GWS held our annual awards day on April 29, 2026. Congratulations to all of our award winners:
- 2026 Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement: Jocelyn Porschia.
- 2026 Kate Black Award for Activism: Sophia Landfield.
- 2026 Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award: Caroline Beyer.
- 2025-26 Tomasky Leaders: Courtney Crittenden.
- GWS graduate certificate awardees: Hunter Savage, Abigail Moore.
- 2026 OPSVAW Graduate Fellowship: Rebecca Lentjes.
Congratulations to Rebecca Lentjes for winning the 2026-27 ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Innovation Fellowship. You can read the announcement and about Reb's dissertation project here.
Congratulations to Shruhti Parthasarathy, who won a 2025-26 Arts and Sciences Certificate for Outstanding Teaching.
Congratulations to our newest GWS Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Jingxue Zhang.
Rebecca Lentjes' journal article "Ableism and Abortion: The Exceptionalization of Fetal Disability in 'Pro-Life; and ;Pro-Choice; Pregnancy Narratives," has been published in American Studies. Reb's essay, "Gendered Sonic Violence, from the Waiting Room to the Locker Room" has been included in the book "Power in Listening: The Sounding Out! Reader," which will be published this August by NYU Press.
Norah Chow has been accepted to the Digital IDEAS summer institute at the University of Michigan.
Congratulations to Aria Halliday, Anastasia Todd and Elizabeth Williams for receiving 2026 CURATE awards.
Congratulations to Charlie Zhang and Mel Stein, who were named to the Gaines Humanities Cooperatives.
Congratulations to Anastasia Todd, whose book "Cripping Girlhood" has won the Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, awarded by the National Women's Studies Association for a groundbreaking monograph in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies that makes significant contributions to feminist disability studies scholarship.
Ellen Riggle was selected as a recipient of the 2025 Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize for outstanding contributions to research at the University of Kentucky.
Congratulations to Frances Henderson for winning a 2025 UK Outstanding Teaching Award.
