Please join MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies on May 4th for an end of semester celebration featuring recently published books by WGS affiliated faculty and lecturers and student award recipients. We look forward to closing the year together, celebrating achievements, and recognizing student work and leadership. See you there! 

This event is open to all. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP.

Refreshments will be provided.

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Awards presented:

• Helen Elaine Lee Undergraduate Prize TBD

  • Aimee Wang, WGS Minor, class of 2026

• Ruth Perry Leadership Prize

  • Mariel Garcia-Montes (PhD candidate, HASTS)

• Kampf Writing Prize

  • Abriana Lyda, Physics Major, class of 2026 - "Mother like daughter: investigation of reinforcing gender and class normatives through food practices” () and

  • Bridget Li, 21S- WGS & Course 7, class of 2027 - "Euphoria: The Feminine Toxicity in Maddie and Cassie’s Friendship”

Featured Books:

• Bettina Stoetzer

  • “Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin”

• Bruno Perreau

  • “Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence”

• Caley Horan

  • “Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America”

• Catherine D'Ignazio

  • “Data Feminism”

  • “Counting Feminicide”

• Chris Capozzola

  • “Bound by War: How the US and Philippins Built Ameria's First Pacific Century”

• Diana Henderson

  • “Shakespeare and the Digital Pedagogy”

• Djamila Ribeiro

  • “Feminism for the World”

  • “Where we Stand”

• Dwai Banerjee

  • “Enduring Cancer”

  • “Computing in The Age of Decolonization”

• Hector Beltran

  • “Code Work: Hacking Across the US / Mexico Techno-Borderlands”

• Helen Elaine Lee

  • “Pomegranate”

• Justin Steil

  • “Furthering Fair Housing: Prospects for Racial Justice in Ameria's Neighborhoods”

• Lerna Ekmekcioglu

  • “Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Genocide Turkey”

• Maia Weinstock

  • “Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus”

• Manduhai Buyandelger

  • “A Thousand Steps to Parliament: Constructing Electable Women in Mongolia”

• Mary Fuller

  • “Lines Drawn Across the Globe”

• Paloma Duong

  • “Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History”

• Ruth Perry

  • “The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs Brown of Falkland”

• Sandy Alexandre

  • “Thinghood, Ethics, and Black Material Culture”

• Stefan Helmreich

  • “A Book of Waves”