GSWS Awards Season!

GSWS Awards Season is here! With due dates on April 5th and April 15th, we are offering several awards open to undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, including the Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award, Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award, Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research Expense Grants, Non Tenure Track Teaching Faculty Research Grant, and the Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award for Faculty and Graduate Student. 

Please learn more about each award and view application instructions here. For information on the undergraduates prizes, please contact Gwendolyn Beetham (gbeetham@sas.upenn.edu); for all other awards and grants, please contact Che Gossett (cheg@sas.upenn.edu). We are excited to celebrate and support you! 

DUE APRIL 1, 2025

Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award

Created in honor of Phoebe Leboy and Helen Davies, two pioneering feminist faculty members in the health sciences, this award provides up to $2,000 in research or travel funding to a graduate student whose work fosters women's health, well-being, and educational equality anywhere in the world, or enhances our understanding of gender inequality.

Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award

Created in honor of Phyllis Rackin, a pioneering feminist scholar and former faculty member in the English Department at Penn, this award provides up to $2,000 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.

Graduate Student Research Expense Grants

The FQT Center's GSWS Graduate Student Research Grants provide competitive grants of up to $500 designed to support research-related expenses, including (but not limited to) conference registration and travel, research travel, transcription and other materials.

DUE APRIL 15, 2025

Non Tenure Track Teaching Faculty Research Grant

The Penn GSWS program wishes to assist non-tenured teaching faculty in their academic research, given the importance of their continued contribution to academic scholarship. In support of this goal, the GSWS program offers research grants, between $2000-$3,000 each, specifically for non-tenure track teaching faculty whose research is under the rubric of feminist, gender, sexuality, women's and transgender studies. The grant may be used at any time during the academic year to support research-related expenses.

The Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award for Faculty and Graduate Student

This award recognizes teachers who have cultivated a learning environment that facilitates, encourages, and engages feminist critique and who prioritize inclusive classroom practices. Two awards will be given: one to faculty and one to graduate students teaching or TAing GSWS owned or GSWS cross-listed courses.

LGBTQ & Gender Studies Undergraduate Student Research Expense Grants 

The FQT Center's LGBTQ & Gender Studies Undergraduate Student Research Expense Grants provide competitive grants up to $500 designed to support research-related expenses for projects that address questions central to LGBTQ and/or gender studies.