WELCOME!

Since 1977, the Center for the Study of Women and Society has promoted interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. The focus of the Center's research agenda is the study of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nation in relationship to the experiences of women and men in societies around the world.

The Center co-sponsors with the Women's Studies Certificate Program intellectual exchange symposia and lectures--- among scholars within CUNY as well as with visiting scholars. The Center also seeks to collaborate with grassroots and professional organizations.

CONTACT

Center for the Study of Women and Society
Anne Humpherys, Director
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212.817.8895
Fax: 212.817.2988
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/womencenter

Send questions and/or comments to:
AHumpherys@gc.cuny.edu

Nina E. Fortin Memorial Fund Dissertation Proposal Award

The annual Nina E. Fortin Dissertation Proposal Award of $300 plus tuition will be given to a student in any Ph.D. Program at The Graduate School who submits an outstanding dissertation proposal that addresses an issue of concern in the lives of women from a feminist perspective. While special consideration will be given to those proposals that examine a health-related issue, any Ph.D. proposal that has been accepted by the student's program is eligible. In the event that no proposals qualify for the award, it will not be given until the following year.

Please submit a 5-page summary of the proposal, including a brief bibliography (hardcopy and a Word document on a PC formatted 3.5" disk). Underscore its feminist perspective, research design, and policy implications for the lives of women. Please attach a two-page statement on the progress of the dissertation to date, with a tentative timetable for completion, and two references. Attach a completed cover page available from the Women's Studies Certificate Program in Room 5116 or click here for application.

For further information, contact the Graduate Center Women's Studies Office at 212-817-8905 or e-mail Elizabeth Small.

Submissions should be sent to:

Ms. Elizabeth Small
Women’s Studies Certificate Program, Room 5116
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-817-8905

Deadline for submissions: May 26, 2007

The Award will be announced by June 30, 2007

2004-2005 Recipient
Melanie Panitch, Social Welfare

2003-2004 Recipient
Ann Wallace, English, "Inscribed in Skin: Gender, Trauma and Marked Bodies"

2002-2003 Recipient
Sarah Carney, Psychology, "Analyzing Cases of 'Failure-to-Protect': Legal, Media, and Maternal Narratives"

2001-2002 Recipient
Anne Hayes, History, "Rich Coast: Export-Led Economic Growth and the Rise of Female Prostitution in the Port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 1880-1940
Melissa Ditmore, Sociology (Honorable Mention)
 

This Award was established by friends and family of Nina E. Fortin.

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize

The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding feminist dissertation in the humanities completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in a given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize feminist scholarship consonant with the broad intellectual aims of Carolyn Heilbrun's work.

To be considered for the prize, candidates must submit a hard copy of the completed dissertation, a dissertation abstract on a 3 ½" PC formatted disk (Word document), and a letter from the dissertation sponsor or the Executive Officer of the relevant program, in the spring semester preceding graduation. These materials should be directed to Elizabeth Small, Women's Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5116. The amount of the award will be determined each year, in relation to the monies available usually between $200 and $300. The prize will not be awarded in a given year unless the committee agrees that the dissertation is worthy of distinction.

The competition for the Carolyn G. Heilbrun prize will be open to dissertations completed between April 1, 2006 and April 30, 2007.

For further information, contact the Graduate Center Women's Studies Office at 212-817-8905 or e-mail Elizabeth Small.

Submissions should be sent to:

Ms. Elizabeth Small
Women’s Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-817-8905

Deadline for submissions: May 26, 2007  

The prize will be announced at the end of June.

2004-2005 Recipients
Christine Rudisel, English
Karen Winkler, Clinical Psychology

2003-2004 Recipient
Kimberly Engber, English, "Intimate Observers: American Women Writers in an Ethnographic Tradition"
Debra Wacks, Art History, Honorable Mention

2002-2003 Recipient
Jennifer Disney, Political Science
Sara Claire Peacock Raymond, English

2001-2002 Recipient
Susan H. Berg, School of Social Work, Hunter College

2000-2001 Recipient
Robin Hackett, English
Gay Wachman, English
 

Conviction Project Seminar Fellowships

The Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) hosts The Conviction Project Seminar. This seminar is an extension of our College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a program for formerly incarcerated women who are pursuing higher education and are engaged in political organizing. The Conviction Project Seminar is an extension of our College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a program located at the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS) for formerly incarcerated women who are pursuing higher education and are engaged in political organizing. For Fall 2005, the seminar continues to focus on issues of personal, moral, and political conviction in the context of education and incarceration and takes up scholarship from various disciplines, from the highly theoretical essay to the focused empirical study, along with literary texts, such as novels, films, and poetry. In doing so, the Seminar considers the conditions and experience of imprisonment in body, mind, and spirit - both within and outside of prisons, especially in relationship to the particulars of race, age, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. Our theme for Fall 2005 is Affect Economy, and Psychopolitics.

