Honors and Awards

Full body shot of Christina Chung wearing long black and white coat, with hands crossed in front of her, smiling at the camera. Cherry blossom trees in the background.
Christina Yuen Zi Chung Receives Nancy C. M. Hartsock Award for Research on Gender Dynamics in Hong Kong
June 15, 2023
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UW Population Health Initiative Awards Grant to Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Studying the Impact of Abortion Myths on Healthcare Providers
June 1, 2023
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Marielle Marcaida and Jamelah Jacob Receive Support for Graduate Research Cluster on Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies
May 31, 2023
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Anna Zhao Awarded Chester Fritz Fellowship for Research on Medicalized Childbirth in China
May 16, 2023
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GWSS Faculty Priti Ramamurthy and Regina Yung Lee Honored at the 2023 UW Awards of Excellence Ceremony
May 11, 2023
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Bobbi Kindred Awarded UW College of Arts & Sciences' Prestigious Alvord Endowed Fellowship
May 1, 2023
2023 Husky 100
2023 Husky 100
April 24, 2023
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fabian romero Selected as Graduate School Gonfalonier for UW Commencement
April 19, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Prestigious 2023-24 American Dissertation Fellowship 
April 18, 2023
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Marika Cifor Awarded Grant to Develop Spanish-Language Homosaurus 
April 6, 2023
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UW Sustainability Contest Awards Second Place Prize to Celine Waldmann's Trash Art Piece 'Reinvestment'
April 5, 2023
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2023 GWSS Award Nominations Open!
April 3, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Competitive Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship
March 22, 2023
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Hwasook Nam Honored with 2023 James B. Palais Book Prize 
March 7, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded the Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research
February 16, 2023
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Cricket Keating and Michelle Habell-Pallan Receive UW Global Innovation Awards
January 4, 2023
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GWSS Faculty & Graduate Students Recipients of UW Simpson Center Awards 
December 27, 2022
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Sasha Su-Ling Welland Awarded the Katz Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities
December 27, 2022
Harriet Dumba, a dark-skinned black woman with long braids pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a blue blouse and patterned skirt, holding her 2022 GWSS Alumni Award plaque and smiling at the camera.
2022 GWSS Alumni Awardee Harriet Poni Dumba: “There is so much work for us to do out there.”  
December 15, 2022
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Genius Award for GWSS Alum// Perspectives
November 14, 2022
Image of woman (Martha Gonzalez) sitting in the middle of a couch playing a guitar with her son and husband on either side of her also playing guitars.
Martha Gonzalez Receives 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
October 13, 2022
Shuxuan Zhou
Shuxuan Zhou's Essay "The Posthumous Child" Wins Grand Prize in Sixth Tone Writing Contest
September 12, 2022
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Nastasia Paul-Gera Selected for the Graduate School's 2022 Distinguished Thesis Award 
August 9, 2022
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Cricket Keating Receives Fellowship for Her Book and a UW Labor Studies Grant to Develop a New Course
July 18, 2022
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Amanda Swarr Receives Fellowship for Her Book and Serves as Co-Editor of “The Intersex Issue” of TSQ
July 18, 2022
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Graduate Student Recognition Roundup
July 18, 2022
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Two New PhDs in Feminist Studies
July 18, 2022
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Nastasia Paul-Gera Receives Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship 
July 13, 2022
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fabian romero Receives the GSEE Foundry 10 Summer Support Fund Award and a Scholarship to the VONA (Voices of a Nation) Summer Writing Workshop
June 13, 2022
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GWSS Ph.D. Candidate, Jey Saung, Receives the Prestigious Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship  
June 6, 2022
Guardians of the Gonfalon
GWSS Ph.D. Candidate, Yingyi Wang, Selected to Carry the Gonfalon in this Year's Commencement Ceremony
May 23, 2022
Simona Liao
GWSS major, Simona Liao, awarded Husky 100 
May 23, 2022
Ramon Johnson
Ramon Johnson awarded the Clyde Taylor Award for Distinguished Work in African American and Africana Studies
May 13, 2022
Ramon Johnson Accepting Women Engaged Award
Ramon Johnson Receives the Alumni Award from Women Engaged
May 5, 2022
Zhehui (Simona) Liao
Simona Liao Member of Husky 100
April 25, 2022
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Kemi Adeyemi is a 2022 Lammy Finalist
April 11, 2022
Michelle Morado
Michelle Morado, GWSS PhD Candidate, awarded impressive Crybaby Studios Residency
March 29, 2022
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GWSS Professor Adeyemi's "Queer Nightlife" is a finalist for a prestigious Lambda Literary Award 
March 16, 2022
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GWSS Awards: Nominations Open!
February 15, 2022
Chican@ Artivistas Book Cover
GWSS Alum, Dr. Martha Gonzalez, wins a gold medal for her book, Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles
November 8, 2021
Awards of Excellence
Awards of Excellence
June 15, 2021
Husky 100
Husky 100
June 15, 2021
Awards of Excellence
Awards of Excellence
June 14, 2021
Husky 100
Husky 100
June 14, 2021
Michelle Habell-Pallan receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
Michelle Habell-Pallán receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
June 11, 2021
Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi Receives the Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre Studies
December 1, 2020
Jiwoon Yulee
Jiwoon Yulee Wins NWSA/UIP First Book Prize
October 28, 2020
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Jey Saung receives Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
August 31, 2020
Stephanie Yingyi Wang
Stephanie Yingyi Wang receives a Martha H. Duggan Fellowship in Caring Labor from Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
August 31, 2020
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Iris Viveros Avendano receives 2020-2021 GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowship
August 31, 2020