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Past winners

The Jeanne McFarland Prize and the Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize are awarded annually by the Program for the Study of Women and Gender and the Project on Women and Social Change for excellent work in the study of women and gender. The Meg Quigley Prize is awarded annually for the best work in SWG 150 Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender.

Jeanne McFarland Prize

  • Katelyn Lucy ’09 for “Thari Ya Sechaba:Traditional Midwives and Gaborone Birth
    Culture In the Age of AIDS, ” written as part of her coursework at Pitzer College,
    Botswana
  • Morgan Woolsey ’08 for “Ultrasounds: Maternal Voice in the Soundscape of the Modern
    Horror Film,” an honors thesis submitted to the Program for the Study of Women and Gender
    of Smith College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts

Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize

  • Courtney Fields ’08 for a Memoir Portfolio written for SWG 260 The Cultural Work of
    Memoir
  • Laurie Guerrero-Garces ’08 for “Sundays After Breakfast:a True Story of Food, Family,
    and the Saints that Saved Them,” a Sophia Smith Scholars Project
  • China Sajadian ’08 for “Reconstructing Gender and Activism: The Case of Women’s
    Initiatives in Al-Wihdat Refugee Camp,” written as part of her coursework at the School
    for International Training, Jordan
  • Mariah Wyman ’09J for “Language, Community and Lesbian Identity in The Ladder’”
    written for SWG 315 Sexual Histories, Lesbian Stories

Meg Quigley Prize

  • Aiden Leigh Bartelt ’11 For “Life Takes Visa, La Vida Toma Visa: Navigating the
    Cardholding Intersection of Language, Race, Class and Gender”
  • Leah Sakala ’11 For “There are No Female Marines, Only Marines: Marine Corps Market
    in Black Women”