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Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Awards

Berenice A. Carroll Memorial Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice Award

Award Guidelines, 2025

APPLICATION FORM, 2025

Berenice A. Carroll was a professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Purdue University and a professor emerita of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Berenice Carroll's main fields of interest were peace research, political theory, and feminist politics. She served as President of the National Women’s Studies Association and on the editorial board of the National Women’s Studies Association Journal. She was co-editor of The Political and Social Thought of Women: An Anthology (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2000). She also had numerous publications on topics relating to women, non-violence, and power. In addition she had over one hundred appearances as lecturer or presenter, chair or discussant, at professional conferences, workshops and symposia, universities, radio and television interviews in the United States and abroad. In addition to her impressive scholarly accomplishments, her commitment to Feminism, Peace and Social Justice is of particular import to those of us here today as Berenice was instrumental in the creation of women’s studies program at Purdue and served as Director of the Women’s Studies program between 1990-2000. She continued her social justice work through her efforts with the Lafayette Area Peace Coalition and Historians Against War.

The impetus for the Berenice A. Carroll Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice Award came from a symposium in November 2007 at Purdue University held in honor of Berenice.  The Award is intended to foster and recognize contributions to scholarship and activism that are related to engagement with feminist studies, peace studies, and other social justice issues.  They aim to honor Professor Carroll’s contributions to teaching, scholarship, and activism including anti-war, feminist, pro-ERA, anti-sweatshop activism, to name a few, by recognizing those students involved in feminist or social justice work—be it purely academic, purely activist, or a mixture of both. 

PAST WINNERS     PROJECT RECONIGNIZED
2022 Graduate Ariel Smith "Help Patrick Keep Truckin"
2022 Graduate Ozgun Basmaz "Century of Struggle:  Middle East Women's Voices on Anti-imperialism, Anti-militarism, and Feminism (1922-2022)”
2022  Undergraduate Danial Dzulkifli "Religious Feminism - The Reconciliation of 'Oppositional' Idealogies through Transnational Feminist Frameworks”
2021 Graduate Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle "The PMS Project:  Exploring Communication's Role in Social Constructs Around Menstrual Health of Women"
2021 Graduate Amber Lusvardi  "The End of Child Bride: Social Movements and Strategic Action on Underage Marriage”
2021 Undergraduate Urvi Gupta "Injustice within The Odyssey”"
2020 Graduate Meghana Rawa “Shea Moisture’s Crisis: A Case Study of Racialized Organizational Identity and Identification”
2020 Undergraduate Claire Glenn "Take Back the Night"
2020 Undergraduate Claire LeMonnier  "IFSA Internship Reflection and Review:  How Time as a Resource Impacts Gender Inequality"

 

The Carolyn C. Perrucci Undergraduate Achievement Award

Professor Carolyn C. Perrucci
Department of Sociology
Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Affiliated Faculty member
Women’s Studies Chair 1980-81; Co-Chair 1986-1988
 
The award is named after Carolyn Perrucci, professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies affiliated faculty who has been involved with the program since its inception.
Every other year Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies program offers an award to a graduating WGSS major with a high Grade Point Average who also has been involved in progressive campus co-curricular activities, especially in feminist programming, and activism, thus realizing feminism’s foundational concepts of feminist theory and practice.
 
PRIZE:  $250
Deadline to apply is March 1, 2025 by 4:00 PM
 
To apply: Submit an essay of one to two pages describing how feminist concepts have informed or inspired your political or community activism, and the ways in which your activism reflects what you have learned in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. Include a transcript and a brief cover letter. Submit materials to Ashley Purpura, wgss@purdue.edu. Deadline is Saturday, March 1, 2025 by 4:00 PM. The prize will be awarded at an awards reception in April (TBD).
 
PAST WINNERS    
2022 Sophia Ritz Winner in Sociology 
2021 Allison Reed  Winner in WGSS
2020 Hadley E. Brouhard Winner in Sociology
2019 Hanya Malik Winner in WGSS