linked Fate, discrimination, and critical trans politics of liberation and transformation
Serena Baldick Martinez, GSWS: (Honorable Mention) Reclaimed Nonbinary Harry Potter Fanfiction: Imagining Identity by Reading and Writing a Magical World
Sundeep Bhargava, Communications: Constructing a Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Archive: Network-Building in Community Organizing
Max Kanner: (Honorable Mention) The Closet’s Toll: Health Disparities in Queer Adolescents from Stress and Stigma
Erin O'Malley: I am Where I Come From: Narratives of Transgender Asian Adoptees
Isaac Essex: Expanding the Split: How the Gap in Legibility and Language Access makes Trans Poetics Essential
Wesley Neal, GSWS: Trans Colonialism: The State Project and White Trans Men in the United States from 1870 Onward
Kerry Schellenberger: Android Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Star Trek
Zachary Willis: A Marriage Proposal: A Critique of Post-Marriage Equality Tax Regulation of Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions
Virginia Seymour: Representing Gender and Sexuality in Disability Photography, 1847–2015
Dawn Androphy: Before Liberation: Political Ideology and Self-Expression in the U.S. Homophile Movement, 1950-1965
Lexi White: Dynamics and Consequences of the Street Harassment Experienced by Women of Color