Susan B. Anthony Writing Award
Open to any Niagara University undergraduate who writes a critical paper about women’s issues.
Two Awards Will Be Given
- One to a first-year student
- One to a sophomore, junior, or senior
Requirements
- Length for first-year students: 4-15 pages.
- For sophomores, juniors, & seniors: 6-15 pages.
- A condensed version of an honors thesis chapter is acceptable.
Submissions Will Be Evaluated on These Criteria
- Paper must exhibit sensitivity to women’s issues.
- Paper must have been written for an undergraduate course at Niagara University within the last three semesters, or be an original piece of writing.
- For first-year students: Paper must exhibit high-quality research and appropriate documentation; or must closely examine a primary text about women or women's issues; or must critically examine a woman's issue.
- For sophomores, juniors, and seniors: Paper must exhibit high-quality research and include appropriate documentation.
- Paper must exhibit high-quality writing and include a clear thesis.
- Paper must be of interest to a general audience.
- Resubmitted papers will not be accepted unless substantially revised.
- Only one submission per student is allowed.
- Submit four paper copies to Sharon Green, Chair of Writing Awards, Office of Academic Support, Seton Hall, First Floor.
- Do not put any identifying information on your paper. When you bring your submission to the Office of Academic Support, you will be asked to complete a cover sheet with identifying information.
Monetary awards will be given on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at 7 p.m. at the Susan B. Anthony Birthday Celebration in DNL 127. Thank you to Dr. Nancy McGlen for funding the awards.
Previous Winners of the Susan B. Anthony Writing Award
| Year | Winner | Winning Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Jessica Yagoda | "Women Matter: The Importance of Women in Science and Engineering" |
| Marissa Felser | "The Origin of Turkey's Headscarf Ban and the Implications for Women: Past and Present" | |
| 2012 | Amy Young | "Media's Construction of the 'Perfect' Body: Taking a Closer Look at Weight Loss Supplements" |
| Kelsey McGinty | "The Woman Caught in Adultery: The Story of Forgiveness, A Closer Look at John 7:53-8:12" | |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Trzaska | "The Perception of Women in the Workplace" |
| 2011 | Kaitlin Harvey | "C'est un Monde de Femmes: Simone de Beauvoir's Unique Approach to Resisting a Patriarchal Society" |
| 2010 | Sebastian Galbo | "'A Landscape of Imperfections': Sylvia Plath's Quest for Dismantling and Reconstructing Natural Landscapes in Patriarchal Literary Traditions" |
| 2010 | Colline Landry | "When Is It Enough? How Media's Portrayal of Women Is Affecting Women in Real Life" |
| 2009 | Daphne Wyse | "I'll Cut Off My Hair and March Off to War" |
| 2009 | Sarah Chaudhry | "Rape Culture" (Honorable Mention) |
| 2009 | Lauren Ceier | "The Woman Behind the Mask: Living in a TIme In Which She Had No Voice" (Honorable Mention) |
| 2008 | Sarah Traphagen | "'The Walls of Her Forsaken Home Seemed to Encircle Her': Dorcas Bourne's Domestication of the Foreign in Hawthorne's 'Roger Malvin's Burial'" |
| 2007 | Kelly Jabar | “Women’s Rights in the Middle East: Islam vs. Culture” |
| 2006 | Betty Andropolis | “From Interdependence to ‘Female Parasitism’: The Evolution of Marriage, Motherhood and Women’s Loss of Identity due to the Rise of the ‘Sexuo-Economic Relationship’ ” |
| 2006 | Meghan Anson | “‘Cruel-hungry’: Appetite in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgensons” |
| 2005 | Nola Cornett-Heidrich | “Gender Perceptions and Battered Women Who Kill: It Matters Who the Jurors Are” |
| 2005 | Kristen Wagner | “Manipulating the Account of Hannah Dustan” |
| 2004 | Katie Young | “Female Genital Mutilation: An Increasingly Global Concern” |
| 2003 | Michelle A. Cooke | “The Conditioning of Children to Fit Stereotypical Gender Roles” |
| 2002 | Patricia Alaimo | “Words, Memory and a Young Mind: In Tina DeRosa’s Paper Fish” |