Completion Award
Introduction
The Gender and Women's Studies Completion Award is intended to support GWS graduate student concentrators in their final year or two of study with completing their graduate degree. The GWS Completion Award winner will receive a $1000 finishing award to help you with your research. If GWS is granted a tuition waiver, the GWS Completion Award winner will also receive a tuition waiver for the 2025-2026 academic year. The tuition waiver is dependent upon College approval. Unfortunately, the tuition waiver is not guaranteed for 2025-2026.
To apply, we ask that you be in your last year (or 2) of study, be an existing GWS grad concentrator who has taken both core courses (GWS 501 and 502) and not have funding that includes a tuition waiver or have been offered a tuition waiver already.
First priority will go to GWS Grad Concentrators who are doctoral students, but all GWS Grad Concentrators are encouraged to apply!
Award Applications Information
Award applications generally open each spring. Please check back here for the 2025-2026 application link and detailed information.
GWS Completion Award Winner 2025
Ritu Ghosh is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology with a graduate concentration in Gender and Women’s Studies. Ritu’s doctoral research focuses on reproductive labor markets, law and India’s contemporary surrogacy industry. She has presented her research at several academic conferences, including at the Research in Progress Forum at the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health at the University of Sussex. Ritu’s most recent essay, “Secret Resistance in Reproductive Labor: Surrogacy in Contemporary India,” explores the relationship between the state, the neoliberal biomedical economy, reproductive labor rights and women’s resistance in India. The GWS faculty recognize, honor, and celebrate her crucial contributions to reproductive justice and global feminist studies.