Funding

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

For all other awards and grants, contact Maria Murphy (mariamur@sas.upenn.edu).

Faculty Awards

The Lynda S. Hart Teaching Award (Faculty)

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.
Trustees' Council of Penn Women Faculty Research Grants

Research support for women faculty and faculty members whose research is centrally concerned with the role of women

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 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.
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.

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Senior Thesis Award in Women's Studies

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Prize
LGBTQ & Gender Studies Undergraduate Student Research Expense Grants

To support independent research and conference travel
Lynda S. Hart Undergraduate Award in Sexuality Studies

Lynda Hart Prize