Giller-Sagan WGS Senior Paper Prize
The Giller-Sagan Prize was established in 1982 by Frimi and Eli Sagan, in honor of the grandmothers of Susannah Sagan '81. Sadie Giller and Esther Sagan left the shtetl in their teens and came to America in search of a full and complex life. The prize is awarded each year for the finest undergraduate thesis in Women’s and Gender Studies.
Award Recipents and Topics
2011-12: Supreetha Gubbala
2010-11: Kasey Wooten
“Living with Smoke: Women, Empowerment, and Everyday Struggle in Post Conflict Acholiland, Uganda”
Major: Anthropology, International & Global Studies
Minor: Women's and Gender Studies, Peace, Conflict & Coexistence Studies
Victoria Wiet
“(Un)dressing the Archive: Geneologies of Female Embodiment in Marisa Carnesky’s Jewess Tattooess”
Major: English
Minor: Women's and Gender Studies
2009-10: Alison Channon
"From Conjugal Rights to Bodily Self-Possession: Confronting Marital Rape in Nineteeth-Centry America"
Major:
Minor: Women's and Gender Studies
2008-09: Jessica Seitz
"Female Judges and a Feminine Jurisprudence: Do Female Judges Reason More Contextually?"
Majors: Women's and Gender Studies, Politics
Minor: Legal Studies
2007-08: Sarah Fishman
"Jewish/Gentile Intermarriage as a Blessing: Non-Jewish Women as Guardians of Jewish Tradition"
Majors: Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
2006-07: Jennifer L. Feinberg
“Fostering Women’s Political Ambition: Who Runs for Congress, Who Wins, and How to Expand the Pool”
Majors: Women's and Gender Studies, Politics
Minor: Legal Studies
2006-07: Angela M. Marchant
“Tutafanyaje? What Should We Do?: Happy’s Okoaroka and Female Circumcision in Bongina, Kenya”
Major: Women's and Gender Studies
Minor: Health: Science, Society and Policy
2005-06: Zahra Ayubi '06
"American Muslim Women Negotitating Divorce"
Majors: HSSP, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Minors: Women's and Gender Studies, Legal studies
2004-05: Julia Moskowitz '05
"Freeing Yourself Was One Thing; Claiming Ownership To That Freed Self Was Another: Sethe's Struggle to Claim Her Own Identity In Beloved, by Toni Morrison"
Majors: Women's Studies, English and American Literature
2003-04: Corey Hope Leaffer '04
“Teaching Brandeis to Transgress: Normative Whiteness and the Implications of Jewish Identity for Race Relations and Institutionalized Racism”
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies
2002-03: Lillian Davidson '03
"Why the Women's Movement Does Not Move Anymore: A Comparison of Obstacles to Feminist Activism in the United States and the Netherlands”
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies
2001-02: Suzy Stone '02
"Questioning the Silence: An Intersectional Approach Towards Social Change"
Major: History
Minors: Women's Studies, Art History
2000-01: Arielle Parker '01
Majors: General Science, Sociology, Philosophy
Minors: Women's Studies, Physics
1999-2000: Jennifer Goulston '00
"Ratio Shift: A Study of Personal Growth, Psychological Development, and Transition in Adult Female Athletes"
Majors: English and American Literature, Anthropology
Minors: Women's Studies, Education
1998-99: Chava E. Zibman '99
"Marriage and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?"
Majors: Math, Economics
Minor: Women's Studies
1997-98: Miriam Eve Heller '98
"World War I and the battle of life: A social history based on the diaries of Frances Lesser"
Majors: History, NEJS
Minor: Women's Studies
1996-97: Hilary Prager '97
"Gender equality: the controversy over single-sex education"
Major: American Studies
Minors: Women's Studies, Education
1995-96: Abigail Lawrence '96
Major: Sociology
Minors: Women's Studies, Creative Writing
1994-95: Rachel Lisa Bragin '95
"Nations in Their Texts: Negotiating Identity, Culture, and Commitment in U.S./Third world Women's Writing"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1993-94: Shireen Deboo '94
"Responding to Crisis: Rural Women and Activism in India"
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies
1993-94: Gavi Elyn Hollander '94
"A Life Divided: The Struggle Between Secularism and Traditionalism in Examples of American Jewish Fiction"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1992-93: Judith K. Taylor '93
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies
1992-93: Julia Rachel Wittner '93
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1991-92: Lynne Gerber '92
Major: Women and Religion
Minor: Women's Studies
1990-91: Raquel Kosovske '91
"Dialogue on the Beautiful: Lesbian Poetry and the Dutiful Daughter"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1990-91: Linda Schlossberg '91
"Women, Food, and Hunger in Victorian Literature"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1989-90: Beth Kaufman '90
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1989-90: Emily Trinkaus '90
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies
1988-89: Alka Gurung '89
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies
1987-88: Ann Eisenberg '88
“Room for the Woman Poet: Renovating the Master's House”
Major: Independent concentration
Minor: Women's Studies
1987-88: Christine M. Mikolich '88
Major: English and American Literature
1986-87: Lisa Marie Burgess '87
Major: English and American Literature
1985-86: Robyn L. Rosen '86
1984-85: Arthur Kiron '85
1983-84: Leah Binder '84
1982-83: Laura H. Rotenberg '83
1981-82: Donna S. Arons '82
"Marital Violence and the Legal Response"