Mary Lily Research Grant Recipients, 2002-2003

Bebe Barefoot, Department of English, University of Alabama, for work on her dissertation The (Trans)Portable Acker, an experimental biography of avant-garde author Kathy Acker.

Brandi Brimmer, Department of History, UCLA, for work on her dissertation Gender and the Politics of Widow’s Pension Claims which explores the ways poor black women used the military pension system to shape social welfare policies.

Susan Ferentinos, Department of History, Indiana University, for work on her dissertation An Unpredictable Age: Sex, Consumption, and the Emergence of the American Teenager, 1910-1950.

Debra Herbenick, The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, for work on a book which explores the history of language used regarding women’s sexuality and reproductive health.

Catherine Jones, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, for work on her dissertation on the expansion of public education and the experiences of African-American and white women teachers in the post-Civil War South.

Nancy Unger, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Santa Clara University, for work on a book tentatively titled Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: Gender and American Women in Environmental History.

Linda Wayne, Women's Studies Department, University of Minnesota, for work on her dissertation Sexualities: From Second to Third Wave Feminism.

Dona Yarbrough, Department of English, University of Virginia, for work on her dissertation Real Queer: Sapphic Modernity and American Realism which examines precursors to the lesbian pulp literature of the 1950s and 1960s.