Honors and Awards

Harriet Dumba, a dark-skinned black woman with long braids pulled back in a ponytail, wearing a blue blouse and patterned skirt, holding her 2022 GWSS Alumni Award plaque and smiling at the camera.
2022 GWSS Alumni Awardee Harriet Poni Dumba: “There is so much work for us to do out there.”  
(December 15, 2022)
Image of woman (Martha Gonzalez) sitting in the middle of a couch playing a guitar with her son and husband on either side of her also playing guitars.
Genius Award for GWSS Alum// Perspectives
(November 14, 2022)
Image of woman (Martha Gonzalez) sitting in the middle of a couch playing a guitar with her son and husband on either side of her also playing guitars.
Martha Gonzalez Receives 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
(October 13, 2022)
Shuxuan Zhou
Shuxuan Zhou's Essay "The Posthumous Child" Wins Grand Prize in Sixth Tone Writing Contest
(September 12, 2022)
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Nastasia Paul-Gera Selected for the Graduate School's 2022 Distinguished Thesis Award 
(August 9, 2022)
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Cricket Keating Receives Fellowship for Her Book and a UW Labor Studies Grant to Develop a New Course
(July 18, 2022)
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Amanda Swarr Receives Fellowship for Her Book and Serves as Co-Editor of “The Intersex Issue” of TSQ
(July 18, 2022)
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Graduate Student Recognition Roundup
(July 18, 2022)
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Two New PhDs in Feminist Studies
(July 18, 2022)
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Nastasia Paul-Gera Receives Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship 
(July 13, 2022)
Headshot of Fabian Romero standing in front of a microphone wearing a grey sweater over a blue dress shirt with a smile on their face
fabian romero Receives the GSEE Foundry 10 Summer Support Fund Award and a Scholarship to the VONA (Voices of a Nation) Summer Writing Workshop
(June 13, 2022)
A picture of Jey Saung wearing a black jean jacket, white shirt, and a big smile. They are standing in front of a line of trees.
GWSS Ph.D. Candidate, Jey Saung, Receives the Prestigious Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship  
(June 6, 2022)
Guardians of the Gonfalon
GWSS Ph.D. Candidate, Yingyi Wang, Selected to Carry the Gonfalon in this Year's Commencement Ceremony
(May 23, 2022)
Simona Liao
GWSS major, Simona Liao, awarded Husky 100 
(May 23, 2022)
Ramon Johnson
Ramon Johnson awarded the Clyde Taylor Award for Distinguished Work in African American and Africana Studies
(May 13, 2022)
Ramon Johnson Accepting Women Engaged Award
Ramon Johnson Receives the Alumni Award from Women Engaged
(May 5, 2022)
Zhehui (Simona) Liao
Simona Liao Member of Husky 100
(April 25, 2022)
Queer Nightlife Book Cover
Kemi Adeyemi is a 2022 Lammy Finalist
(April 11, 2022)
Michelle Morado
Michelle Morado, GWSS PhD Candidate, awarded impressive Crybaby Studios Residency
(March 29, 2022)
Image of Lambda Literary Finalists for LGBTQ Anthology
GWSS Professor Adeyemi's "Queer Nightlife" is a finalist for a prestigious Lambda Literary Award 
(March 16, 2022)
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GWSS Awards: Nominations Open!
(February 15, 2022)
Chican@ Artivistas Book Cover
GWSS Alum, Dr. Martha Gonzalez, wins a gold medal for her book, Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles
(November 8, 2021)
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Awards of Excellence
(June 15, 2021)
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Husky 100
(June 15, 2021)
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Awards of Excellence
(June 14, 2021)
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Husky 100
(June 14, 2021)
Michelle Habell-Pallan receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
Michelle Habell-Pallán receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
(June 11, 2021)
Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi Receives the Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theatre Studies
(December 1, 2020)
Jiwoon Yulee
Jiwoon Yulee Wins NWSA/UIP First Book Prize
(October 28, 2020)
Jey Saung
Jey Saung receives Frank Jenkins Jr. Fellowship in Labor Studies from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
(August 31, 2020)
Stephanie Yingyi Wang
Stephanie Yingyi Wang receives a Martha H. Duggan Fellowship in Caring Labor from Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
(August 31, 2020)
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Iris Viveros Avendano receives 2020-2021 GO-MAP Dissertation Fellowship
(August 31, 2020)
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UW president, biochemistry chair and mathematics professor named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(April 23, 2020)
Mediha Sorma awarded Sawyer Seminar Fellowship
Graduate student, Mediha Sorma, awarded Pre-Doctoral Sawyer Seminar Fellowship
(March 4, 2020)
Sasha Welland book Experimental Beijing wins Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize
Sasha Welland receives Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies
(February 18, 2020)
American Sabor receives 2019 ARSC Award
American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music ... receives ARSC Award
(October 11, 2019)
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American Sabor wins Best History in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence
(October 10, 2019)
Christina Yuen Zi Chung receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Christina Yuen Zi Chung receives Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
(May 7, 2019)
Mediha Sorma receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Mediha Sorma Receives Graduate School Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
(May 6, 2019)
Yingyi Wang receives Chester Fritz Fellowship
Stephanie Yingyi Wang, Receives the Chester Fritz International Research and Study Fellowship
(May 6, 2019)
Amanda Lock Swarr
Amanda Lock Swarr receives UW 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
(April 24, 2019)
Yingyi Wang receives Overseas Young Chinese Forum Fellowship for Field Research in China
Yingyi Wang receives a Overseas Young Chinese Forum Fellowship for Field Research in China
(April 16, 2019)
Kemi Adeyemi
Kemi Adeyemi receives Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship
(April 11, 2019)
Jey Saung receives 2018 Marie Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching
GWSS graduate student, Jey Saung, receives the 2018 Marie Doman Award for Excellence in Teaching
(October 5, 2018)