The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
The GSWS Program is pleased to announce this year's undergraduate award winners, Kerry Schellenberger and Alisa Feldman.Schellenberger won the Lydna S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies, an award dedicated to the memory of Lynda S. Hart, a groundbreaking scholar in feminist performance studies and queer theory. Feldman won the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Award in Women's Studies, an award given in honor of distinguished historian Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, a founder of the Women's Studies Program at Penn.
Kerry Schellenberger is a 2018 graduate double majoring in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Zir thesis on "Android Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Star Trek" reflects on the aligorical lens Star Trek uses to comment on the problems we face in the modern era.
Alisa Feldman is a 2018 graduate majoring in History and Sociology of Science and minoring in GSWS. Feldman's thesis focuses on the intersection of social, political, and medical dimensions of IVF in Israel, in which the government funds unlimited cycles of IVF for all women, between ages 18 and 45, until they have two children. After graduation, Alisa will be a Fulbright Scholar in Israel, where she will conduct another ethnographic study on infertility and volunteer for Tag Meir, an organization focused on combating racism in Israel.