Six Winners of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has announced six winners of its 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies. The fellowship supports Ph.D. candidates in the final year of dissertation writing. Winners of the fellowship are doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose research is focused on women and gender studies.

Since 1974 more than Ph.D. candidates have received the fellowships. This year’s winners and their topics are listed below.

Tera Agyepong is a Ph.D. candidate in African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is writing her dissertation on Boundaries of Innocence: Race, Sex, and the Criminalization of Black Children in Chicago’s Juvenile Justice System, 1896-1940.

Kerry Crawford is a doctoral student in political science at George Washington University. Her dissertation is entitled, Punctuated Silence: Variation in the International Response to Wartime Sexual Abuse.

Julie Enszer is a Ph.D. student in women’s studies at the University of Maryland. Her research is entitled,  The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives: Lesbian Print Culture in the United States from 1969 to 1989.

Julia Kowalski is a doctoral student in comparative human development at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation is entitled, Claiming Care: Regulating Gendered Violence in Jaipur’s Women’s Rights Network.

Nazanin Shahrokni is pursuing a Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her research is on Gender Segregated Spaces: Traversing the ‘Public’ in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Carly Thomsen is a doctoral candidate in feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is writing her dissertation entitled, I’m Just Me: Queer Challenges to Visibility and Identity Politics from Lesbian Women in the Rural Midwest.