Congratulations Winners
2020
Allison Piepmeier Outstanding Student Award
Tanner Crunelle, College of Charleston
“I want to push the boundaries at what is thought to be acceptable. I’m excited that SEWSA holds space for these kinds of critical discussions and I am excited to pursue these opportunities and be supported in the process.”
Dr. Allison Piepmeier served as SEWSA President from 2006-2008 with dedication and excellence. This award was created in gratitude and in honor of her memory. It is designed to assist undergraduate students who are members of SEWSA with their research and professional development or relevant activist or campus-community work.
Student Travel Grant Recipients
Lauren Bodenlos (Agnes Scott), “Topping Jesus: Escaping Theological Subordination by Breaking the Body of Christ.”
Andrea Cetre (University of South Florida), “Understanding the care policies and its importance for rural women in Latin American. Case study: Colombia”
Tanner Crunelle (College of Charleston), “Addressing Black Cultural Trauma through Lemonade” and “The Poetics of Darl Bundren and the Southern Faggot”
Jessica Fisher (Georgia State University), “Trans Women, Sex Panic, and the Construction of the Sexual Body”
Kenya Gadsden (College of Charlston), “Georgia Douglas Johnson's Halfway House salons in DC”
Tanisha Holmes (Spelman College), “Ancestral Veneration” and “Guiding Our Hands: Orishas at Birth Work”
Brayden Milam (Spelman College), “Advocacy and Accessibility: A Look at Changing the Museum World” and two roundtable presentations: (“Undergraduate Engagement: Benefits and Techniques” and “That's One for the Ages: Intergenerational Affinity Building Amongst Queer Southerners of Different Ages”
Estefanía Palacios-Tamayo (University of Georgia), “Body-Household-Community: A multiscale analysis of campesinas’ participation in community water systems in southeast Ecuador”
Sabeehah Ravat (University of South Florida), “I Deserve Everything: Confidence as a Feminist Tool in Women’s Sports” and “Muslims Under the Rainbow: An Exploration of the Struggles and Experiences of Muslims Who Identify as Sexual Minorities”
Malia Womack (Ohio State University), “Disrupting US Imperialism and Neoliberalization: Latin American Transnational Advocacy Networks Fight Back”