Every year, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program presents its annual awards in honor of the late Dr. Nan Nowik, Associate Professor of English (1972-1988), former Women’s Coordinator, and co-founder of the Women’s Resource Center at Denison University. The awards were created to celebrate outstanding student work in academic scholarship, activism, artistic expression, and essay. Here are this year’s winners!
Noelle Boyages ‘21 - Senior Academic Scholarship
African American Women and Title IX: Where is Title VI?
Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Senior Academic Scholarship (Honorable Mention)
Embodied Experiences and Analysis of Denison University Accessibility
Joan Do-Truong ‘23 - Activism
Surviving Through Activism
Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Activism (Honorable Mention)
Menstrual Product Activism
Rojika Sharma ‘22 - Activism (Honorable Mention)
Activism Through Art and Workshops
Temitope Sholola ‘21 - Artistic Expression
Poem: My body is inappropriate
Zoe Loitz ‘21 - Essay
Colonized Embodiment: Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Contemporary United States
Muhammad Ali Imran ‘24 - Essay
Patriarchy v. Aurat March
Smelanda Jean-Baptiste ‘21 - Essay (Honorable Mention)
Hubertine Auclert and the Use of Algerian Women in the Late 19th-Early 20th Century Colonial Context
Sky Calderón ‘21 - Essay (Honorable Mention)
Womanist Theology and Christian Paradigms
