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- Rubenstein Library travel grant and fellowship programs paused during the 2021-2022 academic year due to the pandemic.
- See separate pages for information about the Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Travel Grants and the Harry H. Harkins Jr. T'73 Travel Grants for LGBTQ History
2023-2024
Ola Aboukhsaiwan, Ph.D. candidate, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Surviving Abortion: Clinics, Competition, and Connections.”
Sophie Abramowitz, Independent Researcher, “Rosetta Records Creative Reissue Project.”
Anne Gray Fischer, Faculty, University of Texas at Dallas, “Women Killers: Murder in the Era of Feminist Liberation.”
Wendy Rouse, Faculty, San Jose State University, “The Feminist Self-Defense Movement in the Era of Women’s Liberation.”
Rachel Tang, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University; Department of History of Art and Architecture, “Lessons in Repair: History, Materials, and Processes of Pedagogy in American Art.”
Tessel Veneboer, Ph.D. candidate, Ghent University, “Negativity, sexuality, and formal innovation Kathy Acker’s literary experiments.”
2022-2023
Brianna Anderson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Florida, “‘A Smidgeon of Ecofeminism’: Envisioning Environmental Issues and Activism in Women’s Zines.”
Rachel Corbman, Faculty, Mount Holyoke College, “Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-1989.”
Benjamin Holtzman, Faculty, Lehman College, “’Smash the Klan’: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century.”
Cindy Lima, Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University, “Transnational Latinas: A Twentieth Century History of Latina Politics.”
Molli Spalter, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, Wayne State University, “”Feeling Wrong and Feeling Wronged: Radical Feminism and ‘Feeling Work’.”
Emily Hunt, Ph.D. candidate, Emily Hunt, Georgia State University, “‘We are a Gentle Angry People and We are Singing for Our Lives’: A Story of Women’s Music, 1975-1995.”
Felicity Palma, Faculty, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Pittsburgh, “of flesh and feelings and light and shadows.” (Grant sponsored jointly with the Archive of Documentary Arts.)
Lara Vapnek, Faculty, Department of History, St. John’s University, “Mothers, Milk, and Money: A History of Infant Feeding in the United States.” (Grant sponsored jointly with the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History.)
2020-2021
Dena Aufseeser, Faculty, Dept. of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, “Family Labor, Care, and Deservingness in the US”
Elvis Bakaitis, Adjunct Reference Librarian, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “The Queer Legacy of Dyke Zines”
Sarah Heying, Ph.D. candidate, University of Mississippi, “An examination of the relationship between reproductive politics and southern lesbian literature since 1970”
Emily Larned, Faculty, Art and Art History, University of Connecticut, “The Efemmera Reissue Project”
Susan Sepulveda, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona, “Travesando Chicana punk:” examining Chicana punk identity formations through the production of cultural texts
Tiana Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Austin, “No Freedom Without All of Us: Recovering the Lasting Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance”
2019-2020
Emily Fleisher, Artist, Artistic project will include a series of drawings based on historic needlework that create a narrative about the lives of American women before 1920
Charlie Jeffries, Faculty, University of East Anglia: Your Best American Girl: Construction of Adolescent Sexualities in the US Culture Wars
Laura Kenner, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture Department: Text, Sex, and Video: New York City’s Downtown/Underground Scene (1973-1996)
Nell Lake, Doctoral Candidate, Brown University, American Studies Department: Research for dissertation that will link 20th century moral discourse around care and domestic labor with 20th century politics of women’s work
Jessica Lapp, Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information: The Provenance of Protest: An Exploration of Feminist Activist Archiving
Kaja Marczewska, Research Fellow, Coventry University, Centre for Postdigital Cultures: Distribute-it-Yourself: Judy Hogan and the History of North American Small Press in Circulation (1960s-1990s)
Jennifer Withrow, Doctoral Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Economics Department: Three Essays on Labor and Marriage Markets: Farm Crisis and Rural-to-Urban Migration in the United States, 1920-1940
2018-2019
Chiara Amoretti, Ph.D. candidate, English, University of Bristol, for dissertation research about an analysis of feminist revisions to Christian narratives in the work of 20th century women writers Mina Loy, Kathy Acker, and Maggie Nelson.
Alison Bazylinski, Ph.D. candidate, American Studies, College of William & Mary, for dissertation research, "Fabric Makes the Woman: A Cultural History of Textiles, 1920-1945."
