2003 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship           

  • Barbara Sutton, Sociology, "Body Politics and Women's Consciousness in Argentina"

Faculty Research Grants

  • Aletta Biersack, Anthropology, “Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage in a Changing Papua New Guinea Society”
  • Jocelyn Hollander, Sociology, “Sexual Violence Against Women: The Role of Self-Defense Training”
  • Nathalie Hester, Romance Languages, “The 'Empire of Women' and Women's Travel Writing in 17th-Century France"
  • Anita Weiss, International Studies, “An Islamist Victory in NWFP, Pakistan: a Defeat for Women's Rights?”
  • Kate Westhaver, Creative Writing, “The Wilderness Experience in American Women's Writing”

Graduate Student Research Grants            

  • Chaone Mallory, Environmental Studies, “Subject to the laws of nature: Ecofeminism, subjectivity, and political representation”
  • Jessica Cole, Anthropology, "Performing Purity: Eros and Agency in the Christian Right"
  • Jennifer Erickson, Anthropology, “Romani Women, a neglected population: Race, class, and gender in Bosnia-Herzegovina”
  • Jennifer S. Duncan, History, “Diffusing Ideas: Intellectual Women in Paris since 1945”
  • Kristina Tiedje, Anthropology, “Mapping Nature, constructing culture: Gender and the politics of difference in the Huasteca, Mexico”
  • Holly LeMasurier, International Studies, “Underrepresented perspectives on Indigenous Cultural Survival in Southern Africa: Toward the development of a cultural impact statement for the Done Ju/'hoansi”
  • Melissa Cheyney, Anthropology, "In Transition: A Biocultural Ethnography of American Homebirth"

CSWS Laurel Research Award

  • Xin Yang, East Asian Languages and Literatures, "From 'Beauty Fear' to 'Beauty Fever': The Representation of Feminine Beauty in Chinese Urban Fiction of the 1990s"