Grant Awardees

For information about the Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

CSWS Annual Review research articles and other outcomes

Christina Faiver-Serna, 2020, Department of Geography, “Geographies of Environmental Racism and the M(other)work of Promotoras de Salud.”

Celeste Reeb, 2019, Department of English, “Closed Captioning: Reading Between the Lines.”

Laura Strait, 2018, Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, “Occupying a Third Place: Pro-Life Feminism, Legible Politics, and the Edge of Women’s Liberation.”

Yi Yu, 2017, Department of Geography: “Institutional Mother, Professional Caregivers: Biopolitics of Affective Labor in Chinese State-owned Social Welfare Institutions.”

Baran Germen, 2016, Department of Comparative Literature. “Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Narratives of Gendered Victimhood, Affect, and Politics.”

Iván Sandoval-Cervantes, 2015, Department of Anthropology, “The Intersections of Transnational and Internal Indigenous Migration: Gender, Kinship, and Care.”

Jenée Wilde, 2014, Department of English (Folklore); “Speculative Fictions, Bisexual Lives: Changing Frameworks of Non-Binary Desire.”

Miriam Abelson, 2013, Department of Sociology; “Transgender Experiences and Transmasculinities in Three U.S. Regions.”

Easther Chigumira, 2012, Department of Geography; “Re-peasantization under the Fast Track Land Reform Program: Implications for Gender, Livelihoods and the Natural Environment, Sanyati District, Zimbabwe.”

Meagan Evans, 2011, Department of English; “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation.”

Ingrid L. Nelson, 2010, Department of Geography; “Gender Equity and Sustainable Rural Development in Zambezia, Mozambique.”

Jennifer Erickson, 2009, Department of Anthropology; “Gendered Citizenship and the State in a Neoliberal Era: Refugees and Social Service Organizations in Fargo, North Dakota.”

Alison Altstatt, 2008, School of Music and Dance, “The Music and Liturgy of Kloster Preetz: Ritual Practice in a North German Women’s Community, 1350-1550.”

Courtney P. Smith, 2007, Department of Political Science, “Politics of the Marked Body: An Examination of Female Genital Cutting and Breast Implantation.”

Mandolin R. Brassaw, 2006, Department of English; “Divine Heresy: Feminist Revisions of Sacred Texts.”

Hee-Jung Serenity Joo, 2005, Department of Comparative Literature, “Speculative Fiction and the Spectacle of Race: The Nation as Utopian Be/longing in the 20th Century Asian-American and African-American Futurist Narratives.”