Selected Profile
Susan Casteras
WS '75
When the Danforth Foundation funding that supported Susan Casteras (WS’75) through graduate school at Yale University ended, and she began looking for grants to support her dissertation research in women’s studies, she found that “there were very few options for someone trying to investigate a feminist-related topic, and receiving funding to do so.”
Her dissertation, titled Down the Garden Path: Courtship Culture and Its Imagery in Victorian Art, was on the representation of women in 19th-century art, but “at the time there was no comparable scholarship on this subject,” she recalls.
Women’s studies and feminist studies were just beginning to be explored by scholars during the mid-1970s, and “it was both a plus and a minus to be involved in what turned out to be such a nascent field,” she says. Dr. Casteras found the emerging discipline blended well with her passion for Victorian literature and art—and, she says, she was drawn to the interdisciplinary nature of the fields. Read more about this Fellow...
The Woodrow Wilson
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
in Women's Studies
Women's Studies Selection Committees—2010
FINAL SELECTION COMMITTEE
Janet Golden • History, Rutgers University
Regina Smith Oboler WS '75 • Anthropology, Ursinus College
Martha Nell Smith WS ‘84 • English, University of Maryland
PRELIMINARY COMMITTEES
Anthropology
Evelyn Blackwood WS ‘90 • Purdue University
Laura Klein WF • Pacific Lutheran University
Art History
Susan Casteras WS ‘75 • University of Washington
Asian Studies
Sophie Volpp • University of California, Berkeley
Economics
Randy Albelda • University of Massachusetts
Education
Catherine Lugg • Rutgers University
English
Marilee Lindemann WS ‘87 • University of Maryland
Tricia Lootens WS ‘84 • University of Georgia
Deborah Nord WS ‘76 • Princeton University
French
Margaret Waller WS '84 • Pomona College
History
Antoinette Burton WS ‘88 • University of Illinois
Felicia Kornbluh • University of Vermont
Kathryn Nasstrom WS ‘91 • University of San Francisco
Leila Rupp WS ‘75 • University of California, Santa Barbara
Music
Claire Fontijn WS ‘91 • Wellesley College
Philosophy
Nancy Tuana • Pennsylvania State University
Political Science
Amrita Basu WS ‘80 • Amherst College
Nancy Hirschmann • University of Pennsylvania
Miki Kittilson • Arizona State University
Psychology
Alice Dan WS ‘74 • Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Illinois, Chicago
Religion
Rita M. Gross WF ‘65 • University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
Sociology
Ruth Milkman WS ‘80 • University of California, Los Angeles
Jacquelyn Litt WS ‘84 • University of Missouri-Columbia
Leslie Salzinger WS ‘93 • Boston College
Spanish
Nancy Gray Diaz • Rutgers University
WF = Woodrow Wilson Fellow |
WS = Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellow |