CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant

by Thomas R. Schmidt, PhD, Research Fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics

In 1969, the Washington Post was the first major American newspaper to replace its women’s pages with a lifestyle section. Introducing the Style section was one of the most lasting legacies of famed Post editor Ben Bradlee. As he later described the launch of Style, “We wanted to look at the culture of America as it was changing in front of our eyes. The sexual revolution, the drug culture, the women’s movement. And we wanted to be interesting, exciting, different.”¹

by Sarah Ahmed, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

by Helen Yi-lun Huang, Graduate Student, Department of English

“Yes, we have no bananas

We have-a no bananas today.”

by Katie Warden, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

by Amanda Morris, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology

At conferences, I am often asked, “Why are you interested in studying older adults?” My answer is simple; I believe aging is the future. 

by Alia Yasen is a PhD candidate in the Department of  Human Physiology

By Margaret Bostrom, PhD candidate, Department of English

by Lacey M. Guest, Master’s Student, Department of History, and Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

by Lola Loustaunau, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology

“One time I hurt my back, because the work there is really heavy, and I remember she [the human resource director] made me cry, gave a warning and wouldn’t let me go to the doctor, and I felt so bad,” said Mercedes, a bakery worker, while seated on her couch. It’s an icy winter morning and we have been talking for a while. Although I had asked about work injuries the answer that Mercedes gave me went beyond stating that she had, in fact, injured her back while working. 

by Angela Rovak, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English

Even before she turned ten years old, Octavia E. Butler knew she was destined to be a writer. In an interview with The New York Times in 2000, Butler recalls that,