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Special Opportunities

This prize, established in 1989, and renamed in 2000 to honor the memory of Molly Hatcher, is awarded annually for the best work done during the previous calendar year by a current Kenyon student in which gender is a central theme. The work may take any form including, but not limited to, essay, composition, artwork, performance, or scientific study.

Submissions, which need not have been created for a Women's and Gender Studies class, should be accomplished by a letter explaining the work's origins and intent. In the case of the creative and performing arts, an interrelated body of work may count as a single submission. Electronic submissions are preferred. The prize carries a cash prize of $100 and the winner's name is engraved on a plaque that hangs in the Crozier Center.

Previous Hatcher Prize Winners

2009 Kara Stiles
2008 Emma Perry
Roxanne Smith
2007 Kaelin Alexander
2006 Jonathan A. Stein
2005 Angela Lynn Arahood
2004 Taryn Alyssa Myers
2003 Liesl S. Kuhr
Elena M. Rue
2002 Elanna M. Anagnos
Jessica Lee Bellama
2001 Erica M. Carroll
2000 Sarah Belanger
Abby Brethauer
Sarah Bumstead
Caitlin Chun-Kennedy
Molly Hatcher
Ann Herbert
Peter Hurteau
Shannon Johnson
Meredith Jossi
Abby Mitchell
Elizabeth Ray
Laura Shults
Luke Singer
1999 Pam Maslen
1998 Kate Masley
1997 Sarah K. Bearman
1996 Lisa Kindleberger
Laura Noah
1995 Dana Warn
1994 Jennifer Fishman
Merrill Zack
1993 Carrie Comer
1992 Kathryn P. Evans
Carol A. Mason
1991 Catherine E. Fellowes
Kimberly A. Puhala
1990 John Grant
Amy Lanz
1989 Jennifer E. Pearce

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Eliza Ablovatski, History
Marla Kohlman, Sociology
E. Abbie Erler, Political Science
Sylvie Coulibaly, History
Laurie Finke, Women's and Gender Studies
Clara Roman-Odio, Modern Languages and Literatures
Tracy Menzel 09
Leslie Parsons 09

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Future Feminisms

Feminism didn't invent resistance to patriarchy; it organized it. This seminar explores the presence of feminism in the contemporary mainstream as a political, social, sexual, and economic force both in the U.S. and globally. It offers students the opportunity to engage in an integrative study that combines the theoretical concepts and arguments developed by feminists over the past thirty years with an evaluation of practical applications of feminist problem solving both to social and personal experiences. What has feminism accomplished? What work is left to be done? What are the most effective forms of feminist organization, of feminist activism? How do we learn practically to negotiate our differences--generational, racial, global, sexual--without burying them, while still moving the feminist agenda (whatever that is) forward?

Readings

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta and Grassroots
Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman, Colonize This
Inga Muscio, Cunt
Leslie Bennett, The Feminine Mistake
Myra Ferree and Alli Trip, Global Feminisms

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Women's and Gender Studies majors and concentrators have participated in several overseas programs in Europe, Africa, India, Australian and New Zealand. Below are some examples:


Antioch Women's and Gender Studies in Europe

Women's and Gender Studies in Europe (WGSE) is designed for students interested in exploring women's, gender, queer, and sexuality issues and feminist theory as they earn 16 semester credits while traveling across Europe.

WGSE program participants engage in rigorous methodological and theoretical inquiry as they travel to Utrecht and Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Krakow, Poland; Prague, the Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany; and London, the UK. Each student also conducts a self-designed, independent research project. Each research topic is unique -- past themes include: reproductive rights, LGBTQI issues, trafficking, queer youth support organizations, immigration issues, sex-work, feminist art, and many others.


For more information: http://aea.antioch.edu/ws/

Recent Kenyon students who participated:

Leah Boersig, WGS major, 2009

Alexis Tsotakos, WGS major, 2007

Caroline Leveque, WGS major 2005


SIT Mali: Gender and Development

For more information: http://oregonstate.edu/international/studyabroad/sit-mali-gender-and-development

See Risa Griffin's Mali blog at http://risainmali.blogspot.com/



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Transnational Dialogues: De-centering the Academic Debate on Global Feminisms

The internationalization of local feminisms has significantly impacted how, in recent years, research agendas are structured in the U.S. and elsewhere. Feminists from all over the globe are addressing how globalization brings about new forms of gender inequality that, in many cases, are rooted in older histories of colonialism and racism. These transnational approaches move across national boundaries to assess political, economical, and cultural shifts affecting women's lives, and emphasize connections without necessarily creating similarities.

For more information please click on the link above or contact:

Clara Roman-Odio ( romanodioc@kenyon.edu )
Marta Sierra ( sierram@kenyon.edu )
Laurie Finke ( finkel@kenyon.edu )

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