Dan Dissertation Award

9th Annual Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award Winners Announced

The Center for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to announce the 2009 Alice Dan Dissertation award winners. This year, two monetary awards were given to assist students with completion of their dissertation research in addition to three honorable mentions. The award winners were selected by a cross-disciplinary committee comprised of CRWG staff and advisory board members.

The award winners are:

Leah Rubin from the Department of Cognitive Psychology for her dissertation entitled "Effects of Sex Hormones on Cognition in Schizophrenia." Ms. Rubin's research will provide insights into the potential modulatory effects of sex hormones on symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.

Meg King from the Department of English for her dissertation entitled "Unattainable Manhood: American Novels and the Late 20th Century Masculinity Crisis." Ms. King examines the way in which a number of authors imagine a retreat to the pre-modern as palliative for the masculinity crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.

In addition to the monetary awards listed above, three applicants were chosen to receive and honorable mention. These students will be invited to take present their research in a women's health panel presentation in 2010 in collaboration with the College of Nursing.

The honorable mention awardees, all from the College of Nursing, are:

Lindsey Garfield, who is studying "Postpartum Depression: A Search for a Biologic Marker,"

Daravan Rongmuang who is examining "Regional Differences in Physical Appearance Identity Among Young Adult Women in Thailand: A Mixed Methods Study," and

Yoko Shimpuku whose research is on "Mother's Perceptions of Childbirth Experience in a Hospital in Rural Tanzania."

The Center for Research on Women and Gender congratulates each of this year's winners and honorable mentions!

Alice J. Dan Dissertation Research Award

The Dan Dissertation award is named after the founding director of the CRWG and long-time faculty member in the College of Nursing, Alice J. Dan, PhD.

The award is open to UIC doctoral students in any field who have completed the requirements for candidacy and have an approved dissertation proposal.

A call for applications typically takes place each spring, with awards announced during the summer. Please check this website for more details and for application requirements.

Help support the Dan Dissertation award.

For more information call or e-mail: Manu Khare at (312)413-7342 or Sarah Shirk at (312)413-1636.

Past Winners

The Alice J. Dan Dissertation has been awarded annually since 2002.

2008 Deirdre Guthrie, Department of Anthropology, "Intimate Economies in a Dominican Tourist Town"
Catherine Jacquet, Department of History, "Responding to Rape: Contesting the Meanings of Sexual Violence in the U.S. 1950-1980."

2007 Tarini Bedi, Department of Anthropology, "Piety, Violence and the Politics of Performance: Shiv Sena Women and the Feminine Subject in Maharashtra, India"

2006 Elizabeth Collins, Department of History, "Red-Baiting Public Women: Gender, Loyalty, and Red Scare Politics"
Sharon Palo, Department of English, "Domestic Disturbances: The Story of the Public Woman in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"

2005 Yingyu Chen, Department of Criminal Justice, "Reporting Behavior of Female Victims of Violence: Sexual Assault versus Physical Assault"
Nicole Warren, Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, "The Experiences of Rural Midwives in Mali, West Africa"

2004 Sandra Bibiana Adames, Department of Psychology, "A Critical Assessment of Sociocultural Factors Influencing Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinos"

2003 Lilian Friedberg, Department of Germanic Studies, "A Critical Reception of Ingeborg Bachman"
Jan Warren-Findlow, School of Public Health, "Explanatory Models of Heart Disease in Older Black Women"

2002 Leanne Brecklin, Department of Criminal Justice, "Self-Defense Training and Women's Responses to Rape Attacks"
Paula (Lori) Watson, Department of Philosophy, "Liberal Democracies, Feminism, and Citizenship"
Inés Sahagún-Behena, Department of Spanish, French, Italian & Portoguese, "Space and the City in Mexican Women's Novels, 1980-1990"

2008	*Deirdre Guthrie, Department of Anthropology, "Intimate Economies in a Dominican Tourist Town" Catherine Jacquet*, Department of History, "Responding to Rape: Contesting the Meanings of Sexual Violence in the U.S. 1950-1980."
2007	*Tarini Bedi*, Department of Anthropology, "Piety, Violence and the Politics of Performance: Shiv Sena Women and the Feminine Subject in Maharashtra, India"
2006	*Elizabeth Collins, Department of History, "Red-Baiting Public Women: Gender, Loyalty, and Red Scare Politics" Sharon Palo*, Department of English, "Domestic Disturbances: The Story of the Public Woman in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction"
2005	*Yingyu Chen, Department of Criminal Justice, "Reporting Behavior of Female Victims of Violence: Sexual Assault versus Physical Assault" Nicole Warren*, Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, "The Experiences of Rural Midwives in Mali, West Africa"
2004	*Sandra Bibiana Adames*, Department of Psychology, "A Critical Assessment of Sociocultural Factors Influencing Intimate Partner Violence Among Latinos"
2003	*Lilian Friedberg, Department of Germanic Studies, "A Critical Reception of Ingeborg Bachman" Jan Warren-Findlow*, School of Public Health, "Explanatory Models of Heart Disease in Older Black Women"
2002	*Leanne Brecklin, Department of Criminal Justice, "Self-Defense Training and Women's Responses to Rape Attacks" Paula (Lori) Watson, Department of Philosophy, "Liberal Democracies, Feminism, and Citizenship" Inés Sahagún-Behena*, Department of Spanish, French, Italian & Portoguese, "Space and the City in Mexican Women's Novels, 1980-1990"