Women’s Studies Outstanding Research Essay Prize

Community Friends of Women's Studies, Inc. generously funds a prize each year to recognize the best research paper written by a student in a Women's Studies class. The prize comes with a $100 monetary award.

Faculty can nominate student papers, or students may submit a paper on their own. The deadline for submissions is March 1 each year for essays written the previous calendar year. Essays should be submitted electronically directly to the Women’s Studies office at wost@ipfw.edu. The papers will be read anonymously, and we will need to remove student names to do so, we ask for editable submissions only please. Please also include the cover sheet for the submission. Papers submitted not following this process will be returned to the student for correction and submission.

Any paper is eligible for the prize provided it meets the following requirements:

• Electronic submission with cover sheet in an editable format

• The paper must have been written for a WOST pre-fixed or WOST cross-referenced class during the most recent spring, summer, or fall semesters.
• The paper must include research, either secondary or primary or a combination of both.

Past Award Recipients

2012 - Nikolas C. Heimach, "Where Did All The Men Go? Examining How Y: The Last Man Challenges Hegemonic Masculinity"

2013 - Adrian J. Rivera, "Wrestling with the Labyrinth: The Career of WWE Vice President of Creative Stephanie McManhon Levesque"