Welcome
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.
Announcements
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:
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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
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Taylor Mack, Columbus State University, Does This Look Okay? Examining Self-Presentation Expectations for Corporate Women using Communication Theory of Identity
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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
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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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