Every year, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program presents its annual awards in honor of the late Dr. Nan Nowik, Associate Professor of English (1972-1988), former Women’s Coordinator, and co-founder of the Women’s Resource Center at 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### University. The awards were created to celebrate outstanding student work in academic scholarship, activism, artistic expression, and essay. Here are this year’s winners!

Noelle Boyages ‘21 - Senior Academic Scholarship

African American Women and Title IX: Where is Title VI?

Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Senior Academic Scholarship (Honorable Mention)

Embodied Experiences and Analysis of 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 ######### University Accessibility

Joan Do-Truong ‘23 - Activism

Surviving Through Activism

Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Activism (Honorable Mention)

Menstrual Product Activism

Rojika Sharma ‘22 - Activism (Honorable Mention)

Activism Through Art and Workshops

Temitope Sholola ‘21 - Artistic Expression

Poem: My body is inappropriate

Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Essay

Colonized Embodiment: Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Contemporary United States

Muhammad Ali Imran ‘24 - Essay

Patriarchy v. Aurat March

Smelanda Jean-Baptiste ‘21 - Essay (Honorable Mention)

Hubertine Auclert and the Use of Algerian Women in the Late 19th-Early 20th Century Colonial Context

Sky Calderón ‘21 - Essay (Honorable Mention)

Womanist Theology and Christian Paradigms

May 13, 2021