PHYLLIS RACKIN PRIZE
FOR FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES

 

Call for Applications for 2008-2009

The Women’s Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality invite applications for the Phyllis Rackin Prize. The prize was created in honor of Phyllis Rackin, a pioneering feminist scholar and former faculty member in the English Department here at Penn. The prize will provide $3,000 in summer research or travel funding to a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences whose research creates or promotes new scholarship on women, gender, and/or sexuality in the humanities.

To apply, please submit a 2-page description, budget, CV, and two letters of recommendation to:

Professor Demie Kurz, Co-Director
Women’s Studies Program & the Alice Paul Center for
Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
University of Pennsylvania
411 Logan Hall/6304

Deadline: Friday, February 29, 2008