2026 Award Winners:
American Studies Undergraduate Awards
Robert Tilton Essay Prize
Nicholas Benda
Essay: “Dancing on Slippery Waters: Lagoda, New Bedford, Whaling, and the World” written for Professor Mary K. Bercaw Edwards’ ENGL 3265W class.
American Studies Graduate Research Awards
Crista Fiala, “Hartford Stories of the Connecticut River.”
Melissa Pérez Peña, “Fifty Meters of Affect: Charismatic Species, Tourism, and the Defense of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone in Puerto Rico.”
Daniela Lilly Rodiles, “Smoking Respectability: Turkish Smoking Parlors, Women, and the Policing of Pleasure in Fin-de-Siècle America.”
Amber Weinstock, “ ‘A Having Way’: Desire and Delay in Nella Larsen’s Passing.”
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Undergraduate Awards
Kristie Ann Wood Endowment Scholarship
Sherlyn Alvarado
Natalie I. Vázquez Rivera
WGSS Excellence Award
Kyler Joseph Christina
Chase Going Woodhouse Award
Annabel Brown
Gladys Tantaquidgeon Award
Rue Amaya
Feminist Arts Award
Naomi Mei-Ming Wong
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Graduate Awards
Susan Porter Benson Graduate Research Paper Award
Ivonne Cotorruelo Pérez
Dunahay Pereyra
Distinguished Graduate Career Award for Feminist Praxis
Carolyn Conway
Excellence in Graduate Teaching in Gender and Sexuality Studies Award
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2025 Award Winners:
Robert Tilton Essay Prize
Bianca Torres
Essay: “Kenrick Lamar Critiques the ‘Self Made’ System” written for Professor April Anson’s ENGL 3265W class.
WGSS Undergraduate Awards
Kristie Ann Wood Endowment Scholarship
Morgan Keating
Neila Toussaint
WGSS Excellence Award
Daniel Heumann
Chase Going Woodhouse Award
Liana Hazucha
Gladys Tantaquidgeon Award
Damini Lakshmipathy
Nazanin Zaer
Feminist Arts Award
Ahmya McCoy
WGSS Graduate Awards
Susan Porter Benson Graduate Research Paper Award
Lauren Danielowski
Distinguished Graduate Career Award for Feminist Praxis
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Excellence in Graduate Teaching in Gender and Sexuality Studies Award
Spencer Hayes