Women's, Gender, and Sexualities Studies Awards
Berenice A. Carroll Memorial Feminism, Peace, and Social Justice Award
Award Guidelines, 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
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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 |