Previous Student Recipients
The Cynthia Walker Peña Award in Women's and Gender Studies
1996-1997 Lauran Helton
1998-1999 Katherine Aldridge
1999-2000 Gina Velasco
2000-2001 Mary E. Sylvester
2005-2006 Anya Rouss
2006-2007 Katherine Burk, (Sociology/Middle Eastern Studies)
2007-2008 none selected
2008-2009 Sara Haji: News-worthy Niqabs: The Portrayal of Muslim Women by The New York Times from 2001-2003
2009-2010 Maggie Cheu
2009-2010 Jamie Doak
2010-2011 Darcy Kues
The Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender
1999-2000 Daniela Bwyer
2000-2001 Jen'nan Ghazal Read: Coming to America: Ethnicity, Culture, and Labor Force Participation among Arab-American Women
2001-2002 Geeti Mahajan: Iran 2001
2002-2003 Yolanda Escobar-Rodriguez: Race, Resistance, and Urban Politics from a Cinema Perspective
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"
2009-2010 Harmony Eichsteadt: The (re)Production of Slaves: Why Our Economy Depends on the Incarceration of Pregnant Black Women
2010-2011 Ganiva Reyes: "It's not because I wanted it...I knew I wasn't ready": Young Mothering Teens in the Borderlands Speak Out About the Pressures of Sex, Love and Relationships
The Ellen Clarke Temple Graduate Award for the Study of Women in History
2001-2002 Jennifer Rose Najera: Texas Mexican Women in the Desegregation of the South Texas
2002-2003 Kelley M. Reidt: The Texas Cyclone: Anna J.H. Pennybacker
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 Leah Deane: Sex and Radical Pollitics: The Politicalization of Sex and Sexuality in the New Left in Berkeley and Austin
2008-2009 Amanda Moulder: Lock Up Your Daughters: Gender and Literacy in Cherokee Territory at
the Brainerd Mission School, 1817-1838
2009-2010 Angela Howard Frederick: Rethinking the Confidence Gap: Race, Community Activism, and Women’s Paths to Public Office
2009-2010 Jennifer Lynn Kelly: 19th Century Race and Reproduction: James Rowan Percy’s 1857-1859 Obstetrical Case Record Book
2010-2011 Valerie Martinez: World War II Texas Latina Servicewomen: Racializing and Gendering International Politics
2010-2011 Rebecca McEntee: Graphic vs Non-Graphic War Photography, and Women's Input
WGS Graduate Student Dissertation Awards
1996-1997 Elizabeth Claudine: Women and Math: How Stereotypes Impair Performance
1996-1997 Scarlet Bowen: The Labor of Femininity: Working Women in Eighteenth-Century British Prose
1998-1999 Maureen Reed: Her Spirit Knew No Borders:New Mexican Women and Literary Autobiography, 1930-1965
1998-1999 Sarah J. Walker: The Meaning of Consent: College Women's and Men's Experiemces with Nonviolent Sexual Coercion
1999-2000 Julie Garbus: Service and Learning at the Turn of Two Centuries: Lessons from Vida Scudder
1999-2000 Maribel Garcia: Women's Subjectivity, Structural Inequality and Borderlands Ethnography
1999-2000 Sharon Mastracci: Labor Pains: Employment Policy and Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor
1999-2000 Margaret Taylor: Health Experiences of Homeless Adolescent Women
2000-2001 Mindy Bravo: A Psychosocial/ Educational Intervention for Decreasing Gender Stereotypes in Technology
2000-2001 Rebecca Lorins: Inheritance: Kinship and African Literatures
2000-2001 Patricia Richards: (Re)sppropriating Citizenship: Mapuche and Pobladora Women and the Chilean State
2000-2001 Paula Sanmartin: With My Own Voice, in My Own Place: (Re)Construction of Black Women as Historical and Literary Subjects in Afro-American and Afro-Cuban Women's Writing
2001-2002 Jill Rader: Feminish Critiques of a Historical Power Imbalance Between Therapists and Clients
2001-2002 Deanna Shoemaker: Queers, Monsters, Drag Queens, and Whiteness: Unruly Femininities in Feminist Performance Art
2002-2003 Alexandra Barron: Unnatural Unions: The Queer National Romance in Postcolonia Literature and Film
2002-2003 Lisa Kearney: Hispanic and Caucasian Students' Experience of Sexual Harassment: The Intertwining of Power and Culture
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
2009-2010 Claudia Cervantes-Soon: Schooling in Times of Dystopia: Empowering young Women in Juarez
2009-2010 Nandini Dhar: Only My Revolt is Mine: Female Heroism, Counter Violence and Gendered Resistance in Contemporary Texts of Slavery
2010-2011 Courtney Morris: To Defend This Sunrise: Afro-Nicaraguan Women's Community Activism and Political Subjectivity, 1990-2010
2010-2011 Corinne Reczek: Gender and "Heath Work" in Long-Term Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Couples
