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!
Abigail Luft ‘22 - Senior Academic Scholarship
Gendered Upbringings: How 必博娱乐,比博娱乐网址 Students Recount Gendered Aspects of Childhood
Rojika Sharma ‘22 - Senior Academic Scholarship
Mapping South Asian Diaspora Aunties on Media: How do Aunties Curate, Sustain, and Transform Diaspora Identities?
Mir Colbert ‘22 - Senior Academic Scholarship (Honorable Mention)
Consuming Black Womanhood: Displays of Black Women’s Aesthetic and the Content Creators That Mimic Them
Michael Kern ‘22 - Senior Academic Scholarship (Honorable Mention)
Filipina Motherhood in Response to Discrimination: How Migrant Filipina Mothers Pass Down their Culture to their Mixed-heritage Japanese-Filipino Children While Living in Japan
Mai Dang ‘24, Joan Do-Truong ‘23, Farah Farah ‘22, Ali Imran ‘24, Michael Kern ‘22, Lila Kiron ‘22, Anahi Lopez ‘22, Rojika Sharma ‘22 - Activism (1st Place)
Refugee Advocacy Collective
Alexandra Andres ‘24, Catlin Cornish ‘24, Julia Rizzo ‘24 - Activism (2nd Place)
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Diboura Tamirat ‘24 - Artistic Expression (1st Place)
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Sophie Boyages ‘22 - Artistic Expression (2nd Place)
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Zora Whitfield ‘24 - Artistic Expression (2nd Place)
“Safe Spaces in the Future” and “Fragmentation Exploration”
O. René Garrett ‘23 - Essay (1st Place)
Sex, Medicine, and the Politics of Productivity: The Black Maternity in the Post-Enlightenment West
Minh Tran ‘24 - Essay (2nd Place)
Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and the Politics of Remembrance
