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Phyllis Rackin Graduate Fellowship Recipients
The Phyllis Rackin Fellowship for Feminist Scholarship in the Humanities was created in 2008 in honor of Phyllis Rackin, a pioneering feminist scholar and former faculty member in the English Department here at Penn. The fellowship provides up to $3,000 in summer research or travel funding to doctoral student(s) in theSchool of Arts and Sciences whose research creates or promotes new scholarship on women, gender, and/or sexuality in the humanities.
The 2014 recipient is:
Ad-Hoc Research Grants to Students in 2011
For the second year in a row, the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies program sent graduate students to Duke University’s annual spring feminist theory workshop which featured presentations by well-known gender and sexuality scholars. The graduate students whose travel and lodging we funded included:
GSWS has selected the 2011 recipients of the TCPW Junior Faculty Fellowships
Summer Junior Faculty Research Grants from the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women
The awardees for 2011 are:
Undergraduate Prize Recipients for 2011
The Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Senior Thesis Prize in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies was awarded to Theresa Antoff.
The Lynda Hart Prize was awarded to Josh Herren, an Art History major and GSWS minor. Josh Herren won the Lynda Hart Prize for a senior thesis or seminar or course paper in the field of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender) studies for his paper, "Gliding Through the 20th Century: A History of Personal Lubricant in Modern America."