Molly Brookfield, Ph. D. candidate, History and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, for dissertation research, "Watching the Girls Go By: Citizenship and Sexual Harassment in the American Street, 1850-1980."
Donna Drucker, professor, Language Research Center, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, for a book chapter in Beyond the Pill: Non-Hormonal Contraception for Women in the Twentieth-Century United States.
Elizabeth Kinnamon, Ph. D. candidate, Gender and Women's Studies, University of Arizona, for dissertation research, "Feminist Consciousness Raising as a Technique of Attention, 1960-1980."
Rachel Miller, Ph.D. candidate, English, Ohio State University, for dissertation research, "Immaterial Girls: Bedroom Culture and the Ephemeral Archive in the 1990s."
Amanda Mixon, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, University of California-Irvine, for dissertation research, "Queerer, My God, to Thee: Twentieth-Century White Southern Lesbian Writers and Anti-Racist Praxis." (Grant sponsored by the Duke Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies)
Allison Schwartz, Ph.D. candidate, History, University of Minnesota, for dissertation research, "Banking on a Woman's Worth: Personhood and the New Patriarchy of Debt, 1968-2008."
Virginia Thomas, Ph.D. candidate, American Studies, Brown University, for dissertation research "Queer Albums: Regions of Intimacy, Time, and Race in the U.S. South."
2017-2018
Mary Bathory Vidaver, M.Div. candidate, Yale Divinity School, "Saving the South: Lucy Randolph Mason, Liston Pope, and the Southern Social Gospel."
Heike Bauer, senior lecturer, English Literature and Gender Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, for a journal article about gender and domestic violence in contemporary comics and graphic narratives by women.
Lisa Beard, postdoctoral fellow, Political Science, University of California Riverside, for a chapter, "'They Are Both My People': Southerners on New Ground on Divide and Conquer Politics and the Object of Organizing, 1993-2014."
Rachel Corbman, Ph.D. candidate, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stony Brook University, for dissertation research, "Feminist Conference Archive: The Intellectual and Infrastructural History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-1989."
Angela Elder, postdoctoral fellow, History, Virginia Tech, for work on her book, Married to the Confederacy: The Emotional Politics of Confederate Widowhood.
Rachel Hurst, professor, Women's and Gender Studies, St. Francis Xavier University, in support of a work of fiction focused on creating intergenerational dialogues about women's studies through ruptured time and space.
Vanesa Menéndez Cuesta, Ph.D. candidate, Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, for a journal article, "Preserving the Slut's pleasure(s): zines, archives and the power of sorority's healing and solidarity in archives."
J.E. Morgan, Ph.D. candidate, History, Emory University, "American Concubines: Gender, Race, Class, and Power in the Colonial and U.S. South, 1662-1865."
Brianna Nofil, Ph.D. candidate, History, Columbia University, for dissertation research examining the relationship between the women's movement and the "War on Crime" in the late 1960s through 1980s.
Emily Roper, associate professor, Kinesiology, Sam Houston State University, for a journal article examining the ways in which physically active and athletic girls are represented in young adult literature published prior to 1972.
2016-2017
Jason Ezell, Ph.D. candidate, American Studies, University of Maryland, "Queer Shoulders: The Poetics of Radical Faerie Cultural Formation in Appalachia."
Margaret Galvan, Ph.D. candidate, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Burgeoning zine aesthetics in the 1980s through the censored Conference Diary from the controversial Barnard Sex Conference (1982).”
Kirsten Leng, assistant professor, Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Breaking Up the Truth with Laughter: A Critical History of Feminism, Comedy, and Humor.
Linda Lumsden, associate professor, School of Journalism, University of Arizona, The Ms. Makeover: The survival, evolution, and cultural significance of the venerable feminist magazine.
Mary-Margaret Mahoney and Danielle Dumaine, Ph.D. candidates, history, University of Connecticut, for a documentary film, Hunting W.I.T.C.H.: Feminist Archives and the Politics of Representation (1968-1979, and present).
Jason McBride, independent scholar, for the first, comprehensive and authorized biography of Kathy Acker.
Kristen Proehl, assistant professor, English, SUNY-Brockport, Queer Friendship in Young Adult Literature, 1850-Present.
Yung-Hsing Wu, associate professor, English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Closely, Consciously Reading Feminism.
2015-2016
Meaghan Beadle, Ph.D. candidate, history, University of Virginia, “This is What a Feminist Looks Like! Photography and Feminism, 1968-1980.”
