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Giller-Sagan Undergraduate Thesis Prize Recipients' Topics

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.

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Award Recipents and Topics:

2006-2007: Jennifer L. Feinberg
“Fostering Women’s Political Ambition: Who Runs for Congress, Who Wins, & How to Expand the Pool”
Majors: Women's and Gender Studies, Politics
Minor: Legal Studies

2006-2007: 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

2005-2006: Zahra Ayubi, B.A. 2006
"American Muslim Women Negotitating Divorce"
Majors: HSSP, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Minors: Women's and Gender Studies, Legal studies

2004-2005: Julia Moskowitz, B.A. 2005
"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

2003-2004: Corey Hope Leaffer, B.A. 2004
“Teaching Brandeis to Transgress: Normative Whiteness and the Implications of Jewish Identity for Race Relations and Institutionalized Racism”
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies

2002-2003: Lillian Davidson, B.A. 2003
"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

2001-2002: Suzy Stone, B.A. 2002
"Questioning the Silence: An Intersectional Approach Towards Social Change"
Major: History
Minors: Women's Studies, Art History

2000-2001: Arielle Parker, B.A. 2001
Majors: General Science, Sociology, Philosophy
Minors: Women's Studies, Physics

1999-2000: Jennifer Goulston, B.A. 2000
"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

1998-1999: Chava E. Zibman, B.A. 1999
"Marriage and the Earned Income Tax Credit: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why?"
Majors: Math, Economics
Minor: Women's Studies

1997-1998: Miriam Eve Heller, B.A. 1998
"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

1996-1997: Hilary Prager, B.A. 1997
"Gender equality :the controversy over single-sex education"
Major: American Studies
Minors: Women's Studies, Education

1995-1996: Abigail Lawrence, B.A. 1996
Major: Sociology
Minors: Women's Studies, Creative Writing 

1994-1995: Rachel Lisa Bragin, B.A. 1995
"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

1993-1994: Shireen Deboo, B.A. 1994
"Responding to Crisis: Rural Women and Activism in India"
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies

1993-1994: Gavi Elyn Hollander, B.A. 1994
"A Life Divided: The Struggle Between Secularism and Traditionalism in Examples of American Jewish Fiction"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1992-1993: Judith K. Taylor, B.A. 1993
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies

1992-1993: Julia Rachel Wittner, B.A. 1993
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1991-1992: Lynn Gerber, B.A. 1992
Major: Women and Religion
 Minor: Women's Studies

1990-1991: Raquel Kosovske, B.A. 1991
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1990-1991: Linda Schlossberg, B.A. 1991
"Women, Food, and Hunger in Victorian Literature"
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1989-1990: Beth Kaufman, B.A. 1990
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1989-1990: Emily Trinkaus, B.A. 1990
Major: English and American Literature
Minor: Women's Studies

1988-1989: Alka Gurung, B.A. 1989
Major: Sociology
Minor: Women's Studies

1987-1988: Ann Eisenberg, B.A. 1988
“Room for the Woman Poet: Renovating the Master's House”
Major: Independent concentration
Minor: Women's Studies

1987-1988: Christine M. Mikolich, B.A.1988
Major: English and American Literature

1986-1987: Lisa Marie Burgess, B.A. 1987
Major: English and American Literature

1985-1986: Robyn L. Rosen, B.A. 1986

1984-1985: Arthur Kiron, B.A. 1985

1983-1984: Leah Binder, B.A. 1984

1982-1983: Laura H. Rotenberg, B.A. 1983

1981-1982: Donna S. Arons, B.A. 1982
"Marital Violence and the Legal Response"

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