FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, March 28, 2018
CONTACT:  Susan Billmaier | Program Officer, WW Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies | (609) 452-7007 x310
Patrick Riccards | Director of Media Relations and Strategy  |  (703) 298-8283

Note:  Prospective applicants should call 609-452-7007 x310 or email [email protected]

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Selects Women’s Studies Fellows for 2018

PRINCETON, NJ (March 28, 2018) – The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has announced the 2018 class of Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellows in Women’s Studies.

The ten Fellows represent Boston University, University of California–Berkeley, University of California–Los Angeles, University of California–San Diego, Johns Hopkins University, University of Minnesota, the University of Notre Dame, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, and University of Texas at Austin. They are completing Ph.D.s in fields such as history, education, English, ethnic studies, gender studies, and sociology (see full list below).

The WW Women’s Studies Fellowship supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways. Each Fellow is awarded $5,000 for expenses such as research-related travel, data work/collection, and supplies connected with completing their dissertations. In addition, their dissertation titles are publicized with leading scholarly publishers at the conclusion of the dissertation year.

This year’s Fellows are drawing on personal experiences and archival discoveries, among other sources, in their research. Dissertation topics including online misogyny and anti-hate feminist activism in South Korea; gender, race, and scripture at the women’s mosque of America; and the publications of the Victoria Press, a 19th-century feminist printing house.

Now in its 44th year, the WW Women’s Studies Fellowship is still the only national dissertation award for doctoral work on women’s and gendered issues. The program has supported Ph.D.s in various fields and includes a Pulitzer Prize winner, two MacArthur Fellows, a number of Fulbright Fellows, and many others who have achieved significant distinctions in their fields.

For more information on the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, please visit https://woodrow.org/fellowships/womens-studies/.

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About the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Founded in 1945, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (www.woodrow.org) identifies and develops the nation’s best minds to meet its most critical challenges. The Foundation supports its Fellows as the next generation of leaders shaping American society.

 

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Dissertation Fellowships
in Women’s Studies, 2018

Tazeen Ali • Boston University, religious studies
Rethinking Interpretative Authority: Gender, Race, and Scripture at the Women’s Mosque of America

Maria Baiocchi • University of Pittsburgh, anthropology
Becoming Workers: Changing Labor Laws and Domestic Workers’ Challenges in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Angela Carter • University of Minnesta, gender, women, and sexuality studies
Disabling PTSD: Toward a Crip Critique of PTSD

Yige Dong • Johns Hopkins University, sociology
From Textile Mill Town to iPhone City: Gender, Class, and the Politics of Care in an Industrializing China (1949-present)

Yessica Garcia Hernandez • University of California—San Diego, ethnic studies
Intoxicated by Jenni Rivera: Digital Chingona Solidarity, Sonic Pedagogies, and The Erotics of Fandom

Savannah Kilner • University of California—Los Angeles, gender studies
Pride and Property: Queer Settler Colonialism, Blackness, and the Landed Politics of Solidarity

Jinsook Kim • University of Texas at Austin, radio, television, and film
Contesting Hate: Online Misogyny and Anti-Hate Feminist Activism in South Korea

Miranda Marraccini • Princeton University, English
Feminist Types: Reading the Victoria Press

Allegra Midgette • University of California—Berkeley, education
Gendered Household Labor Distribution & Morality: Social & Moral Reasoning in Chinese & South Korean Families

Jillian Plummer • University of Notre Dame, history
Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, Communism, and the Cold War, 1958-1979

 

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