Grants & Awards

Every year WGS South offers a number of awards to support women’s, gender, and sexuality studies scholarship and programming in the South

Awards

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025

WGS South is pleased to announce Student Travel Grants for travel to the WGS-South Annual Conference. 
Students applying for a travel grant must present at the WGS-South conference and attend the conference business lunch to receive their award.
Both undergraduate and graduate students who attend college/university within the WGS-South membership region are eligible and encouraged to apply. Up to ten travel grants will be awarded, with priority given to students at institutions with WGS-South institutional memberships.

The application will consist of the following:
Please submit a brief statement (including your paper/project title) explaining your interest in attending the 2025 WGS South Conference in Atlanta. Beyond your presentation focus, what are you hoping to learn? What conversations are you hoping to have? What communities are you hoping to connect with? (please no more than 250 words).

Please complete the form below and submit application to WGS-South at sewsaorg@gmail.com no later than 11:59 pm on January 31, 2025.
Winners will be notified on Feb 7th via email.

Past Awards

INSTITUTIONAL MINI-GRANTS
Application Deadline: February 15, 2023

Institutional members may apply for mini-grants to support activities that further the mission of their program and WGS South. Special consideration will be given to events with speakers/scholars from the region.

Awards up to $500 will be made. Award-winning events will be featured on the WGS South website. WGS South is to be credited as a sponsor of the event. A statement that acknowledges that the WGS South has sponsored or co-sponsored the event should appear on all promotional material.

The application will consist of the following:

  • Formal request to Dr. Hil Malatino, WGS South President

  • One-page description of the event stating needs for funding and how WGS South will be acknowledged

When an institution is awarded a grant, a copy of relevant publicity should be submitted to the WGS South Secretary for WGS South's archives.

Applications should be submitted via email to Dr. Hil Malatino, President, at HMalatino@psu.edu by February 15, 2023. Selected recipients will be notified by March 1, 2023.

ALISON PIEPMEIER OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD Application Deadline: March 17, 2025

Dr. Alison Piepmeier served as SEWSA (now WGS South) President from 2006-2008 with dedication and excellence. This award was created in gratitude and in honor of her memory. 

This award is designed to assist undergraduate/graduate students who are members of WGS South with their research and professional development or relevant activist or campus-community work. The outstanding student’s research, activism, or service/outreach should be consistent with the mission of WGS South to foster scholarship on and activism eliminating oppression and discrimination on the basis of sex, gender, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. The award is $500 and can be used for professional travel, books, supplies, and/or equipment. This grant originated in 2016 and is awarded to one applicant every other year.  Students may apply themselves or be nominated by an instructor or mentor. 

Application Deadline: March 17, 2025, 5 pm

Eligible applicants:

  • Must be pursuing a [B.A., M.A. and/or Ph.D.] at a university in the WGS-South region and be in good standing with their program.

  • Must be current WGS-South members and have been a member for a minimum of two years.


The application will consist of the following:

  • Letter of nomination (can be letter of self nomination or letter from nominating mentor or instructor) which includes dates of WGS SOUTH membership/membership status.

  • A two-page proposal from the applicant that addresses:

  • Aim and purpose of the research

  • Methodology

  • Significance of the research to the research mission of WGS-South

  • An itemized budget of expenses to be covered by the award

  • A one-page curriculum vita/resume

Please send completed application materials (please no more than 7 pages) to WGS South at sewsaorg@gmail.com by March 17, 2025. The award winner will be notified by April 12th and featured in the WGS South Spring Newsletter.  Note, please send the entire application together in one email, with “Piepmeier Award Application” in the subject line.

Grants