Annaliese Pope, R. Graham Morton and Evita Medina Peralta Price have been named winners of the annual Western Caucus on Women’s Issues (WCWI) essay awards, announced at the WCWI General Meeting on Tuesday.
Open to both graduate and undergraduates students, the contest consists of an original scholarly essay involving research on women in some form.
Pope’s essay, Identity Politics and the Riot ‘?’s: An examination of violence against females in punk subculture, won the graduate award; Morton’s essay, Whether the Study of Letters is Fitting for a Christian Woman: An Examination of Anna Naria van Schurman’s 17th Century Feminism, and Price’s essay, Sexualizing White Women, Fetishizing Other Women: A Closer Look at Cultural Appropriation, split the undergraduate award.
Formed in 1980, the WCWI promotes and safeguards the interests of women at Western and its affiliates.