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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

  • Yi-Ru Anny Chen ‘09 for “Writing, Memory, and Desire: The Lover and Firebird,” part of a Special Studies: “Memory: (Re)writing Sexuality” in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender
  • Olivia Cummings ‘09 for “Race, Radicalism, and the Wandering Jew: Rethinking Emma Goldman,” submitted to the Program in American Studies of Smith College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree ofBachelor of Arts

Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize

  • Katherine Morris ‘11 for a Memoir Portfolio written for SWG 260 The Cultural Work of
    Memoir

Meg Quigley Prize

  • Darcy Rendon ’11 for “‘They Depart with Their Hands Full and Leave Us with Our Hands Empty’: Globalization from a Maquiladora Worker's Perspective”