2016 Graduate Student Recipients of the Phyllis Rackin Fellowship

The Awardees for 2016 are:

Natalie Shibley, Africana Studies and History

   Sexual Contagion: The Politics of Sexuality and Public Health in the U.S. Military, 1941-1993

Danielle Hanley, Political Science

   Crying: The Political Work of Tears

Julia Cox, English

   Breaking the Back of Words: Women, the Protest Song, and the Long Civil Rights Movement

The Phyllis Rackin Fellowship was created in honor of Phyllis Rackin, a pioneering feminist scholar and former faculty member in the English Department here at Penn. The fellowship will provide up to $4,000 in research or travel funding to a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences whose research creates or promotes new scholarship on women, gender, and/or sexuality in the humanities.