Hang My Tran

The Pembroke Center is pleased to announce that Hang My Tran is the winner of 2019 Joan Wallach Scott Prize for her thesis, "everyone walks around with their head tilted down to the flowers."

Alex Burnett
The Pembroke Center is pleased to announce that Alex Burnet has won the 2019 Ruth Simmons Prize in Gender and Women’s Studies. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding honors thesis on questions having to do with women or gender. 

To a More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor

Shamara AlhassanThe Pembroke Center is delighted to announce that Shamara Alhassan has won the 2019 Marie J. Langlois Dissertation Prize for an outstanding dissertation in an area of feminist studies.

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The Pembroke Center annually awards three prizes for outstanding theses and dissertations. Nominations for the Langlois and Simmons prizes are due at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, April 23rd. Prizes awarded are:

• Ruth J. Simmons Prize (undergraduate honors thesis from any department on questions having to do with women or gender )
• Joan Wallach Scott Prize (undergraduate honors thesis in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
• Marie J. Langlois Prize (graduate student dissertation from any field on questions related to feminist studies)

Nomination requirements for the Langlois and Simmons prizes may be found here.

Staff and students at work in the Pembroke Center ArchivesLearn about the work of Mary Murphy, the Nancy L. Buc '65 Pembroke Center Archivist,  and how the collaboration between the Pembroke Center and the John Hay Library provides an easy connection to the Pembroke Center Archives, a treasure trove of documents, interviews and photos by and about women.