Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research
on Women and Politics
The 2007 Catt Prize winners are:
$1000 prize winners:
Karen Kedrowski, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, for "Gender and the Public Speakership: News Media Coverage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi."
Candice Ortbals, assistant professor of political science, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, and Meg Rincker, visiting assistant professor of political science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, for "Decentralization and Women’s Policy Agencies: Relocating Feminist Policy in Spain, Chile, Poland and Pakistan."
$500 honorable mention:
Nicole Eaton, doctoral student in history at Brown University, Providence, RI, for "Women’s History and Women’s Rights: Gender and Collective Memory in American Feminism, 1948-1998."
Carly Woods, doctoral teaching fellow in communication and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, for "Women’s Debating Societies as Argumentative Laboratories for Political Activism: The Cases of Lucy Stone and Genevieve Blatt."
The 2006 Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize recipients are:
$1000 prize winners:
Pamela Paxton, associate professor of sociology and political
science at The Ohio State University, for "How Women Attain Political
Power: Understanding Women's Representation in Parliaments, 1893-2003."
Aili Mari Tripp, associate dean of international students and professor
of political science and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison,
for "Women and Peacemaking in Africa: When, Why and How Gender Matters."
$500 honorable mention:
Jenny Barker-Devine, Ph.D. candidate in history at Iowa State University,
for "'Our Cherished Ideals': Rural Women, Activism, and Identity in
the Midwest, 1950-1990."
Petra Hejnova, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Syracuse
University, for "Free (Not) to Organize: Uncovering Effects of State
Policies on Women's Activism in the Czech Republic and Chile."
The 2005 Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize recipients are:
Karrin Anderson, assistant professor of speech communication
at Colorado State University and Kristina Sheeler, assistant professor of
communication studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, for "Woman
President: Gender, Rhetorical Leadership, and the U.S. Presidency."
Phylllis Brashler, department of sociology and anthropology
at Northeastern University, for "Flirting with Feminism: The State
and Battered Women's Movement in Massachusetts."
Miki Kittilson, assistant professor of political science
at Arizona State University, for "Women, Elected Office, and Policy
Choices in Cross-National Perspective, 1960-2005."
Lester Olson, professor of communication and women's studies
at the University of Pittsburgh, for "Audre Lorde's Public Speeches:
Poet Orator, Wounded Warrior."
Diana Santillan, graduate student in anthropology and human
sciences and lecturer in women's studies at George Washington University,
for "Local-Global Negotiations: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Women's
Organization in the Peruvian Amazon."
The 2004 Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize recipients are:
Kathleen A. Bratton, assistant professor of political
science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and Michelle Barnello,
assistant professor of political science at Christopher Newport University,
for "Bridging the Gender Gap: The Representation of "Women's Interests"
in State Legislatures."
Kathleen Laughlin, professor and chair of the department
of history at Metropolitan State University, for "Citizen Clubwoman:
The Politics and Culture of Women's Clubs in Postwar America."
Patricia Melzer, assistant professor and director of women's
studies at Temple University, for "Terroristenmadchen": Women
in Radical Left Political Groups in Germany and the U.S. in the 1970s."
Catherine Rymph, assistant professor of history at the
University of Missouri, for "As Women Go, The Country Goes: American
Women, Gender, and Nation Building after WWII."
The 2003 Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize recipients are:
LeAnn Banaszak, associate professor of political science
and women's studies at Pennsylvania State University, for "In and out
of State: Feminists in the Federal Bureaucracy and their Effect on the Women's
Movement."
Douglas Schrock, assistant professor of sociology and
Sammy Rastagh, graduate student in Sociology, Florida State University,
for "Gender Dynamics in the Global Justice Movement."
Aparna Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in political science at
Western Michigan State, for "Women's Participation in the Panchayati
Raj: A Case Study of Maharashtra, India."
