A prize awarding $250 for a superior paper written in a Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies course. Awarded in memory of Lynda Hart, Professor of English at Penn and groundbreaking scholar in feminist performance studies and queer theory, the prize recognizes original, rigorous scholarship on gender and sexuality by a Penn undergraduate.
Deadline for 2025/2026 awards: Friday, March 20th.
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Thomas Malloy
Biochemistry and Biology
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Disparate Treatment of Sex Disorder Diagnoses: The Role of Femaleness Being Viewed as the Absence of Maleness
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Lee Ang
Sociology
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"It's a pipeline, honestly": Linked Fate, discrimination, and critical trans politics of liberation and transformation
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Serena Baldick Martinez
GSWS
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(Honorable Mention) Reclaimed Nonbinary Harry Potter Fanfiction: Imagining Identity by Reading and Writing a Magical World
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Sundeep Bhargava
Communications
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Constructing a Queer Asian/Pacific Islander Archive: Network-Building in Community Organizing
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Max Kanner |
(Honorable Mention) The Closet’s Toll: Health Disparities in Queer Adolescents from Stress and Stigma
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Erin O'Malley |
I am Where I Come From: Narratives of Transgender Asian Adoptees
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Isaac Essex |
Expanding the Split: How the Gap in Legibility and Language Access makes Trans Poetics Essential
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Wesley Neal
GSWS
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Trans Colonialism: The State Project and White Trans Men in the United States from 1870 Onward
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Benjamin Chansky |
Investigations into Queer Experience: An Ethnographic Comparative Analysis Tracing the Development of Queer Identity from Adolescent High School to Young Adulthood at the University of Pennsylvania
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Kerry Schellenberger |
Android Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Star Trek
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Zachary Willis |
A Marriage Proposal: A Critique of Post-Marriage Equality Tax Regulation of Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions
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Virginia Seymour |
Representing Gender and Sexuality in Disability Photography, 1847–2015
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Dawn Androphy |
Before Liberation: Political Ideology and Self-Expression in the U.S. Homophile Movement, 1950-1965
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Lexi White |
Dynamics and Consequences of the Street Harassment Experienced by Women of Color
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