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2007 FELLOWSHIP AND AWARDS WINNERS | |||||||||||||||||||
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With a large number of qualified and impressive applications to consider, deciding on
winners is always a difficult process for the CLAGS fellowship committee. CLAGS is delighted to recognize and support
some of the exciting new work being done in the field of queer studies.
We send out special thanks to the generous
supporters who helped make these awards possible, particularly CLAGS founder
Martin Duberman, David Kessler, Diane Bernard, Joe Wittreich, and all the individual
contributors to our fellowships programs. 2007 MARTIN DUBERMAN FELLOWSHIP Clare Hemmings is Senior Lecturer in Gender Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK. Her project, “Bisexuality, Transnational Sexuality Studies and Western Colonial Legacies,” explores the work that bisexuality does within the expanding field of transnational sexuality studies. Clare asks why it is that bisexuality matters in relation to dilemmas within the field, particularly those concerning naming of sexual practices outside of contexts where sexual identity categories are readily available. Her focus is thus not on what bisexuality is, or which practices, where, might nestle under the term, but on what the absence or presence of bisexuality means for theorists of transnational sexuality. The work so far has highlighted ways in which citation of bisexuality locks transnational queer studies into a developmental paradigm it might otherwise wish to challenge.2007 JOAN HELLER-DIANE BERNARD FELLOWSHIPS Benita Roth is associate professor of sociology and women's studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave (Cambridge University Press 2004), which won the Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association in 2006. Her project, "Anti-AIDS Activism from the 1980s to the 2000s: From Streets to Suits," explores the rise and fall of one militant anti-AIDS organization, ACT UP/LA, in order to understand interrelated questions about lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual identity, activism, and the institutionalization of LGBT issues. She has previously published on ACT UP/LA's Women's Caucus, and on the feminist protest outside and within institutions. Shanti Pepper is a doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. She is involved with many projects, including a grounded theory study of multicultural development in counselors, an investigation of the purpose and function of relationship role models for the lesbian community, and a book chapter that explores approaches to fostering a climate for diversity for LGBT individuals in schools and in the workplace. She also recently submitted a manuscript for publication that addressed workplace concerns and obstacles faced by transsexual individuals. Shanti has been a member of PSU’s Counseling Psychology department’s LGBT research team for three years. Recent projects include an APA symposium on affirmative LGBT mentoring, as well as serving as a student editor for the Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients (Bieschke, Perez, & DeBord, 2007). Her dissertation research focuses on the role of self-efficacy beliefs in lesbian women’s romantic relationships. Specifically, the purpose is to develop and validate an instrument to assess the sources (i.e., past performance, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and emotional arousal) of lesbian women’s relationship self-efficacy and its effects on relationship satisfaction. 2007 PASSING THE TORCH AWARD Marcia M. Gallo is a lesbian social justice activist who has taught the history of sexuality, U.S. and New York history, and American Studies at Lehman College for the last three years. She is the author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement (Carroll & Graf, 2006), the first and only full-length work to explore the pioneering American women’s organization. It won the 2006 Lambda Literary Foundation Award for LGBT Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2006 Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award. Different Daughters also was named one of the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Gallo has researched and written about Cold War women’s history, focusing on the ways in which women of color, working and poor women, and sexually nonconforming women organized for civil and human rights in the U.S. and internationally. She is now working on a book about Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, who was murdered in Queens, New York in 1964 and became an international symbol of urban apathy and the failure of community. |
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