Every year, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program presents its annual awards in honor of the late 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!
- Virginia Lawrence ’25 — Senior Research (first place); How Equitas Health Advocates for The LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS Community in 2024 and 2025
- Noah Chartier ’25 — Senior Research (honorable mention); Towards an Erotic Masculinity: Audre Lorde’s Insight to Unpacking Desire
- Students for Justice in Palestine — Activism (first place)
- Diana Avila-Callejas ’26 — Artistic Expression (first place - tie); The Watermelon Seeds We Cannot Bury: Memory, Grief and Resistance Across Borders
- Selena Mendez ’25 — Artistic Expression (first place - tie); Non-Chronological Anthology of Ingredients to Make My Chin
- Mia Hennum ’26 — Essay (first place); Black Feminist Thought Final
- Ahn Mia Tran ’25 — Essay (honorable mention); Myself, Quantified: From Mood Tracking to Practicing Feminism
June 16, 2025
