2016 Graduate Student Recipients of the Leboy-Davies Fellowships

Prakirti Nangia, Political Science

   Development, Maternalism, and Women’s Social Citizenship: A Case Study of India, 1985-2015

Hafeeza Anchrum, Nursing

   Mercy Douglas Hospital & Nurse Training School, 1948-1960

The fellowship was created in honor of Phoebe Leboy and Helen Davies, two pioneering feminist faculty members in the health sciences. It provides up to $4,000 in research or travel funding to a graduate student whose work will foster women’s health, well-being, and educational equality anywhere in the world, or enhance our understanding of gender inequality.