Graduate Student Paper Prize
The FRI Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded to an original paper written by a University of New Mexico graduate student who is working toward an MA, PhD, or professional degree.
The author of the prize-winning paper will receive a $300 award. The recipient will give a public reading of the paper in the Fall semester, or whenever is most convenient for presenter and FRI.
Essays will be judged on the use of Feminist, Queer, Critical Race, or Critical Indigenous approach to analyze topics related to gender or sexuality; the quality and clarity of writing; originality; and effective use of primary source material where applicable.
Please note that papers are read by faculty from all across campus and thus should take a broad audience into consideration. The essay must not have been previously published, but it should be of publishable quality. We are looking for submissions that are nearly ready to be submitted to journals appropriate to the entrant’s discipline.
Entry requirements:
- A cover page with current contact information (department affiliation, degree status, campus mail address, e-mail address, and telephone number)
- Abstract, no more than 200 words
- 6000-8000 words, including bibliography and notes
- Style Guide: Please follow appropriate discipline’s style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago) for citations and bibliography
Please submit your paper electronically as a single PDF or .doc/x Word file in the order listed above to Ailesha Ringer @ femresin@unm.edu. Incomplete submissions will automatically be disqualified. For more information or questions, please contact femresin@unm.edu.
The deadline for submission is Friday March 22, 2019 by 5pm MST.
Previous Recipients
2018
Susmitha Udayan, "Testimonial Bandes Dessinées: Bearing Witness to Gender Related Prosecution of Refugee Women."
2017
Rachel Levitt, "Rethinking School Shooters: Queer Futures, Gay Panic, and the Right to Victimization."
2016
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2015
Yuka Doherty, "The State, Sex, and Women's Agency."
2014
Kelsey Martin, "Ambiguous Consent: An Analysis of Female Agency in Eighteenth-Century French fêtes galantes."
2013
Justin Brock, "The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur."
2011
Erin Murrah-Mandril, "Misreading the Feminine: Representation of Women in the Far West in Mary Hallock Foote’s 'Maverick.'"
2010
Susan Ruth, "Women's Toolkits: Engendering Paleoindian Technology." (first place)
Leigh Johnson, "Chicana Literary Activism: Motherwork as a Response to Domestic Violence."(second place)
2009
Stacey Kikendall, “’The eye of Glorvina met mine’: Vision, Gender, and Imperialism in The Wild Irish Girl.”
2008
Cindy Murillo, paper “Reclaiming Motherhood through Exile: Body Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
2007
Ying Xu, “Edited Melancholy and the Construction of Self: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.”
2006
Andrea López, “Beyond the Maquilas: Gender Discourse and Gendered Violence in Cd. Juárez.”
Justin Parks, “‘Our Eyes Look Out’: The View from the Window and the Noise from the Street in Two Poems by Mina Loy.”
2005
Birgit Schmidt-Rosemann, "The Pleasure of Destroying It:" Creating and Undoing Standards of Female Virtue in The Female Husband and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.”
2002
Hadar Dubowsky for “Feminist Methodology and a Qualitative Case Study of a Masculine Female Adolescent.”
