Completion Award Winners
About Josephine Chaet (2023) Heading link
Josephine Chaet is a PhD candidate in Anthropology, with a concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies, whose “research and teaching bring together approaches from socio-cultural anthropology and critical feminist studies to bear on the study of politics, gender, and relationality, with a focus on contemporary Jordan.” Based on 18 months of fieldwork in Amman, her dissertation, “Critical Liaisons: The Politics of Women’s Organizing in Jordan,” analyzes “the (in)visible and intimate ways the women of non-governmental organizations make use of their relationships to further political goals, and how those actors carve out semi-independent domains of practice by negotiating existing structures of governmental management and through legislative transformation.” Josephine uniquely contributes “a feminist political analysis at multiple relational scales to push a recognition of women’s sociality as a distinct category structuring contemporary political reality.” This award will support Josephine in concluding her dissertation writing and subsequent dissertation defense in the 2023-2024 academic year.
About Benjamin Schaefer (2022) Heading link
I am incredibly grateful to be the recipient of this award to support and finish my dissertation research. The wealth of support that I received from the GWS department is unlike any other department since matriculating to UIC. I am honoured to receive this recognition and hope that one day I will be just as inspirational as the UIC GWS department has been for me.
About Lydia Hou (2021) Heading link
I am so grateful for this award supporting my dissertation research, I will always feel like GWS is my true home at UIC as I have made such lasting connections with this incredible feminist, anti-racist, social justice oriented community. Thank you GWS for everything you do to support and encourage all your students!
Earlier Awardees Heading link
| 2020 | Alisa Swindell |
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| 2019 | Sara Rezvi |
| 2018 | Aliza Arican |