Congratulations to the 2022 WGS Essay Contest Winners!

MARIA PULZETTI AND JESSE GILLIAM AWARD
for the best undergraduate essay focused on women, gender, and/or sexuality written during the 2021-2022 academic year

WINNER: Erin Cary
WGS and Media Studies Major, Graduated December 2021

Essay Title: Sexual Machine and Smiling Servant: Constructions of Black Labor in South Florida, 1890-1920

ZORA NEALE HURSTON AWARD
for the best graduate essay focused on women, gender, and/or sexuality written during the 2021-2022 academic year

WINNER: Daniel Sunshine
History Major, Graduating Summer 2022

Essay Title: The Human Sacrifice: The Trial of Lucy Bagby and the Secession Crisis

HONORABLE MENTION: Cleo Boyd
History Major, Graduating Spring 2025

Essay Title: Beyond the Podium Protest: Race, Gender, and the Political Significance of Sport and Pleasure at the 1968 Olympics