Previous Grant Recipients

2011-2012

Alykhan Alani, Rohini Bhatia, Anupa Gewali, and Lukas Slipski; Community and Preventative Health
Award to help cover expenses for research on the global tobacco epidemic in the context of gender and adolescents in Leh, Ladakh.
Melika Butcher, Tsion Girum, Sharese King, and Lecora Massamba; Women of Color Circle
Award to help cover expenses of presenting “The Women of Color Circle: Safe-Space and Voice” at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.
Carlie Fishgold, Art and Art History
Funding towards her senior honors thesis “Transcultural Journies: Onkwehonwe Cradleboards, 1740-1925.”
Anaise Wiliams, Anthropology
Funding toward her senior honors thesis, “Understanding Pregnancy in Rural Northeastern Thailand: Cultural Prenatal Precaution.”

Jennifer Bratovish, Studio Art
Funding for her senior thesis project, "Clumsy/Necessary," which was a Juror's Choice winner at the 2011 SBAI (en)Gendered Art Show. Bratovish's work examines the disruption of the "gaze" - what Mulvey describes as "to-be-looked-at-ness" - as well as the act of looking and the way the two function in precarious, liminal space.

Caitlin Rioux, Studio Art
Funding for travel to Philadelphia where she attended the 2010 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National Conference, “Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts.”
Elizabeth Slupinski, Studio Art
Funding for travel to Philadelphia where she attended the 2010 Society for Photographic Education (SPE) National Conference, “Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts.”
Lauren Buchsbaum, Studio Art & English, T5
Funding for her research project entitled “The Effect of Sexuality upon Male Compliment Deliveries.”

Dhairya Dalal
Support for internship at The Synergos Institute researching civil society within India to provide new bases for efficient and effective disbursement of resources.
Annabelle Estera, Psychology
Study surveying University of Rochester instrumental ensemble participants to see the extent to which musical instrument gender stereotyping and gender segregation exists.
Susan Storey, Religion and WST
Studying “Gender and Ethnicity in Gaming Identity,” specifically the sexual portrayal of women in video games. Thirty-five hours per week for eight weeks, including research, analyzing articles, writing, and weekly or biweekly discussions.
Angela Stoutenburgh, MLC
Words and Bodies in Discourse, connecting my research on reclaimed epithets as a product of alienation with a study of socialized violence against marginalized bodies. To present at NCUR in April, 2009.
Anna Tobin, Anthropology
Present at a national Anthropology Conference on “Affects of Clinics on Child Health in Rural Malawi"

Sharon Barney, English
Attend "V to the Tenth: A Celebration of 10 years of the Vagina Monologues." April 2008. New Orleans, LA
Angela Stoutenburgh, Linguistics
Research the origin and development (reclaiming) epithets with a primary interest in those of the Queer community.
Julianne Nigro, WST/PSC
Attendance at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference 6/19-6/22 at the Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
Susan Storey, Women's Studies/Religion
Attendance at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference 6/19-6/22 at the Millennium Hotel in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brynn Champney, Anthropology
The Women of Rwanda: Raising a Generation and Re-Building Culture. Airfare for 10-week stay in Rwanda interviewing women who are currently the heads of child-headed households for research on how the shift in raising children in Rwanda has impacted the opportunities for education.

Madeleine Cutrona
Research about "Forging New Frontiers: Contributions of the World Social Forum to Feminist Action" at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, spring 2007
Mariam Mull, Julianne Nigro, Lucia Spinelli, and Susan Storey
Attended the Feminist Majority Foundation sponsored National Young Women’s Leadership Conference in Washington, DC
Stephanie Yurchyk
Attended Family Planning Advocates 30th Annual Conference in Albany, NY

Lucia Spinelli
Attended National Women’s Studies Association Conference
Julie Stoltman
Attended "Plan First - then Write Grants" workshop as training for Women's Studies internship with World Education Fund (WEF)

Carmen Lewis
Attended the Summit meeting in NYC and the March for Women's Rights on April 25 in Washington, DC
Stephanie Testa
Starving for Control , a documentary on Eating Disorders
Ruth Varkovitzky
Research Project: “Agency, Depression, and Social Support in Residents of a Domestic Violence Shelter”

Rebecca Anne Green
Research at the "Women Challenging Violence" conference in Nicaragua.

Beth-Anne Diodato
Research project assessing individual perceptions of the benefits and/or disadvantages of a coed versus single-sex education
Kristin Dowell
Follow-up interviews with female potters in New Mexico