WINNIPEG, MB – The University of Winnipeg’s Sarah Dack, a women’s and gender studies honours student, has been awarded the Canadian Women’s Studies Association/L’association canadienne des études sur les femmes (CWSA/ACEF) 2009 Undergraduate Essay Prize for her outstanding paper Dancing with Ellen: Queer moments and acceptable queer aesthetic.
The CWSA/ACEF introduced a graduate and undergraduate essay competition that is anonymously reviewed by committee. Winners receive a monetary prize and are invited to read their papers at a panel of essay prizewinners during the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dack will heading to the Congress 2009 conference at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON this May to present her essay.
“Sarah is an exceptional student,” said Fiona Green, Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, Director, Institute for Women’s & Gender Studies. ”She will be entering her last year of her Women Gender Studies Honours degree this fall, and her future plans include contributing to gender education in the public school system and working with queer and trans youth.”
The Canadian Women’s Studies Association/l’association canadienne des études sur les femmes was founded in 1982 as a Canadian-wide, bilingual association of Women’s Studies practitioners in Canada. It is composed largely of academic faculty across Canada, in addition to graduate and undergraduate students, community activists and policy researchers – but is open to everyone who supports its mission and goals. For more information or to contact the CWSA/ACEF, please contact the association President, Si Transken, at cwsa-acef@unbc.ca.
