Twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!

IRWGS is proud to announce the twenty-first annual Queer Studies Award and the ninth annual Women’s and Gender Studies Award!

$250 in prize money for each award!

All Columbia, Barnard, Engineering and Applied Science, and General Studies undergraduates are encouraged to submit their best work for consideration.  All disciplines and topics within the fields of “queer studies” or “women’s and gender studies” (broadly defined) are welcome.  Papers will be judged by an interdisciplinary committee of IRWGS faculty.  Students are invited to enter one or both of the competitions (but must submit a different essay for each competition).

Application deadline: Monday April 18th, 2016 by 5pm

Application packets now available on irwgs.columbia.edu/undergrad.