Hanne Blank, Ph.D. candidate, history, Emory University, “Southern Women, Feminist Health: Activist Health Service and Communities of Radical Conscience in the Southeastern U.S., 1968-1990.”
Samantha Bryant, Ph.D. candidate, history, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, “‘Black Monster Stalks the City’: The Thomas Wansley Case and the Racialized Cultural Landscape of the American Prison Industrial Complex, 1960 – 1975.”
Jaime Cantrell, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, The Sarah Isom Center for Women's and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi, “Southern Sapphisms: Race, Sexuality, and Sociality in Literary Productions, 1968-1994.”
Ariel Dougherty, Independent scholar, for book research on film teaching programs for young women, women of color, and queer women.
Anne Gray Fischer, Ph.D. candidate, history, Brown University, for dissertation research on the politics of prostitution in the US from 1960s - 1980s.
Anna Iones, Ph.D. candidate, English language and literature, University of Virginia, “Shocking Violence, Contested Consent: The Feminist Avant-garde from Kathy Acker to Riot Grrrl.”
Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor, history, Louisiana State University, Responding to Rape: Contesting the Meanings of Sexual Violence in the United States, 1950-1980.
Whitney Stewart, Ph.D. candidate, history, Rice University, “Domestic Activism: The Politics of the Black Home in Nineteenth-Century America.”
Mary Whitlock, Ph.D. candidate, sociology, University of South Florida, “Examining Forty Years Of The Social Organization Of Feminisms: Ethnography Of Two Women’s Bookstores In the US South.”
Leah Wilson, Master's student, English, Iowa State University, “Fleeing the Double Bind: Subverting the ‘White Trash’ Label through Female Solidarity and Erotic Power in Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller.”
2014-2015
Dr. Georgina Colby, linguistics and cultural studies, University of Westminster, for a book on Kathy Acker combining philosophical analysis with literary and critical theory, exploring connections between feminist theory, Acker’s use of philosophy, and her experimental writing practices.
Dr. Donna Drucker, civil and environmental engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt, for a journal article on sexual behavior and the science of contraceptive testing in the mid-twentieth century United States.
Sara Mameni, Ph.D. candidate, visual arts, University of California, San Diego, for dissertation research on Iran-US relations in the 1960s and 1970s—leading up to Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979—through the lens of queer theory, feminist theory, and postcolonial studies.
Ivy McIntyre, Ph.D. candidate, history, St. Louis University, for dissertation research on South Carolina families in times of personal crisis in the early Republic.
Andrew Pope, Ph.D. candidate, history, Harvard University, for dissertation research on radical social movements and the New South in Georgia from 1968-1996.
Dr. Jason Scott, Dr. Annalisa Castaldo, and Jennifer Lynn Pollitt, for an edited collection of essays looking at how kink identities, behaviors, and lifestyles are represented in popular and cultural studies.
Mairead Sullivan, Ph.D. candidate, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, Emory University, for dissertation research on questions of breastedness in feminist and queer theory.
Hope Tucker, independent scholar, for an artist’s video on the fragility of reproductive rights in the American South, as seen through the work of those who documented and labored for these rights in the second half of the twentieth century.
2013-2014
Valerie Behrer, Ph.D. candidate, English, University of Minnesota, for dissertation research on the connections between girls’ subjectivities, autobiographical practices and the development of American radical feminism from the late 1960s to the 1970s.
Erin Leigh Durban-Albrecht, Ph.D. candidate, gender & women’s studies, University of Arizona, for a set of related projects — including a film and her dissertation — that use Kathy Acker’s Kathy Goes to Haiti to explore racialized gender and sexuality, cultural production and U.S.‐Haiti relations in the 20th and early 21st century.
Lauren Gutterman, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Michigan, for a book that will examine the personal experiences and public representation of American wives who desired women from 1945 to 1979.
Monica Miller, Ph.D. candidate, English and Women’s & Gender Studies, Louisiana State University, for dissertation research on the use of ugly women as characters that defy the stereotype of the beautiful belle in the work of 20th-century southern women writers.
Michelle Pronovost, Master’s student, Fashion Institute of Technology, for research on the confrontational fashion of riot grrrls in zines from the 1990s.
Andrea Walton, associate professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington, for research supporting an article and book chapter on philanthropist Eleanor Thomas Elliott.
Kelly Weber, Ph.D. candidate, history, Rice University, for dissertation research related to the politics of daughterhood in the New South from 1880 to 1920.
