Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant
The MacLeod grant supports undergraduate honors research on issues having to do with women, gender, and/or sexuality, or research that brings a feminist analysis to bear on a problem or set of questions. Students currently working on honors theses in any field are eligible to apply. The $1000 grant is to be used to further research.
For application due date, see here.
Application materials should include:
- a three to five page description of your honors thesis
- a letter of support from your thesis advisor
- a brief description of how you would use the grant funds, if awarded
The grant honors the life of Helen Terry MacLeod (1901-1994) who did not herself have a college education but who helped support the undergraduate, graduate, and professional school educations of her grandchildren, including Joan MacLeod Heminway ’83.
2023/24 Recipient
Alexandra L. Lehman '24, Gender and Sexuality Studies and International and Public Affairs, "Imagined Bodies in Imagined Communities: (Re)Producing the Nation in Bosnia and Herzegovina"
Past Recipients
- 2022/23 - Leona Hariharan '23, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies; Neuroscience
"Embodied Imaginations: Performance, Care, and Healing Justice"
- 2021/22 - Emma Blake, International Relations
"Gender-based Violence and State-Sponsored Aggression: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence and State Militarization"
- 2020/21 - Sabrina Bajwa, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Hispanic Studies
"Reproductive (In)justice in Detention"
- 2019/20 - Camila Pelsinger, International Relations
"Restorative responses to gender-based violence in the United States & New Zealand"
- 2018/19 - Marielle E. Burt, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Literary Arts
"Directing Towards Social Dialogue"
- 2017/18 - Brigitte Dale, History
"Radical Actors: The WSPU’s Staging of the Suffrage Campaign"
- 2016/17 - Vi L. Mai, Latin American & Caribbean Studies; International Relations
"Contesting HIV/AIDS in Cuba: The Stories Behind the Headlines"
- 2015/2016 - Christin Aucapino, Public Health
"Challenges on The Front Line: HIV Services Provided in Havana, Cuba"
- 2014/2015 - Patricia Ekpo, American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies
"Everyday Utopia in Virtual Spaces: Tumblr, Depression, and Queer Futurity"
- 2013/2014 - Lindsay Sovern, History; Gender and Sexuality Studies
"Gorbachev and Yeltsin's Masculine Rivalry"
- 2012/2013 - Catharine Savage, History; Gender and Sexuality Studies
"The Personal is Academic: Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University"
- 2011/2012 - Co-recipients Ann Crawford-Roberts, Anthropology
"Conceptualization of stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in Botswana"
- 2011/2012 - Emily Mepham, Gender and Sexuality Studies
"Working Mothers: Challenges and Barriers in the Perinatal Period"
- 2010/2011 - Taylor Lane, Comparative Literature
"Enterprise and Habit, or, How to Talk to Your Neighbor: Alcoholics Anonymous as a Social Model"
- 2009/2010 - Joy Neumeyer, History
"Public Discourse, Private Lives: Love, Sex, and Family in Late Soviet Russia"
- 2008/2009 - Karen Dannemiller, Engineering
"Household formaldehyde detection device"
- 2007/2008 - Elisabeth A. Stelson, Education
"Saving Women from Suffrage: Women Antisuffragists in Illinois, 1897-1913"
From 1995-2007 the Pembroke Center awarded this prize for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis that addressed questions of gender or women, or that brought a feminist analysis to bear on a topic of study. In 2007, this award was changed from a prize for a completed honors thesis to a research grant available to support undergraduate honors research.
Past Prize Recipients
- 2007 - Victoria L. Fortuna, Comparative Literature - "Unmaking Materiality: The Politics of Representation in Argentina’s 'Dirty War'"
- 2006 - Jennifer Michelle Keighley, Political Science and Public Policy - "The Gubernatorial Role Model Effect: Do Female Political Chief Executives Improve Women’s Rates of Political Representation?"
- 2005 - Sushil Chacko N. Jacob, International Relations - "The Peaks of Power: Women and Development in Himachal Pradesh, India"
- 2004 - Tara Kolar Ramchandani, International Relations - "The Link Between Microfinance and Gender Development Theory: The Bolivian Cases of BancoSol and ProMujer"
- 2003 - Sarah L. Mehta, Development Studies - "The Problematic Citizen: India’s Muslim Women and the Discord Between Rights and Culture"
- 2003 - Sarah Talbot Staley, Public Policy - "Breaking the Glass Ceiling and Controlling the Floor: The Role of Women Representatives in the United States Senate"
- 2002 - Bonnell Graedon, Religious Studies - "Guard the Mouth: Fasting and Silence in Early Christianity"
- 2001 - Jennifer Marie Cartwright - "Credit Program Participation and Women’s Empowerment in Bangladesh"
- 2001 - Rose Sarita Shuman, International Relations - "Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: The Invisible Epidemic Ugandan Refugee Settlements"
- 2000 - Lindsay Edwards Kelley, Art Semiotics - "The Spiritual Reading: Mysticism in the Twentieth Century"
- 1999 - Rebecca Schulman, Political Science - "Women in European Politics: What European Democracies Can Teach the United States"
- 1998 - Dana Edell, Classics - Maenadic Experience: Euripides' Bacche and Beyond"
- 1997 - Emma Wasserman, Religious Studies - "Death in Classical Athens: An Interpretation of Women, Gender, and Power Relationships in the Greek Funeral"
- 1996 - Yael K Kropsky, Comparative Literature - "Unavowed Confessions Voided Avowels: Excerpts from Claude Cahun's Aveux non Avenus"
- 1995 - Karina Palmira Lago, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies - "To Punish or Not to Punish: Domestic Violence and the Criminal Justice System in Brazil"