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GW Women's Studies Resources
The Women's Studies Program Offices and Staff The Women's Studies Program Office is
located iat Daniel Moshenberg,
Director Cynthia Deitch,
Associate Director and Practicum Advisor Cynthia Harrison, Associate Professor
of History and Women's Studies Alyssa Zucker,
Assistant Professor of Psychology and of Women's Studies Heidi Lindemann,
Office Manager The Women's Studies Library is
located in the lower level of The Women's Studies Library collection includes over 1000 books catalogued in a Women's Studies database, back issues of several journals (SIGNS, Feminist Studies, Hypatia), and previous students' MA Theses and Research Projects. Upon request, you can search the databases for the MA Theses and the books. The materials do not circulate, but students are welcome to read them in the Library or make photocopies here at Women's Studies for 5 cents per page. Financial Aid
Opportunities: Awards & Prizes This listing includes the main GW sources of financial support and awards. Many others exist, both on-campus and off-campus. The Program posts all information that comes in, but we cannot honor requests from individual students to "look out" for grants or internships. It is the student’s responsibility to check the Program’s postings regularly. General information on financial aid,
including student loans, is available from The George Washington University
Office of Student Financial Assistance, The George Washington University, Full-time employees of the If you need a Student Loan, we recommend using eStudentLoan.Com, a site which provides personalized apples-to-apples comparisons of loan programs from the nation's top lenders and let's you apply online. Opportunities specifically related to the Women's Studies Program include: Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Annually, two full-time GTAships are awarded on a competitive basis. Priority is given to full-time matriculated first-year students, but second-year students may be considered as well. The assistantships involve twenty hours of work per week, assisting in undergraduate classes, assisting with the practicum, and other program-related tasks such as editing the newsletter, organizing the library, and updating alumni information. Past teaching assistantships have provided 18 credit hours and a stipend. See the Graduate Student Handbook for details. The IWPR/GW Fellowship in Women's
Public Policy Research Generally, each year, one fellowship will be awarded on a competitive basis, with the fellow to be chosen jointly by the Women's Studies Program and the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Fellows will participate in research at IWPR while a full-time graduate student at GW; research may be used toward fulfillment of requirements for WSTU 283, 280, and 295, as well as thesis or dissertation research. The fellowship provides a stipend of $10,000 and 18 hours of tuition credit. Preference will be given to advanced graduate students, particularly to public policy PhD students in the gender and social policy concentration whose thesis topics relate to IWPR research interests. Contact the Women's Studies Program office for an application or download here. Women's Studies Endowment Award
Each year, the Women's Studies
Endowment, financed through alumni donations, provides an award of
approximately $2000 to a student matriculated in a Women's Studies graduate
program in a college or university located in the The Nicole Paul Endowed Prize in
Women's Studies Provided through an endowment made by the parents of Nicole Paul, who was a Women's Studies MA student before her death in 1994, this annual award is about $900. The awardee is selected by a committee comprising the Women's Studies Program Director, two members of the Program faculty, and one student. Applicants should be matriculated students in the GW Women’s Studies MA Program with demonstrated commitment to feminist scholarship and activism. Application forms are available in the Women’s Studies office or by clicking here. The "Service to the Community
of Women" Award This award acknowledges the activism of a GW Women's Studies Program graduate student. Any GW Women's Studies graduate student may apply. Application guidelines and forms are available in the Women's Studies Program office or by clicking here. The award is $100. Women's Studies Graduate Prize for
Feminist Scholarship Any George Washington University Women's Studies Program graduate student can submit a paper for consideration. Click here for the application form. The prize is $100. Guidelines for Submissions:
The "Making a
Difference" Award The primary goal of this award is to encourage original research, stimulate critical thinking and shape on-going debates on one, or more than one, related topics concerning women. The paper would cover the purpose, implementation, outcomes and impacts of legislation, policies and programs that include or are aimed specifically at women on subjects such as aging, health, violence against women, wage equity, child-care, safety net issues and human rights. The Award is made possible by the generous support of Clara Schiffer. The amount is yet to be determined. Students are invited to submit a paper of not more than 20 pages for review by the committee comprising members of faculty from Women’s Studies and related areas such as Public Policy, representative(s) from policy oriented research bodies such IWPR, and a GW alum. The committee will review the papers according to the stated criteria. The Committee may, if it feels necessary, call upon other experts to assist in its deliberation. An additional required application form is available in Women's Studies or by clicking here. Criteria: The committee will be looking for original work which falls within the scope of the award. The paper should have been initiated in a Women’s Studies course (i.e. one with a WSTU prefix). Eligibility: This prize is open to all undergraduate and
graduate students taking a course with a Women’s Studies prefix (i.e.
WSTU) during the current year. Oustanding Contribution by an Undergraduate
Major Award This award is open to Women's Studies majors and acknowledges outstanding commitment to the interests of women by way of activism, service and scholarship. Please submit a statement which
includes the following:
The award is $50. This award is open to
Women's Studies majors and minors and acknowledges outstanding undergraduate
scholarship.
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