We are accepting applications from graduate students to participate in the Seminar, held at the Center for the Study of Women and Society once every three weeks.

The stipend is $500 a seminar and the number of fellows to be awarded varies in relation to monies available.

Please submit a one page description of your interest in the subject matter of the seminar and how the seminar will further your own work.

This award is no longer offered.  However, past award recipients are listed below.

2004-2005 Fellows 
Jamie Skye Bianco, English
Stephanie Campos, Anthropology
Una Chung, English
Robert Diaz, English
Maggie Dickinson, English
Fatmir Haskaj, Sociology
Aleksandra Wagner, Sociology
Will Weikart, Sociology
Dominic Wetzel, Sociology
Kate Wilson
Krystyna Zamorska, English

2003-2004 Fellows
Charlyn Hilliman, Criminal Justice
Michael Jolley, Sociology
Rachel Porter, Sociology

2002-2003 Fellows
Debra Kram-Fernandez, Social Welfare
Christina Pratt, Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Toohey, English

2001-2002 Fellows
Jamie Skye Bianco, English
Deborah Gambs, Sociology
Jean Halley, Sociology
Laurie Prendergast, Fine Arts

2000-2001 Fellows
Claudio Benzecry, Sociology
Manolo Guzman, Sociology
Grace Mitchell, Sociology
Maria Torre, Social Psychology
 

Time Warner Cable Scholarship Award

Three scholarships, each $1700, were given for the 2004-2005 school year to assist deserving doctoral students pursuing scholarly research in the study of gender and sexuality.  Special attention was given to research that addresses media/digital technologies.

This award is no longer offered.  However, past award recipients are listed below.

Recipients
Una Chung, English
Craig Willse, Sociology
Greg Goldberg, Sociology
J. Heather Wiley, Sociology 

Rockefeller Foundation Seminar Awards

The National Council for Research on Women and The Center for the Study of Women and Society will be the site of a Rockefeller Foundation funded seminar: "Global Capitalism, Finding Human Security: A Gendered Critique."  For more information, click the seminar title above or contact Patricia T. Clough, Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society, at 212-817-8896 or email PClough@gc.cuny.edu.

This award is no longer offered.  However, past award recipients are listed below.

2003-2004 Recipients
Jamie Skye Bianco, English
Una Chung, English
Ching-Ning Wang, Sociology
 

Helena Rubinstein Award

This award is no longer offered.  However, past award recipients are listed below.

2002-2003 Recipients
Ilisa Lam, Anthopology
Christina Pratt, Criminal Justice
Debra Wacks, Art History
Tracyann Williams, English

2001-2002 Recipients
Jamie Skye Bianco, English
Grace E. Mitchell, Sociology
Elizabeth Toohey, English
Elizabeth Wissinger, English

2000-2001 Recipients
Melissa Ditmore, Sociology
Laura Fantone, Sociology
Katherine Harris, English
Susanna Jones, Social Welfare
Ann Wallace, English

Lucille Field Goodman Fellowship

This award is no longer offered.  However, past award recipients are listed below.

2004-2005 Fellows
None

2003-2004 Fellows
Heather Laurel Feldman, Music
Julia Grella, Music

2001-2002/2002-2003 Fellows
None

2000-2001 Fellow
Andrea Saposnik, Music

SUE ROSENBERG ZALK TRAVEL AWARD

The Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel Award of $500.00 will be awarded to a student enrolled in the Women's Studies Certificate Program who needs to travel to an archive, library, or other source in order to complete his or her research. Preference will be given to students who are at the dissertation stage. Students who wish to be considered for the award should submit a copy of your transcript, a description of your project and the travel that is necessary for its completion (five pages maximum), and a recommendation from your advisor.

Submissions should be sent either in hard copy or by mail to:

Elizabeth Small

esmall@gc.cuny.edu

Women’s Studies Certificate Program
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5116
New York, NY 10016-4309)

Deadline for submissions: November 1, 2007