Stacy J. Williams, Ph.D. candidate, sociology, University of California, San Diego, for dissertation research on how social movements have affected feminist discourse about cooking from 1874 to 2013.
Mary Ziegler, assistant professor, Florida State University College of Law, for a book about how abortion providers helped define lay understandings of the constitutional, statutory and common law concerning abortion in the United States.
2012-2013
Bridget Collins, history of science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, for dissertation research on how American women prevented and treated infectious disease in 20th-century homes.
Laura Foxworth, history, University of South Carolina, for dissertation research on Southern Baptist reactions to women’s movement in the 1970s. (Read more about her research: "The Spiritual is Political" on the Rubenstein Library blog.)
Andrea M. Holliger-Soles, English literature, University of Kentucky, for dissertation research on the ideology and culture of domestic service and slavery in the United States.
Emma M. Howes, English, University of Massachusetts Amherst, for dissertation research examining literacy among Appalachian female mill workers in the Carolina Piedmont from 1880-1920.
Jessica Lancia, American history, University of Florida, for dissertation research on the transnational dimensions of the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s in the United States. (Read more about her research in the Fall 2012 issue of Women at the Center: "Profiles in Research: Jessica Lancia.")
Jane Shattuck Mayer, childhood studies, Rutgers University-Camden, for research on her dissertation which looks at 19th-century New England girlhood and education and its influence on authors of children’s literature.
Dorothy Quincy Thomas, independent scholar, for research on a book that explores progressive women’s identity and sense of self throughout American history by examining three generations of women in her family.
Kimberly Wilmot Voss, assistant professor, University of Central Florida, Nicholson School of Communication, for research on an article about how Robin Morgan worked with female journalists at mainstream newspapers.
2011-2012
Marika Cifor, Master's student, history and library and information science, Simmons College, for master's thesis research that examines historical relationships of lesbians and prostitutes in the United States from 1869-1969.
Jessica Frazier, Ph.D. candidate, history, Binghamton University, for dissertation research on Vietnamese militiawomen and the interconnections of empire, race and gender in the feminist movement from 1965-1980.
Choonib Lee, Ph.D. candidate, history, State University of New York at Stony Brook, for dissertation research on militant women in the new left and civil rights movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
La Shonda Mims, Ph.D. candidate, history, University of Georgia, for dissertation research on lesbian community and identity in the cities of Charlotte, N.C., and Atlanta, Ga., from WWII to the present.
Jennifer Nelson, associate professor, women's and gender Studies, University of Redland, for a book on community health reform movements from the mid-1960s to the present.
Ally Nevarez, Master's student, book arts and library and information science, University of Alabama, for an artists' book that highlights the important role that women have in contributing to community and preserving culture.
Rose Norman, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Alabama at Huntsville, for research on lesbian feminist activism in the South from 1965-1985.
Robin Robinson, associate professor, sociology/crime and justice studies, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, for a book and article on transportation and transformation of female convicts as unfree labor in Colonial America.
Emily Thuma, Ph.D. candidate, American studies, New York University, for research on feminist anti-incarceration activism in the 1970s and 1980s.
Elizabeth York, associate professor, Music Therapy, Converse College, for research on Atlanta women's music and culture from 1976-1986.
2010-2011
Katie Anania, art history, University of Texas-Austin, for dissertation research on the rise of feminism as a framework for evaluating contemporary art.
Lori Brown, architecture, Syracuse University, for research for a book examining the relationships between space, abortion and issues of access.
Kate Eichhorn, culture and media studies, The New School, for research comparing zines and scrapbooks as archival collections of ephemera.
Julie Enszer, women’s studies, University of Maryland, for an examination of lesbian-feminist print culture in Durham, N.C., from 1969-1989 as part of a historical narrative of lesbian-feminist publishing. (Read more about Enszer's research: "What She Wore" on the Rubenstein Library's blog.)
Karen Garner, historical studies, SUNY Empire State College, for an examination of U.S. global gender policy in the 1990s.
Rebecca Mitchell, English, University of Texas – Pan American, for research for an article examining the proto-feminist aspects and eroticism of Victorian mourning attire.
Michelle Moravec, history and women’s studies, Rosemont College, for research on feminist art activism as a U.S. social movement from 1967-1991.
Whitney Strub, women’s studies and American studies, Temple University, for research for a book examining the relationships between queer sexuality, LGBT activism and antigay activity in post-WWII United States.
