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Enid Wilson Undergraduate Fellowship

Funding Opportunities

The Enid Wilson Undergraduate Fellowship supports innovative research by undergraduate honors students from any department pursuing work related to women, gender, and/or sexuality.

For application due date, see here. 

Application materials should include:

  • a three to five page description of your research project
  • a letter of support from your advisor
  • a brief description of how you would use the grant funds, if awarded

2024-25 Recipients

  • San Kwon ’25, Comparative Literature
    “Theorizing Ellipses as a Critical Concept”
  • Alissa Simon ’25, Political Science, Gender and Sexuality Studies
    “Private Bodies, Public Protections: Imagining an Affirmative Privacy Right in Domestic Violence Legal Reform”

 

Past Recipients

  • 2023-24: Sophia Block ’24, Sociology, International and Public Affairs
    “The Intersection of Disability and Race Politics: Parental Perceptions of Youth Criminalization”
  • 2022-23: Simran Singh ’23, Health and Human Biology
    “‘Cripping’ and Queering Health – Understanding the Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Needs and Experiences of Neurodivergent Sexual Minoritized People: A Scoping Review”
  • 2021-22: Lily Willis ’22.5, Gender and Sexuality Studies, English
    “‘Expressing the Inexpressible,’ and Other Queer Sentiments: Language and Self in Contemporary Queer Memoir”
  • 2019-20:
    • Tabitha Payne ’20, Development Studies
      “Golden Voice”
    • Camila Pelsinger ’20, International Relations
      “Restorative responses to gender-based violence in the United States & New Zealand”
    • Mohammed-Reda Semlani ’20, Development Studies, Economics
      “The economic impact of the Argan tree on the local communities in southwestern Morocco”
  • 2018-19:
    • Makedah Hughes ’19, Comparative Literature
      “Mauve (2010) by Fatou Diome: A Translation Exploration of the Linguistic Constructions of Blackness”
    • Caroline Mulligan ’19, English, History
      “Landdyke Legacies”
    • Andy M.T. Pham ’19, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies
      “Pushing for Purity: Conceptions and Consequences of Cleanliness during the US AIDS Epidemic of the 80s and 90s”
  • 2017-18:
    • Margot Cohen ’18, International Relations
      “Women’s Rights as Human Rights: The Case of Femicide in Chile”
    • Emily Sun ’18, Ethnic Studies
      “‘The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place:’ Subterranean Bodies and Disoriented Space in Women of Color Performance Art”
    • Natalie Zeif ’18, Education
      “Negotiating Sexuality and School Work in South Florida: Anita Bryant’s Anti-Queer Teacher Movement”
  • 2016-17:
    • Camille Garnsey ’17, Latin American Studies, Public Health
      “The history of reproductive rights in Cuba”
    • Katherine Grusky ’17, History, Latin American Studies
      “Digging Below the Surface: Gender and Family Relations in Chilean Copper Mine, El Teniente, 1904-1930”
    • Andrea Zhu ’17, Development Studies
      “Specter of the Past, Intrusion of the Future: Gender and (Im)mobility at the China-Myanmar Border”