The Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication (OFRGC) promotes dialogue, discussion, research, and scholarship concerned with women, feminism, gender, oppression, and social change.OFRGC seeks to advance understandings of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, including transgender politics, masculinity, dis/ability, labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory.
OFRGC is a Western States Communication Association (WSCA) affiliate, sponsors programs at the WSCA convention, and publishes a journal: Women’s Studies in Communication.
We gathered in Reno for WSCA in February 2024. The program included many great OFRGC panels, including our award winners and travel grant recipients.
Awards
We are delighted to announce this year's awardees! Their excellent work is indicative of the feminist and queer intersectional work that it is OFRGC's mission to support and enable:
2023 Feminist Scholar of the Year Award
Dr. Shui-Yin Sharon Yam & Dr. Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, for their article "Against Gender Essentialism: Reproductive Justice Doulas and Gender Inclusivity in Pregnancy and Birth Discourse"
Top Paper Award (2024)
Dustin Martinez, "Brownness and the Brown Commons: The Pluriverse of Feeling Brown through a Queer Encounter with Corridos”
Top Student Paper Award (2024)
Stephany Genesis Rojas-Hidalgo, "Circe’s Retelling: (Re)understood through Class, Desire, and Race"
Top Student Paper Award (2024)
Lauren L. Buisker, "Erasing Race: Convenience Memories of Anita Hill and Rhetorics of White Worthy Victimhood in Coverage of the Ford/Kavanaugh Hearings"
Brenda J. Allen Travel Grant Recipients (2024):
Stephany Genesis Rojas-Hidalgo, Arizona State University
Dustin Martinez, University of Colorado Boulder
Congratulations to our 2023 Research Development Grant winners:
Jacqueline N. Gunning, University of Connecticut- Exploring (Dis)Enfranchising Healthcare Experiences of African American, Latina/o/x, and American Indian/Alaskan Native Women with Autoimmune Disease
Taylor Mack, Columbus State University, Does This Look Okay? Examining Self-Presentation Expectations for Corporate Women using Communication Theory of Identity
Satarupa Dasgupta, Ramapo College of New Jersey, The impact of mobility and visibility on stigmatization and support services access and utilization among nonbrothel-based transient sex workers in India
Jaclyn H. Nolan, University of Georgia, Willie McGee and the Legacy of Legal Lynching
Thank you to our grant and award reviewing committees for your labor!
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The ORWAC Journal, Women's Studies in Communication (WSIC), provides a feminist forum for diverse scholarship addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions in the form of research, reviews, and commentary with the potential to advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture.
Research Development GrantsThe Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication invites submissions for our Research Development Grants. Members are eligible to apply for one of three grants that support scholars at different levels of their career: M.A. students, PhD students, and instructors or tenure/track faculty. Each grant offers a maximum of $2,500.00. Grants are designed to assist feminist scholars completing research or creative projects that privilege and advance understandings about the intersectionality and complexity defining women’s lives. Broadly speaking, submitted projects are those that:
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Brenda J. Allen Travel GrantBrenda J. Allen Travel Grant Endowment funds travel for Women, Trans, and Non-Binary Graduate Students of Color. Professor Allen has been a pathbreaker in the field of communication, and has devoted her career to ensuring that communication and the academy as a whole are more equitable and inclusive places. Her scholarship has been foundational in intercultural, organizational, and feminist communication studies, and her mentorship record is unparalleled. She is also a long-time member of ORWAC and has played a leadership role for years, most notably as our first "web spinner." This is why ORWAC wants to endow a student travel award in her name to honor this legacy. Our goal is to raise $20,000, which will give ORWAC enough funds to provide $1000 annually to be used toward these travel grants. We are asking for your help to make this happen and to show your support of the legacy of Professor Allen. Please donate to the endowment here: |
The Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication (OFRGC) promotes dialogue, discussion, research, and scholarship concerned with women, feminism, gender, oppression, and social change. OFRGC seeks to advance understandings of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, including transgender politics, masculinity, dis/ability, labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory. OFRGC is a Western States Communication Association (WSCA) affiliate, publishes a journal: Women's Studies in Communication, and sponsors programs at the WSCA convention.
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