{"id":564,"date":"2025-01-07T18:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians25thanniversary\/awards\/elizabeth-alexander-creative-writing-award\/previous-eacwa-award-winners-copy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:18:49","slug":"previous-paula-j-giddings-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/meridians\/awards\/paula-j-giddings-best-article-award\/previous-paula-j-giddings-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Previous Paula J. Giddings Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Yurika Tamura – “Rehumanizing Ainu: Performance of Desubjectification and a Politics of Singularity<\/a>” (Vol. 23, No. 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Umayyah Cable – “Coming Out for Community, Coming Out for the Cause: Queer Arab American Activism in the 1990s<\/a>” (Vol. 23, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chia-Hsu Jessica Chang – “De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure<\/a>” (Vol. 23, No. 2)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Zeynep K. Korkman – \u201c<\/a>(Mis)Translations of the Critiques of Anti-Muslim Racism and the Repercussions for Transnational Feminist Solidarities<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 22, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Zeynep K. Korkman here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grace L. Sanders Johnson – \u201cPicturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 22, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sandra Ruiz – \u201cA Light for a Light: Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 21, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Sandra Ruiz here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Williams – \u201cApologizing to Chavers: #Blackgirlmagic\u2019s Resilience Discourse and the Fear of Melancholy Black Femme Digital Subjectivity<\/a>\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Vol. 21, No. 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Asli Zengin – \u201cCaring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey<\/a>\u201d  (Vol. 21, No. 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rumya S. Putcha – \u201cThe Mythical Courtesan: Womanhood and Dance in Transnational India<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 20, No. 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Dr. Putcha here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Evelyn Alsultany – \u201cHow Hate Crime Laws Perpetuate Anti-Muslim Racism<\/a>\u201d  (Vol. 20, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Robert J. Patterson – \u201cBetween Protest and Politics: Black Lives Matter Movement(s) for Black Lives\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Vol. 19, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Dr. Patterson here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Leigh-Anne Francis – \u201cPlaying the \u201cLady Sambo\u201d: Poor Black Women\u2019s Legal Strategies in the Post-Civil War South\u2019s Civil Courts\u201d<\/a> (Vol. 19, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Dr. Patterson here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Maile Arvin – \u201cIndigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism\u201d<\/a> (Vol. 18, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Maile Arvin here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Abosede George -\u201cSaving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 17, No. 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Abosede George here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Miglena S. Todorova – \u201cRace and Women of Color in Socialist\/Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe<\/a>\u201d (Vol. 16, No. 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read more about Miglena S. Todorova\u2019s work here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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