2009-2010
Katherine McVane Armstrong, Ph.D. candidate, history, Emory University, for dissertation research on the cultural pressures and standards that influenced the grieving process of southern elite women following the death of a child.
Melissa Estes Blair, lecturer, history, University of Georgia, for research for a book examining the role of women's organizations in Denver, Durham and Indianapolis from 1960-1980 in forming activist communities.
Caroline Kaltefleiter, associate professor, State University of New York-Cortland, for research expansion on a book about the emergence of the Riot Grrrl movement, transgender activism and Third Wave feminism.
Jessica Lingel, independent scholar, for research on a collection of essays about American 20th-century women writers' experiences with medical trauma and how illness impacted their writing and art.
Jeannie Ludlow, assistant professor, English and women's studies, Eastern Illinois University, for research on an article and conference presentation about the political and sociocultural evolution of abortion and reproductive rights discourse during the past 40 years of the women’s movement.
Ailecia Ruscin, Ph.D. candidate, American studies, University of Kansas, for dissertation research on the fan culture of riot grrrls across the United States and its influence on the production of zines — as well as films, photographs and records.
Denise Shaw, assistant professor, English and women's studies, University of South Carolina, for research on a book about the social and cultural constraints upon a single mother and her daughter, Virginia and Julia May, faced in the first half of the twentieth century.
Mary Tasillo, independent scholar, for creation of a zine and other publication about Third Wave feminism and women's self-production based on an exploration of text and image relationships within artists' books and zines.
Jamie Schmidt Wagman, Ph.D. candidate, American studies, Saint Louis University, for dissertation research on production and consumption relating to birth control devices from 1958 to today, with particular focus on public attitudes towards contraception revealed in feminist writings, zines and advertisements.
2008-2009
Agatha Beins, women’s and gender Studies, Rutgers University, for dissertation research on the role of feminist newsletters and newspapers in unifying and enabling the feminist movement of the 1970s.
Lindsey Churchill, history, Florida State University, for dissertation research on the intersections, as well as the points of contention, between U.S. radicals and Latin American revolutionaries in the 1960s-1980s.
Breanne Fahs, women’s studies, Arizona State University, for research for a book documenting the life of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the context of early radical feminism and underground feminist publishing.
Jennifer Gilley, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, for research for a book chronicling both the history of U.S. feminist presses and the publication history of “feminist bestsellers,” including Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics, Robin Morgan’s anthology Sisterhood is Powerful and Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.
Margaret Henderson, Arts Ipswich Program, University of Queensland, Australia, for research for a book on Kathy Acker’s work in relation to feminist and postmodern theories of literature, culture and capitalism.
Emily Hoeflinger, English, Texas A&M University, for dissertation research on the existence of a third-wave terminology in the writings of zines and the impact of these texts on outside literary genres, particularly "Chick Lit" and women’s experimental writing of the 1960s-1990s.
Ronald D. Lankford, independent scholar, for research on a book-length study of feminist issues in the rock music of women singer-songwriters during the 1990s.
Jessica Lee, history, University of Washington, for dissertation research on the intricate relationship between the development of radical feminism and women’s involvement in higher education.
Olga Trokhimenko, foreign languages and literatures, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, for the preparation and expansion of a book-length manuscript on the cultural meanings of women’s laughter and smiling in medieval German tradition.
2007-2008
David Brown, lecturer, School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures, Manchester University, U.K., for work on a book on working class, non-slaveholding whites in the antebellum American South.
Lindsey Churchill, Department of History, Florida State University, for work on her dissertation on gender and the connection between Latin American and U.S. leftist revolutionary groups.
Jason Demers, Programme in English, York University, Canada, for work on his dissertation on Kathy Acker and French post-structuralist theory and American postmodernist writing.
LaShawn Harris, Department of History, Howard University, for work on an article about the political and social activism of Mittie Maude Lena Gordon during the 1930s.
Karissa Haugeberg, Department of History, University of Iowa, for work on her dissertation on women in the anti-abortion movement in the United States from 1970-2000.
Tameka Hobbes, Valentine Richmond History Center, Virginia, for research for a permanent museum exhibition on the city of Richmond.
Heather Murray, lecturer, Department of History, University of Ottawa, Canada, for work on a book on the relationships between gay men and lesbians and their parents in the United States in the post-WWII period.
Renée Sentilles, associate professor, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, for work on a book on the cultural depiction of American tomboys from 1830-1920.