Gina Serignese Woodall, Ph.D. candidate in political science
at Arizona State, for "Playing Hardball in a Dress?: Gender Differences
in the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigns"
Mary Saracino Zboray, independent scholar and Ronald Zboray,
director of graduate studeis and associate professor of communication and
histor, University of Pittsburgh, for "Voices Without Votes: Women's
Political Consciousness and Partisan Engagement in Antebellum New England."
The 2002 Carrie Chapman Catt Research Prize recipients are:
Karen K. Garner, director of the Women's Center and adjunct
professor of history at Florida International University in Coral Gables,
for "Women and Global Leadership: Theory and Practice in the World
YWCA, 1914-2000."
Kimberley Manning, Ph.D. student in political science
at the University of Washington in Seattle, for "Sexual Equality and
State-Building Gender Conflict in the Great Leap Forward."
Corrine M. McConnaughy, Ph.D. candidate in political science
at the University of Michigan, for "Activists, Institutions, and Organizations:
Retelling the Story of Suffrage Rights Extension in a Federal System."
Lisa Baldez, assistant professor and Harbison faculty
fellow in political science at Washington University in St. Louis, for "Elected
Bodies: Gender Quota Laws for Legislative Candidates."
Maurice Hamington, philosophy instructor at Lane Community
College in Eugene, OR, for "Sympathetic Knowledge: The Ethics and Politics
of Jane Addams."
The 2001 Catt Prize recipients are:
Ada Cheng, assistant professor, Department of Sociology,
DePaul University, for "Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina
Domestics and the Politics of Nationhood in Taiwan."
Richard L. Fox, assistant professor, Department of Political
Science, Union College, and Jennifer Lawless, Ph.D. candidate in political
science, Stanford University, for "Gender, Political Ambition, and
the Decision to Run for Elective Office."
Jerry L. Miller, assistant professor and director of forensics,
School of Interpersonal Communication, Ohio University, and Ann Gordon,
assistant professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio University, for
"When Stereotypes Collide: Race, Gender, and Congressional Campaigns."
Leslie Petty, Ph.D. candidate in English, University of
Georgia, for "Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction,
1870-1920."
Katherine Mellen Charron, Ph.D. candidate in history,
Yale University, for "'What You Have in Your Mind and Heart to Do':
Septima Clark, Radical Education, and the African American Freedom Struggle."
The 2000 Catt Prize recipients:
Nancy E. Crowe, Dartmouth College, for "The Effects
of Race and Sex on Decision Making on the U.S. Court of Appeals."
Lynda Lee Kaid, University of Florida, and Mary Banwart,
University of Oklahoma, for "Webstyle: Comparison of Gender Differences
in Candidate Presentation on the Internet."
Carol Lomicky, University of Nebraska-Kearney, for "Political
Ideology in The Woman's Tribune: The Journalism of Clara Bewick Colby."
Deana Rohlinger, graduate student in sociology, University
of California-Irvine, for "Formal Social Movement Organizations and
Media Frames: Examining the Influence of the National Organization for Women
and Concerned Women for America on Mass Media in the Abortion Debate."
The 1999 Catt Prize recipients:
Kim Fridkin Kahn, Arizona State University, for "How
Men and Women Govern: Gender Differences in the Goals and Effectiveness
of U.S. Senators."
Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame, and J.
Kevin Corder, Western Michigan University, for "Women's Voting Behavior
in the 1920s and Early 1930s."
Karen Kampwirth, Knox College, for "Feminism and
Guerrilla Politics in Latin America."
The 1998 Catt Prize recipients:
Holly McCammon and Karen Campbell, Vanderbilt University,
for "How Women Won the Vote: The Political Successes of State Suffrage
Movements, 1866-1920."
Margaret Trevor, University of Iowa, for "Party Identification,
Socialization, and the Gender Gap."
The 1997 Catt Prize recipients:
Kathleen Dolan, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, for "Determinants
of Support for Women Candidates for Congress in the 1990s."
