The Diane Middlebrook Graduate Teaching Prize
Nominations are due Monday, May 13, 2022 at 5:00 pm.
The Diane Middlebrook Graduate Teaching Prize is awarded each year to an outstanding graduate student Teaching Assistant or Teaching Fellow for their feminist pedagogy in classes on feminism, gender, and sexuality studies. The winner is honored at our annual Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies banquet.
Accepting nominations NOW! Click here to submit nomination materials!
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is very proud of the many contributions the graduate community makes to the university. We are pleased to celebrate graduate accomplishment in feminist pedagogy and to recognize the impact graduate teaching assistants and teaching fellows make in the classroom and through their mentoring of undergraduate students.
Recent Recipients
Rose Himber Howse
2023| Stegner Fellow in Fiction, for her work in the course "Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"
Henry Washington, Jr.
2022| PhD candidate in Modern Thought and Literature, for his original FGSS course "Black Feminist and Trans Theories of the Hu/Man"
Justine Modica
2021| PhD candidate in the Department of History, for her work in the course "Caring Labor in the United States"
Ruth Wurl
2020| PhD candidate in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, for her work in the course "Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"
Theresa Iker
2019| PhD candidate in the Department of History, for her extensive teaching in the Department of History, which includes her course 52S "Sex in America"
Hannah LeBlanc
2018| PhD candidate in the Department of History, for her course "Race, Science, and Medicine in U.S. History"
Annie Atura Bushnell
2017| PhD candidate in the Department of English, for her teaching and mentorship in the FGSS Honors Workshops (FEMGEN 199)
Madihah Akhter
2016| FEMGEN 101: Intro to Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Mackenzie Cooley
2015| HISTORY/FEMGEN 29S: The Animal Other: Humans and Animals in Western History
Alison Fogarty
2014| FEMGEN 140A: Destroying Dichotomies: Exploring Multiple Sex, Gender, & Sexual Identities
Ryan Tacata
2013| Hope House Scholars Program
Jakeya Caruthers
2012| FEMGEN 154: Black Feminist Theory
About Diane Middlebrook
The Middlebrook Prize honors the memory of Diane Middlebrook, a professional writer, and a former Professor of English at Stanford University. She died in 2007 of cancer.
Middlebrook was a part of Stanford’s English faculty for four decades, a leading feminist scholar, and one of the founders of Feminist Studies at Stanford. She is best known for her biographies, especially, Ann Sexton, a Biography, Her Husband, a biography of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, and Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton.
She was a founding trustee of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, an interdisciplinary arts center in the Santa Cruz Mountains. She was a member of the Panel on Biography for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize, and chaired the Non-Fiction Panel for the National…