Women's Studies 2019-2020 Awards
The College of Arts & Letters is proud to recognize the accomplishments and many awards earned by the scholars in the Department of Women's Studies during the 2019-2020 school year. They include:
Ruth Osorio won 2020 Kate Broderick Faculty Award for Excellence in Promoting Educational Accessibility, based upon course offering and campus leadership.
Amy Milligan won the Jeffrey B. Spence Award for Interfaith Understanding from the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities and the Community Leader Award for Unity, Service, and Leadership from The Urban League of Hampton Roads.
Jennifer Fish became a SCHEV Finalist, was honored with the John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award and was awarded the Feminine Freedom Lifetime Achievement Award by the African American Creative Community Series of Hampton Roads.
Fellowships
Liz Groeneveld accepted three fellowships during the AY 2019-2020.
Dresher Center for the Humanities Inclusion Imperative Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland—Baltimore County
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium Research Grant, Massachusetts Historical Society
Research Grant, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
Grants
Amy Milligan earned four external grants in addition to the Summer Research Fellowship Program Grant from the Office of Research at Old Dominion University
Southern Jewish Historical Society Research Grant
NEH Summer Institute: Privilege and Prejudice: Jewish History in the American South, College of Charleston
American Jewish Archives, Rabbi Theodore S. Levy Tribute Fellowship
Scholar in Residence, Congregation Beth Israel, Bangor, Maine
Cathleen Rhodes earned a regional public research grant from the Virginia Beach Historic Preservation Commission for Tidewater Queer Oral History project.
Jennifer Fish completed her 5-year award from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada (Canada's largest national funding source for social sciences).