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Funding

For information on the undergraduates prizes, please contact Gwendolyn Beetham (gbeetham@sas.upenn.edu).

For all other awards and grants, contact Che Gossett (cheg@sas.upenn.edu).

Faculty Awards

Penn Community Awards

  • Center Working Groups
    Support for sustained engagement to explore emerging and/or under-supported areas of scholarship
  • Pedagogy Award
    This award recognizes members of the Penn community (faculty, students, and staff) who have incorporated pedagogical practices that exemplify critical feminist, queer, and trans approaches to knowledge production.
  • Request for Co-Sponsorship
    To support The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies and GSWS Program’s goal of increasing the visibility and impact of gender, sexuality and women’s studies scholarship across the University, FQT and GSWS provide financial and in-kind support to many campus-wide events each year.

Graduate Awards

  • Graduate Mentorship Award
    This annual graduate student award is given to graduate students who apply and are selected to participate in a mentorship program for GSWS undergraduate honors thesis students.
  • Graduate Student Research Expense Grants
    To support independent research and conference travel.
  • James Brister Society Student Leadership Awards
    Each year, the James Brister Society Student Leadership Awards recognize a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate senior and a graduate student completing their studies whose presence and service has elevated the legacy and values of Penn. Additionally, the Penn Spectrum Alumni Affinity groups present awards to students who have positively impacted the cultural communities at Penn. Awards are presented by the Association of Latino Alumni, the Association of Native Alumni, the Black Alumni Society, the LGBT Alumni Association, the Asian Alumni Network, the Penn Women's Center, and Penn First Plus.
  • Leboy-Davies Graduate Student Award
    Support for research fostering women's health, well-being, and educational equality or enhance our understanding of gender inequality
  • Phyllis Rackin Graduate Award
    Promotes new scholarship on women, gender, and/or sexuality in the humanities.
  • The Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award (Graduate Students)
    The Lynda Hart Teaching Award recognizes teachers who have cultivated a learning environment that facilitates, encourages, and engages feminist critique and who prioritize inclusive classroom practices.

Undergraduate Awards