David Valone, assistant professor, Department of History, Quinnipiac University, for work on an article on the intersection between population control and women's health movements from the 1960s-1990s.
2006-2007
Samantha Barbas, visiting assistant professor, Department of History, University of California at Berkeley, for work on a book about the life and career of Gloria Steinem and her involvement in the women's movement in the 1970s-1990s.
Elizabeth Bishop, adjunct lecturer, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, for work on a book and an article about access to abortion and women's citizenship in the USSR and Arab states from 1930-1980.
Lyz Bly, Department of History, Case Western Reserve University,for work on her dissertation on connections between Second Wave radical feminism and the Third Wave Riot Grrrl Movement.
Janet Davidson, Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington, NC, for work on an exhibition about women's lives in the Lower Cape Fear before 1900.
Katarina Keane, Department of History, University of Maryland, for work on her dissertation on feminist activism in the American South from 1960s-1970s.
Sarah Maitland, for work on a book about zines written by women and women-identified people from 1990-2005.
Kevin O'Neill, English Studies, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, for work on his dissertation examining plagiarism, authorship and autobiography in the work of author Kathy Acker.
Doreen Piano, Assistant Professor, English Dept., University of New Orleans, for work on a book about the production, distribution and reception of independent "Do-It-Yourself" publications.
2005-2006
Lisa Diedrich, Assistant Professor, Women's Studies Program, Stony Brook University, for work on an article about the continuities between the women's health movement in the 1970s and AIDS activism in the U.S. in the 1980s.
Eric Gardner, Associate Professor, Department of English, Saginaw Valley State University, for work on an article about Mary Wager Fisher and the African American literary community in Washington, D.C.
Kimberly Hamlin, Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, for work on her dissertation, which examines the impact of Darwin and evolutionary discourse on gender and feminist thought in the U.S., 1870-1925.
Victoria Hesford, lecturer, Women's Studies Program, Stony Brook University, for work on a book about the feminist as lesbian and the second wave women's movement, 1968-1974.
Alison Piepmeier, senior lecturer, Women's Studies Program, Vanderbilt University, for work on an article that examines third wave feminist zines and corporate culture.
Heather Prescott, Professor, History Department, Central Connecticut State University, for work on a book about the development of health services at institutions of higher education in the U.S. from the early 1800s to the present.
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University, for work on her dissertation about the Links, a black women's service organization.
Sarah Stanton, Department of Women's Studies, Emory University, for work on her dissertation on women's queer identities in the post-Stonewall U.S. South.
2004-2005
Mary Anne Beecher, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, for work on a book about the material culture of domestic storage from 1820 to 1920, and women’s roles in influencing its character and use.
Jamie Bufalino, Department of History, University of California at Riverside, for work on her dissertation which examines the impact of advertising on women’s roles and stereotypes from 1925 to 1935.
Ellen Cain, Independent Scholar, for work on a book which examines Amber Arthun Warburton’s views on nationhood, ethnicity, social class, and gender, and how these views shaped her efforts on behalf of migrant laborers in mid-20th century America.
Jennifer Eisenhauer, Assistant Professor, Department of Art Education, Ohio State University, for work on an article which looks at girls’ zines as a window on the relationship between young women’s subjectivity/agency and popular visual culture.
Katherine Lehman, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico, for work on her dissertation which examines popular representations of single women from the 1960s to the present in relation to changing sexual mores.
Margaret McFadden, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Appalachian State University, for work on a book about international women activists from 1918 to 1939.
Ulrike Mueller, Independent Scholar, for work on an exhibit on “the text, identity, and performance that was Kathy Acker” scheduled for November 2004 at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Jennifer Putzi, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Women’s Studies, The College of William and Mary, for work on a book about the gendered politics of Confederate mourning and commemoration.
2003-2004
Judith Beale, for work on a book about the woman suffrage movement in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Tanfer Emin-Tunc, for work on her dissertation, which examines medical technology and pregnancy termination in the United States from 1850 to 1980.
Caroline Janney-Lucas, for work on her dissertation, which explores the ways women helped to shape white southerners’ understandings of defeat and reconciliation in the years 1861-1890.
Kimberly Harrison, for work on a book that examines the rhetoric of southern women’s diaries during the Civil War.
Amy Minton, for work on her dissertation, which examines the concept of respectability and Southern social relations in the mid-nineteenth century.
