Every year, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program presents its annual awards in honor of the late 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, artistic expression, and essay. Here are this year’s winners!
- Virginia Lawrence ’25 — Senior Research (first place); How Equitas Health Advocates for The LGBTQ+ and HIV/AIDS Community in 2024 and 2025
- Noah Chartier ’25 — Senior Research (honorable mention); Towards an Erotic Masculinity: Audre Lorde’s Insight to Unpacking Desire
- Students for Justice in Palestine — Activism (first place)
- Diana Avila-Callejas ’26 — Artistic Expression (first place - tie); The Watermelon Seeds We Cannot Bury: Memory, Grief and Resistance Across Borders
- Selena Mendez ’25 — Artistic Expression (first place - tie); Non-Chronological Anthology of Ingredients to Make My Chin
- Mia Hennum ’26 — Essay (first place); Black Feminist Thought Final
- Ahn Mia Tran ’25 — Essay (honorable mention); Myself, Quantified: From Mood Tracking to Practicing Feminism
June 16, 2025
