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Women's and Gender 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 “women's and gender 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 second year, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University is proud to present the annual Women's and Gender Studies Award. This prize is meant to honor an undergraduate student for his or her excellence in research and writing in the fields of women and gender studies. (There is another prize for Queer Studies; students may submit their essay for consideration for only one prize). 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 women?s and gender studies with institutional support for their work.
The Women's and Gender 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 and graduate students who are responsible for selecting the winners. The committee encourages undergraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and majors to submit a paper focused on women and/or gender for consideration for the cash award. It encourages papers that investigate the connections between sex, gender, race, class, nationality, and religion. In keeping with the open spirit of investigation that characterizes interdisciplinary research, 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.
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.
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