Honors and Awards

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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Competitive Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship
March 22, 2023
Cover of the book "Women in the Sky," featuring an industrialized birds-eye view of a city from atop construction equipment.
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
A picture of Jey Saung wearing a black jean jacket, white shirt, and a big smile. They are standing in front of a line of trees.
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
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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
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Awards of Excellence
June 15, 2021
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Husky 100
June 15, 2021
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Awards of Excellence
June 14, 2021
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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
Jey Saung
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
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UW president, biochemistry chair and mathematics professor named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 23, 2020
Mediha Sorma awarded Sawyer Seminar Fellowship
Graduate student, Mediha Sorma, awarded Pre-Doctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship
March 4, 2020
Sasha Welland book Experimental Beijing wins Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
Sasha Welland receives Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies
February 18, 2020
American Sabor receives 2019 ARSC Award
American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music ... receives ARSC Award
October 11, 2019
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American Sabor wins Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence
October 10, 2019
Christina Yuen Zi Chung receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Christina Yuen Zi Chung receives Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
May 7, 2019
Mediha Sorma receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Mediha Sorma Receives Graduate School Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
May 6, 2019
Yingyi Wang receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Stephanie Yingyi Wang, Receives the Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
May 6, 2019
Amanda Lock Swarr
Amanda Lock Swarr receives UW 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
April 24, 2019
Yingyi Wang receives Overseas Young Chinese Forum Fellowship for Field Research in China
Yingyi Wang receives a Overseas Young Chinese Forum Fellowship for Field Research in China
April 16, 2019
Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi receives Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship
April 11, 2019
Jey Saung receives 2018 Marie Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching
GWSS graduate student, Jey Saung, receives the 2018 Marie Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching
October 5, 2018