Every year, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program presents its annual awards in honor of the late Dr. Nan Nowik, Associate Professor of English (1972-1988), former Women’s Coordinator, and co-founder of the Women’s Resource Center at Denison University. The awards were created to celebrate outstanding student work in academic scholarship, activism, and artistic expression. Here are this year’s winners!
Justine Emma Morelli - Senior Research
Deconstructing Reproductive Rhetoric: Narrative Recollections of Fertility Control, Reproductive Access & Treatment
Makynzie Ashlyn Horvath - Senior Research
Issues of Embodiment: Historical Representations of Samoan Rugby Players and its Global Implications
Imaa Nicco-Annan - Senior Research
The Revival of Grassroots Women Empowerment: A Case Study of GaDangme Puberty Rites and the Role of the Queen Mother in Ghana
Chengyuan Guo - Essay
#BlackLivesMatter: The Womanist Leaderful Model in the Making
Sophia Grace Menconi - Essay
Carrying the Sins of Others: The Theology of Redemption and Black Womanhood in Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces
Joselin Samayoa Guerra - Activism
The Water Protectors Community Oral History Project
Náamah Leerdam - Activism
USVI Hurricane Relief Project
Kristine Grace McNulty - Activism
Open Chapters in Tri Delta
Celena Marie Gilmore - Artistic Expression
When 5 Becomes 2, Becomes 3, Becomes 1
