Catt Center funds seven research projects
Seven research projects recently received funding through the 2014 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics.
A selection committee of 12 Iowa State University faculty members blind-reviewed 60 proposals submitted by 81 researchers from 28 states and nine countries. The committee chose three projects as winners of the Catt Prize and four projects for honorable mention awards.
Among the honorable mention awards is a research project by Noaquia Callahan, doctoral candidate in history at the University of Iowa. Her study, “Divided Duty: African American Feminist Transnational Activism and the Lure of the Imperial Gaze, 1888-1922,” will examine how African-American women used international women’s organizations to challenge racism, sexism and imperial feminism through an examination of the career of Mary Church Terrell. Her award will be used to travel to the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Boulder, Colo.
Each of the winning prize proposals will receive $1,500. Honorable mention awards will receive $750 each.
To see the full list of winners, click here.