Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel Award

The Sue Rosenberg Zalk Travel Award of $4000.00 will be awarded to a student enrolled in the Women’s Studies Certificate Program who needs to travel to an archive, library, or other source in order to complete his or her research. Preference will be given to students who are at the dissertation stage. Students who wish to be considered for the award should submit a copy of your transcript and a description of your project and the travel that is necessary for its completion (five pages maximum) to csws@gc.cuny.edu. A letter of recommendation from the student’s advisor should be sent to the same address, with the student’s name and award name in the subject line.

Deadline for submissions for the Fall 2019 award is December 16th, 2019.

The prize will be announced at the beginning the Spring 2020 semester.

 

Koonja Mitchell Award

The Koonja Mitchell Memorial Prize will be awarded to a student in any Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center working on a dissertation concerned with issues of social justice. Special consideration will be given to work on militarism and trauma.

To be considered for the prize, candidates must submit a 10-page dissertation prospectus and a CV to csws@gc.cuny.edu. A letter of recommendation from the student’s advisor should be sent to the same address, with the student’s name and award name in the subject line.

The deadline for proposals is December 16th, 2019.

The amount of the award is $500. The prize will be announced at the beginning the Spring 2020 semester.

 

Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize

The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize will be awarded to an outstanding feminist dissertation in the humanities completed at the CUNY Graduate Center in a given academic year. The prize is meant to recognize feminist scholarship consonant with the broad intellectual aims of Carolyn Heilbrun’s work.

To be considered for the prize, candidates must submit the completed dissertation and a dissertation abstract by email. A letter of recommendation from an advisor, committee member, or EO of the student’s program should be emailed separately. These materials should be directed to csws@gc.cuny.edu with the students name in the subject line. The amount of the award is $300. The prize will not be awarded in a given year unless the committee agrees that the dissertation is worthy of distinction. Open to dissertations completed between April 1, 2019 and April 30, 2020.

Deadline for submissions: April 29th, 2020.
The prize will be announced at the end of May.