Awards & Honors

Nan Nowik Memorial Awards 2022-2023

The Women's and Gender Studies Program announces its annual awards for outstanding scholarly, artistic and/or activist student work.

April 28, 2023

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!

Joan Do-Truong ‘23 - Senior Academic Scholarship
Cultivating Remembrance, Resiliency and Reformation: A Call for an Asian American Feminist Studies Course to be Implemented at Denison University
Seyeong Hanlim Lim ‘23 - Artistic Expression (1st Place)
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Lexi Hall ‘23 - Artistic Expression (Honorable Mention)
Consumption
Jisoo Kim ‘23 - Essay (1st Place)
Escape the Corset Movement in South Korea: Women’s Resistance Against Socially Constructed Femininity
Noah Chartier ‘25 and Kee Olandesca ‘26 - Essay (Honorable Mention)
Of Boys and Men in Feminism

Posted date: April 28, 2023

Spotlights

Denison English professor Diana Mafe

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Joan Do-Truong '23 celebrates her Davis Projects for Peace award

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Laden ’19 watching the sunset in Portugal

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An Opportunity in the Canary Islands

A Fulbright Scholarship will bring Julia Laden ’19 to the Canary Islands, where she will teach English to young children.

Dana Phillips

How We Learn

Understanding Social Change Through Hip-hop

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How We Learn

Passing on Being Passive

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How We Learn

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How We Learn

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Rian Matthews

How We Learn

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How We Learn

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CeCe McGee ’15

Where We Go

Holding the Trust

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How We Learn

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Portraits by Harper Leich.

How We Learn

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