Studies in Sexualities Essay Prize

Winner:

• Olivia Gilbert, “'The Ballad of Sexual Optimism' and Sex Positivity“ 

Highly Commended Essay: 

• Cira Letteri, “The Prostitution of an Image”

Winner:

• Iris Wu "Naked Power: Digital Nudity as Queer Resistance in China’s Anti-Domestic Violence Campaign"

Highly Commended Essay: 

• Ariella Shulman"Sex Work, Mother, and Gendered Stigmatization"

Winner:

• Jay Jones "Race-ing the Family, Denying Black Kinship"

Highly Commended Essay: 

• Claudia Smith "Phallogocentrism and Emotional Dissonance in Pornography: Exploring Feminist Theories on Identity, Pleasure, and Power"

Winner:

• Karina Nehra, "Care and Femininity in Colonial India: The Gendered Medical Gaze"

Highly Commended Essay: 

• Gabriella Shapcott, "How Queerness Enhances Spiritual and Religious Practices in Africa"

Winner:
       •   Katy Mayfield,"Affect and Agnotology in SB 8's Abortion Rhetoric"

Highly Commended Essay:
       •   Amalia Tenuta, "From 'Fetal Rights' Legislation to the 'Transgender Child': Considering a 'Trans of Color' Critique of Reproductive Justice Frameworks" 

• Emma Kantor, "Agents of Destruction : Sexual Assault Realisation in Girls and I May Destroy You". Written for Film 102 with Dr. Michelle Schrieber in the Department of Film and Media Studies.

• Hannah Thomas Risman, "Where can the Black/Queer Body Rest in Amerika?". Written for Black Queer Studies with Dr. Alix Chapman in the Dept. of African American Studies.

Winner

• Kira Tucker: "Embracing the Abject: Queer as a Term of Linguistic Resistance”

Winner

• Misa Stekl: “Queer Bio/Necropolitics in Terrorist Assemblages and Beyond”

Highly Commended Undergraduate Essays

• Laura Briggs: “Class Boundaries, Masculinization, and Sexual Assault in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon”
• Felipe de Almeid: “At the Margins of the Homosexual/Transgender Divide”

Winner:

• Naima Dams, “Consent in War: International Criminal Court's Approach to Wartime Sexual Violence”

Highly Commended Essay:

• Mina Lee, “The Empire and Its Victims: the Reception of 1 Thessalonians 4 in Evangelical Purity Culture”

Winner:

• Sana Noon,"Coming of (R)age in Pakistan: The Event and the Everyday"

Highly Commended Essays:

• Josh Howard, "Can’t Keep a Good Hoedown”: Queer Country Dancing and Community Building in Atlanta, Georgia" 
• Mariana Rodríguez-Espinoza, "Caribbean Geographies of Refusal"

Winner:

• Emilie Casey, "Pastoralizing Care: Carceral Power, Sexual Deviance, and Psychological Disability in the Early Clinical Pastoral Education Movement"

Highly Commended Essay:

• Joslyn Gardner, "Feeling Ecstatic: Ecstasy as Embodied Practice" 

Winner:
       •  Corwin Davis, "Kin/folk: Notes on Black queer Diaspora and Ancillary Modes of Kinship" 

Highly Commended Essay:
       •  Mansi Hitesh, "Troubling Transracialism: Transgender, Transnationality, and the Progress Narrative of Trans"  

• Elara Sherman, "Birthing Monsters : Fetal Memorials, Horror Shows, and Feminine Writing of the Clandestine Abortion", Department of French and Italian.

• Sana Malik Noon, "Muslim Women's Subjectivity : Beyond Piety and Promiscuity", Department of Anthropology.
• Samantha Wrisley, "The Affective Content of "Normal Contempt" : Misogyny as a Condition of Ambivalence", Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. 

Winner

• Rohit Chakraborty: "(Over)Bearing Desires: Reassessing hegemonic masculinity and validating female carnality in Radhika Govindrajan The Bear Who Loved a Woman"

Winner

• Brendan Moore: “Theory’s Trasvestissement”

Highly Commended Undergraduate Essay

• Suzanne Persard: “Decriminalizing Section 377: The Liberal Limits of Decolonizing Brown Queer”