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Queer Studies Prize
$250 prize money
All Columbia, General Studies, and Barnard College undergraduates are invited to submit their best papers for consideration. Papers from every discipline, on any topic within “queer studies”—broadly defined—will be judged anonymously by an interdisciplinary committee of Columbia and Barnard faculty and graduate students.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: NOON, APRIL 20, 2009
For the fourteenth year, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University is proud to present the Queer Studies Award. Established in 1994, this prize is meant to honor an undergraduate student for his or her excellence in research and writing in the rapidly growing fields of queer studies, queer theory, and gender studies. Its purpose is twofold: to recognize undergraduate students - who often have few opportunities for such recognition - for their superb intellectual achievement, and to provide students interested in the discipline with an instructional framework in which to work.
The Queer Studies Awards Committee is composed of Columbia University faculty and staff who organize and coordinate the awards, and an interdisciplinary group of Columbia University and Barnard College faculty who are responsible for selecting the winners. The committee encourages undergraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to submit a paper for consideration for the cash award. It encourages papers that investigate the connections between sexuality, gender, race, class, nationality, and religion. In keeping with the open spirit of investigation that characterizes these disciplines, the committee sets no topical, ideological, or methodological requirements for submissions, and generally looks for papers that exhibit clarity, originality, ambition, and those that are informed by, and engage in, large critical issues.
The Queer Studies Group will continue its support of undergraduates through the annual Queer Studies Awards. For more information, please stop by the Institute for an application packet or you may download a pdf version here. Any further inquiries, please contact us at 212.854.3277, or write to: irwag@columbia.edu.
Past Queer Studies Prize Winners
2006
Kat Lewis - "Multi-Issue Organizing in the New York Gay Liberation Front, 1969-1971"
2007
Jonah Hassenfeld - "Methodological Critique: An Archeology of Narrative"
Chad Miller (Honorable Mention) - "The Queering of St. Sebastian: Collective Memory and the Emergence of Gay Spirituality"
2008
Daniel Altabef - "Private Sex-Public Performance"
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