Mentoring Award
The mentoring award was begun in 1990 to honor an SWS member who is an
outstanding feminist mentor. While the word "mentoring" is commonly used to describe a faculty-student relationship, this award has shown the breadth of ways in which feminist mentoring is practiced. In establishing the award, SWS recognized that feminist mentoring is an important and concrete way to encourage feminist scholarship, membership in the academy, and feminist change.
Please remember that the nominee must be a current member of SWS.
The award will be presented at the SWS summer banquet during the ASA annual meeting.
Nomination packages usually consist of recommendation letters from
mentees across the multiple arenas of the mentor's influence. The
nominator then collates the
information and writes a cover letter.
To inquire or nominate, please email 2010 Chair Barbara Risman at: brisman@uic.edu
- 2009 Kum Kum Bhavnani and Michael Kimmel
- 2008 Marcia Texler Segal
- 2007 Linda Grant and Barbara Risman
- 2006 Judith Wittner
- 2005 Lora Bex Lempert
- 2004 Joey Sprague
- 2003 Bonnie Thornton Dill
- 2002 Allison Tom
- 2001 Sara R. Curran
- 2000 Esther Ngan-ling Chow
- 1999 Irene Padavic
- 1998 Eleanor Miller and Barbara Reskin
- 1997 Myra Ferree and Beth Hess
- 1996 Judith Lorber
- 1995 Barbara Katz Rothman and Verta Taylor
- 1994 Donileen Loseke
- 1993 Barrie Thorne
- 1992 Rachel Rosenfeld
- 1991 Rachel Kahn-Hut (first recipient)