Previous Student Recipients
Peña Scholarship
2005-2006 Anya Rouss
2006-2007 Katherine Burk, (Sociology/Middle Eastern Studies)
2008-2009 Sara Haji: News-worthy Niqabs: The Portrayal of Muslim Women by The New York Times from 2001-2003
Lora Romero Award
2005-2006 Scottie Buehler: Contraception and Identity Construction: Family Planning Policy in Egypt
2006-2007 Nicki Alam: The Impact of International Justice Mechanism on Ethnic Conflict in Northern Uganda
2006-2007 Reena Patel: Working the Night Shift: Gender and the Global Economy
2008-2009 Jennifer Karas Montez: Race and Ethnic Differences in Health Insurance Coverage Among Women: The Intersecting Roles of Employment, Marriage and Motherhood
2008-2009 Anna Stewart Kerr: Revising “Harriet Jacobs"
Ellen Clark Temple Award
2005-2006 Lilia Roquel D. Rosas: (De)sexing Prostitution: Race, Politics, and the Reform of Sex Work in Progressive San Antonio, 1889-1920
2006-2007 Meredith Bagley: Protecting Purity: Gender, Amateurism, and Competitive Women's Sports at UT Austin
2006-2007 Brenda Sendejo: Locating Feminista Spiritualities: Chicana Activist and Spiritual Formation in Texas
2006-2007 Jennifer Eckel: Community and Communitarianism: Texas, Utopia, and the Woman's Commonwealth
2007-2008 Caroline Hopkins Wigginton: Intimate Words: Women’s Writing and Community in Eighteenth-Century America
2007-2008 John F. Cline: Theoretical Girls: The Origins of Third Wave Feminism in the Post-Punk Lower East Side
2007-2008 Gretchen Elizabeth Voter: Historical Memory as Political Activism: The Foundation for Women's Resources and the Legacy of Second Wave Feminism in Texas
2008-2009 Amanda Moulder: Lock Up Your Daughters: Gender and Literacy in Cherokee Territory at
the Brainerd Mission School, 1817-1838
2008-2009 Leah Deane: Sex and Radical Pollitics: The Politicalization of Sex and Sexuality in the New Left in Berkeley and Austin
Dissertation Fellowships
2005-2006 Sandra Benavidez-Vaello: The Interplay of Diabetes, Culture and Food for Mexican-American Women
2006-2007 Kimberly Hamlin: Beyond Adam's Rib: How Darwinian Evolution Redefined Gender and Influenced American Feminist Thought, 1870-1920
2006-2007 Julie Reid: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nation in Bolivian Education
2007-2008 Allison Layne Parish Craig: Birth Control Movement Rhetoric in Women’s Literature, 1915-1939
2007-2008 Christina Leigh Murphey: Oral Health Among Pregnant and Parenting Adolescent Women: A Mixed Methods Study.
2008-2009 Catherine Connell: School’s Out: A Qualitative Exploration of Workplace Sexuality Through the Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Teachers
2008-2009 Megan Reid: Housing Inequality: Race, Gender, and Hurricane Katrina Housing Policy
