Awards Programs

SWS is pleased to recognize many forms of outstanding feminist work. The following awards and scholarships are presented at our Awards Banquet during the Summer Meeting, held each August.

Barbara Rosenblum Cancer Dissertation Scholarship
This scholarship is designed to encourage doctoral research on women's experience of breast cancer and other reproductive cancers, as well as the prevention of these cancers. The scholarship also supports efforts to make sociological research on these topics available to the public.

Contact Gayle Sulik This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: April 1, 2013.  Awarded in odd years only.

Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to a new or continuing sociology Ph.D. student who has studied for at least one full academic year at a two-year college in the U.S., before transferring to complete a BA.

Contact Denise Copelton This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: April 1, 2013

Cheryl Allyn Miller Award
This award recognizes a sociology graduate student, or a recent doctorate, whose research or activism constitutes an outstanding contribution to the field of women and work.

Contact Jennifer Reid Keene This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: April 1, 2013

Feminist Activism Award
This annual award recognizes an SWS member who has made notable contributions to improving the lives of women in society, especially through activism.

Contact Dani MacCartney This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Melanie Heath This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: March 1, 2013

Feminist Lecturer Award
Founded in 1985, this lectureship was created to recognize those whose scholarship employs a feminist perspective. The goal is to make these scholars more available to campuses where such a voice is unusual and/or unwelcome.

Contact Shannon N Davis This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: March 1, 2013

Mentoring Award
This award honors an SWS member who is an outstanding feminist mentor.

Contact Joya Misra This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: March 1, 2013

Chow Green Dissertation Scholarship
This scholarship offers support to women scholars who are from underrepresented groups and are studying concerns that women of color face domestically and/or internationally.

Contact Kris De Welde This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Gail Wallace This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: April 1, 2013

Undergraduate Social Action Award

Given at our Winter meeting, this award carries on the tradition of acknowledging, affirming and inviting students to participate in SWS.

Contact Crystal Jackson This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and Kylie Parrotta This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Deadline: November 1, 2013.