Pembroke Center 2021-22 Student Grant and Prize Recipient Presentations

On May 27, 2022, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women celebrated the recipients of undergraduate research grants and prizes for the 2021-2022 academic year. Students presented their research projects during a luncheon with members of the Pembroke Center Advisory Council, faculty advisors, presenters' family members, and other members of the Brown community.

Sabrina Bajwa ’21.5
Gender and Sexuality Studies, Hispanic Studies
Thesis: Fortifying the Boundaries of Citizenship through the Simultaneous Rhetoric of Anti-Birth and Anti-Abortion: Reproductive Injustice as a Tool of Immigration Enforcement
Joan Wallach Scott Prize

Jamila Beesley ’22 (in absentia)
American Studies, International and Public Affairs
Thesis: The Architects of the Solutions They Need: Dalit Feminism in the U.S. Caste Abolition Movement
Ruth Simmons Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies
Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant

Emma Blake ’22
International Relations
Thesis: Gender-based Violence and State-Sponsored Aggression: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence and State Militarization
Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant

Lillian Pickett ’22
American Studies
Thesis: (En)gendering Violence, Imagining Safety: Carceral Politics in Rhode Island’s Feminist Movement, 1970-2009
Honorable Mention, Ruth Simmons Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies

Sydney Smith ’22
Africana Studies, Political Science
Thesis: "I Am A Revolutionary Black Woman": Black Power Visions in the Narratives of Women in the Black Panther Party
Barbara Anton Community Research Grant

Lily Willis ’22.5
Gender and Sexuality Studies, English
Thesis: "Expressing the Inexpressible," and Other Queer Sentiments: Language and Self in Contemporary Queer Memoir
Enid Wilson Undergraduate Travel Fellowship

This event was hosted by the Pembroke Center Advisory Council.

*The Pembroke Center’s 40th Anniversary*

The 2021–22 academic year marks the 40th anniversary of the Pembroke Center. The center was founded in 1981, a decade after Pembroke College — the coordinate women’s college of Brown University — merged fully with the men’s college. As the greater community honors 130 years of women at Brown, the Pembroke Center is delighted to celebrate its history of cultivating interdisciplinary work on gender and sexuality through its research, teaching, archival and community-building programs.