Ninth Annual
Kathryn L. Harris Women's Studies Paper Competition
The UAHuntsville Women’s Studies Program awards annual prizes for undergraduate and graduate papers that deal substantially with women or women’s issues. The contest accepts submissions in three categories: upper-division academic, lower-division academic, and creative (both divisions). Each category offers a first prize of $100. In addition, a second prize of $50 is awarded in the upper-division academic and creative categories.

Submission Rules and Assessment Criteria

Winners in 2009

LOWER DIVISION

 

First Prize: Gloria Powell

“Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better: The Wife of Bath Uses Scripture,” written for EH 205 British Literature I (Dr. Angela Balla)

 

Second Prize: Sarah Fisher

“A Man’s Drink: Clytaemestra’s Revenge in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon,” written for EH 250 Honors World Literature Seminar I (Dr. Stephen Szilagyi)

 

UPPER DIVISION

 

First Prize: Gloria Powell

“Why Listen to the Women Talk in Othello?” written for EH 440 ST Othello (Dr. Jeffrey Nelson)

 

Second Prize: Jennifer Staton

“’Civil’ Enslavement: Early Modern English Views of Gaelic Irish and Sub-Saharan African Women,” written for HY 498 ST Comparative Slavery (Dr. Christine Sears)

 

Honorable Mention: Kate Blake

“Cultural Baggage: The Influence of Greek and Roman Cultural Attitudes toward Women in the Epistles of St. Paul,” written for ARH 320 Women in Antiquity (Dr. Lillian Joyce)

 
For additional information, please contact Dr. Angela Balla at angela.balla@uah.edu or 824-2378 or Dr. Christine Sears at christine.sears@uah.edu or 824-2573.

(left to right) Jennifer Staton, Kate Blake, Gloria Powell
(not pictured: Sarah Fisher)

 

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