Jennifer Nelson, for work on a book that examines African-American women’s reactions to the medicalization of reproduction from the 1940s to the present.
Ann Marie Nicolosi, for work on a book that compares female imagery in the media during the women’s suffrage movement and the women’s liberation movement.
Johanna Schöen, for work on a book about women’s reproductive health from the 1960s to the present.
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.
2001-2002
Janni Linda Aragon, Department of Political Science, University of California at Riverside, for work on her dissertation "Movement Into the Academy: Second Wave Feminism and Political Science."
Ruth L. Fairbanks, Department of History, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaigne, for work on her dissertation "Pregnant Workers: Women's Jobs, Women's Bodies, Welfare and Equality, 1940-1993."
Judith E. Harper, independent scholar, for work on her book An Encyclopedia of Women During the Civil War.
Carla Harryman, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Wayne State University, for work on an article on Kathy Acker's poetics. This article will be included as a chapter in a book proposal about Acker's writings. The volume is currently under consideration by several university presses.
Anne K. Huebel, Department of History, University of Minnesota, for work on her dissertation "More Than an Individual: British Thoughts on Motherhood from the 1830s to WWI."
Karen Leroux, Department of History, Northwestern University, for work on her dissertation "Servants of Democracy: Women's Work in U.S. Public Education, 1866-1902."
Jennifer Meares, Department of History, Emory University, for work on her dissertation which examines the changing boundaries of rudeness and gentility in Hancock County, Georgia, between the advent of the cotton gin in 1793 and the eve of the Civil War in 1860.
Linda Veltze, Professor, Department of Library Science, Appalachian State University, for research supporting a project which shows how the slave owning family of Rev. Richard W. Barber (of Wilkes, NC) influenced the life of the slave Judith Barber, and vice versa, and how the descendents of the two interpret and live out the consequences of this history.
2000-2001
Elizabeth B. Boyd, American Studies Department, University of Texas at Austin, for research on her dissertation, Southern Beauty. Performing Femininity in an American Region.
Shawn D. Kimmel, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, for research on his dissertation, "Social & Cultural History of Domesticity & Philanthropy in the Nineteenth Century U.S."
Anna M. Lawrence, Department of History, University of Michigan, for research on her dissertation, "Gender and Revolution in Early Methodist England and America, 1734-1820."
Seulky Shin, Department of History, University of Minnesota, for research on her dissertation exploring the connection between ideas about marriage (and family) in the South and the rise of intense nativism and nationalist rhetoric from 1880 to 1920 in the United States.
Jan S. Stennette, Assistant Professor, History Department, East Carolina University, for research on an article and eventual book chapter exploring the role of labor and African American women during and immediately following Reconstruction: 1865 to 1871. [Professor Stennette will also receive support for this project from Duke's John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African-American Documentation.]
Cheryl A. Wells, Department of History, University of South Carolina, for research on her dissertation, "Women: Gender, Time, and the Civil War."
Kirsten E. Wood, Assistant Professor, History Department, Florida International University, for research on her book, Slaveholding Widowhood, Gender, Class, and Power in the Southeast, 1790-1860.
1999-2000
Maria R. Bevacqua, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Emory University for her book, Rape on the Public Agenda: Feminism, Consciousness, and the Politics of Sexual Assault.
Lorraine K. Gates, Ph.D. candidate, Corcoran Department of History, the University of Virginia, for her dissertation, "The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Politics in the 1920s."
Jennifer L. Gross, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, the University of Georgia, for her dissertation, "'Good Angels' or Dangerous Women: Confederate Widowhood in the Postbellum South."
Michael Hardin, instructor, English Department, Houston Community College, for several projects related to the work of Kathy Acker. These will include a chapter in the essay collection, Devouring Institutions: The Life Work of Kathy Acker, edited by Hardin; an article investigating Acker's unpublished work and why she chose not to publish it; and possibly an effort to have some of this work published posthumously.
Deborah A. Lee, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University, for her case study of the elite white Virginians Ann Randolph Meade Page (1781-1838), her cousin, Mary Fitzhugh Custis, and her younger brother, William Meade, who worked together to end slavery and ameliorate its conditions.
Lucia McMahon, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University, for her dissertation "'Beings Endowed with Reason': Gender, Individualism, and Education in the Early Republic."
Sarah Pearsall, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Harvard University, for her dissertation, "'After All These Revolutions': Family Correspondence from the British-Atlantic World, 1760-1812."
