The Christine de Pizan Award Submission requirements: The Christine de Pizan Award is presented for the best paper, project, or artwork coming under the interdisciplinary umbrella of Women's Studies written or created for an academic course (this includes Directed Studies) in the Spring, Summer, and Fall of the last academic year. The course need not have had a WMST-prefix; it can be from any department on campus. Essays and other brief papers are welcome and strongly encouraged; the maximum length for an entry is 20 pages including notes. Students drawing from a thesis should trim their work to this length. Any creative works (including fiction or poetry) must be accompanied by an artist's statement that specifies how the work is conceptually grounded in women's studies. Judging criteria: Papers are read for clarity of argument, sophistication of gender-based analysis, quality of writing, and (if applicable) control of data and/or research material. Projects and artwork are judged based on quality and conceptual grounding in women's studies. Award: $150 The Harriet Tubman Award The Harriet Tubman Activism/Leadership Award is presented for outstanding contributions to women's issues on campus or in the local community. Submission requirements: a nomination letter of no more than two pages. Self nominations are permitted. a current résumé is required of all nominees. The prize committee will contact each nominee to solicit this material if not self-nominated . In addition, non-self-nominees must submit a personal statement that should provide information about the organization where the nominee worked (on campus, community, or otherwise), what was ccomplished, and specifically how this relates to women's studies/feminist theory. The deadline for this supplemental material is March 14, 5 pm. Judging criteria: Nominees are are judged based on leadership/activism work accomplished, the practical significance of this work for the campus and/or local community, and how this work is conceptually grounded in women's studies/feminist theory. Award: $150 Nota bene: the prize money is taken from faculty contributions. If you would like to help with the funding of this prize, please send Richard Dressner a check made out to the Geneseo Foundation with a notation that the money should go toward the Women's Studies Prize. 2007 Winners: Meaghan Colligan and Elizabeth Lamme (Tubman); Claire Ruswick (Pizan) 2006 Winners: Emily Craver, Amanda Olszowy 2004 Winners: Dawn Griffin, Erin Khouri