The Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) Program is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025–26 Feminist Scholarship Grants. This program supports faculty scholarship that centers gender and women’s experiences and advances critical, intersectional analyses of social identities, including race, class, sexuality and other dimensions of identity.
Congratulations to the following awardees and projects:
- Patrice Wade-Olson, assistant professor, McAuley School of Nursing — Enhancing Trauma-Informed Practices in LGBT+ and HIV Care: A Pre- and Post-Test Study of Team-Based Training
- Kirsten Silwanowicz, adjunct professor, School of Law — Bias in the Machine: Legal Strategies for an Inclusive AI Future
- Alexa Rihana-Abdallah, professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering — How is Technical Leadership Assigned in Engineering Student Teams and How Does it Vary by Gender, Race and First-Generation Status?
- Lee Eshelman, associate professor of Psychology and director of Master of Arts Program in Clinical Psychology — Restoring Intimacy: A Qualitative Study of Consensual Sex Among Sexual Assault Survivors
Grant recipients will present their work at the WGS-sponsored colloquium during the Fall 2026 semester.