Graduate Student Awards in Women's and Gender Studies
The Joan Lukas Rothenberg Graduate Student Service Award recognizes the work of a WGS teaching assistant or CAS student who has contributed to feminist education on campus through direct service to the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and/or the larger SU community. Joan Lukas Rothenberg was recognized as both an artist and activist. She was a founding member of the first women’s consciousness-raising group which evolved in to the Women’s Information Center in 1972. Ms. Rothenberg was in the process of completing her Ph.D. in Social Science and a CAS in women’s studies when she died in 1990.
Past Winners
- Natalie El-Eid
- Natalie Gallagher
- 2023: Taveeshi Singh
- 2022: Ionah ME Scully
- 2021: Feminist of Color Graduate Students Collective (Mirella Pretell, Natalie Gallagher, Julissa Collazo Lopez, and Lida Colon, representatives)
- 2020: BIPOC Graduate Student Group (Ionah ME Scully, representative)
- 2019: Laura Jordan Jaffee
- 2018: Seth E. Davis
- 2017: Laura Jordan Jaffee
- 2016: Kimberly Natalia Williams
- 2015: Sherri Williams
The Toni Taverone Graduate Paper Prize recognizes excellence among graduate students in Women’s and Gender Studies classes. Selected papers demonstrate an exceptional grasp of gender analyses and/or feminist theory. Toni Tavarone earned her Ph.D. in Social Science from Syracuse University in 1983 and was a certificate of advanced studies student in the early days of the women’s studies program. In the early 1980’s she was active in the Syracuse Peace Council and with the Socialist-Feminist Collective, a study group of local women who published the groundbreaking journal, Salt City Press.
Past Winners
- 2024: Karisa Krystal Bridgelal “World” Traveling Through the Crown Lands: An exploration into Indo-Triniidadian Women’s Agentic Land-based Praxis
- 2024: Teukie Martin The Yellow (im)Peril: The Limitations of Clinical Research on Asian American Mental Distress
- 2023: Bread and Roses: Bramsh Khan, Poonam, Argade, and Taveeshi Singh: Organization of the Dalit History Month events
- 2022: Emine Naz Oktay, "Loving Wisdoms in Discomfort"
- 2021: Ionah Scully, “Braided Stories of Desire: A Nehiyaw Two Spirit Methodology of Homecoming”
- 2020: Reneé Brown, “Of Reputation and Respectability: An Exploration of Higglers Subjectivity in Downtown, Jamaica”
- 2019: Danae Michelle Faulk, “Fat Across Borders: Transnational Feminism Interventions in Fat Studies Praxis” AND Joss Rae Willsbrough, Category Is…: The Transforming “Realness” of Drag”
- 2018: Shanique Mothersill "Re-rooting: Decolonizing Black Women's Hair"
- 2017: Abel Gomez "Decolonizing the Chicana Spirit: Indigenous Religion and Chicana Feminism"
- 2016: Joe Edward Hatfield “Katrina at the Intersection: Gender, Race, Class, and the Environment in Trouble the Water”
- 2015: Laura Jordan Jaffee “Unsettled Global Disability Frameworks: Settler Colonialism and Disability in Israel/Palestine” and Ariane Vani Kannan “Decolonizing Model Minority Suicide”