Feminist Scholarship Award Recipients
Annually awarded for the top essay published in Women’s Studies in Communication
2022 - Nicole Williams Barnes, Catherine Helen Palczewski, and Heather Nicole Lund
“The Only Thing Red About Her”: Personal Intertextual Palimpsests in Lucille Ball’s HUAC Testimony
2021 - Alyson Farzad-Phillips
Huddles or Hurdles? Spatial Barriers to Collective Gathering in the Aftermath of the Women's March
2020 - Jenna Hanchey
Doctors Without Burdens: The Neocolonial Ambivalence of White Masculinity in International Medical Aid
2019 - Shuzhen Huang & Daniel C. Brouwer
Negotiating Performances of “Real” Marriage in Chinese Queer Xinghun
2018 - Raquel Moreira
"'Now that I'm a Whore, Nobody is Holding Me Back!': Women in Favela Funk and Embodied Politics"
2017 - Mary Jane Collier, Brandi Lawless & Karambu Ringera
"Negotiating Contextually Contingent Agency: Situated Feminist Peacebuilding Strategies in Kenya"
2016 - Kathleen M. de Onis
"Lost in Translation: Challenging (White, Monolingual Feminism's) <Choice> with Justicia Reproductiva"
2015 - Davi Thornton
"Transformations of the Ideal Mother: The Story of Mommy Economicus and Her Amazing Brain"
2014 - Tasha N. Dubriwny & Vandhana Ramadurai
"Framing Birth: Postfeminism in the Delivery Room"
2013 - Jordynn Jack
"Gender Copia: Feminist Rhetorical Perspectives on an Autistic Concept of Sex/Gender"
2012 - Virginia McCarver
"The Rhetoric of Choice and 21st-Century Feminism: Online Conversations About Work, Family, and Sarah Palin"
2011 - Karma Chavez
“Spatializing Gender Performativity: Ecstasy and Possibilities for Livable Life in the Tragic Case of Victoria Arellano”
2010 - Sonja K. Foss & Karen A. Foss
“Our Journey to Repowered Feminism: Expanding the Feminist Toolbox”
2010 - Aimee Carrillo Rowe
“Subject to Power--Feminism Without Victims”
2009 - John W. Howard III & Laura C. Prividera
“The Fallen Woman Archetype: Media Representations of Lynndie England, Gender, and the (Ab)uses of U.S. Female Soldiers”
2009 - Christine Garlough
“The Risks of Acknowledgment: Performing the Sex-Selection Identification and Abortion Debate”
2008 - Sherianne Shuler
“Autoethnographic Emotion: Studying and Living Emotional Labor in the Scholarly Life”
2007 - Kim Golombisky
“Gendering the Interview: Feminist Reflections on Gender as Performance in Research”
2006 - Monique A. Myers & Mary Jane Collier
“Cultural Ascriptions Displayed by Restraining Order Court Representatives: Implicating Patriarchy and Cultural Dominance”
2005 - Christina R. Foust
“A Return to Feminine Public Virtue: Judge Judy and the Myth of the Tough Mother”
2004 - Angela Ray
“Representing the Working Class in Early U.S. Feminist Media: The Case of Hester Vaughn”
2003 - Karrin Vasby Anderson
“Hillary Rodham Clinton as ‘Madonna’: The Role of Metaphor and Oxymoron in Image Restoration”
2002 - Helene A. Shugart
“Isn’t it Ironic? The Intersection of Third-Wave Feminism and Generation X”
2001 - Anne Teresa Demo
“The Guerilla Girls’ Comic Politics of Subversion”
2000 - Radha S. Hegde
“Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal body and the Politics of Reproduction in a South Indian Context”
1999 - Janice Hocker Rushing
“Putting Away Childish Things: Looking at Diana’s Funeral and Media Criticism”
1998 - Rhonda G. Parker
“The Influence of Sexual Infidelity, Verbal Intimacy, and Gender Upon Primary Appraisal Processes in Romantic Jealousy”
1997 - Jill Bernie Henke, Diane Zimmerman Umble & Nancy J. Smith
“Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine”
1996 - Rona Tamiko Halualani
“The Intersecting Hegemonic Discourses of an Asian Mail-Order Bride Catalog: Pilipina ‘Oriental Butterfly’ Dolls for Sale”
1995 - Cindy L. Griffin
“A Feminist Perspective on Age: Anne Noggle’s Photographs on Women and Aging”
1995 - Cheree Carlson
“Aspasia of Miletus: How One Woman Disappeared from the History of Rhetoric”
1994 - Nina Gregg
“Politics of Identity/Politics of Location: Women Workers Organizing in a Postmodern World”
1992 - Sharon Downey & Karen Rasmussen
“The Irony of Sophie’s Choice”
