Awards
The LANG Ann Snitow Award is an award that is given every year to an undergraduate student in recognition of their work in gender and sexualities studies.
2023 – 2024
Breanna Maria Georges, Culture and Media ’24, Minors: Gender Studies and Race & Ethnicity
My name is Breanna Maria Georges, and I am a fourth-year Culture and Media major with a double minor in Gender Studies and Race & Ethnicity. My favorite classes at school have been Global Gender and Sexuality with Laura Liu, Ecofeminism and Global Justice with Esther M. Franke, and my current classes Carceral Media with Josh Scannell and Digital Feminisms with Kate Eichorn-all of which have deeply shaped me both intellectually and personally. My research has centered on my own lived experiences as a queer Middle Eastern and Indigenous woman. My proudest projects have been my journalistic writings on indigeneity, gender, colonialism, abolition, ecofeminism, and queerness, with an analytic emphasis on online communities and media.
Thank you to all my amazing professors who have and will continue to impact me through the years. Thank you to my parents and all of their sacrifices, I am so proud of being a first-generation college student thanks to you. Thank you to my beautiful best friends Meryem and Paulina, who have stuck by me through everything since we were kids. Thank you to everyone at CESJ for always advocating for me and teaching me how to advocate for others. And finally, thank you to my community of Freedom Scholars who have made these past few years so wonderful.
2022 – 2023
Beatrice Jackson, Culture and Media ’24, Minors: Gender Studies and Psychology
My name is Beatrice Jackson and I’m a junior majoring in Culture and Media and double minoring in Gender Studies and Psychology. I am hoping to be a teacher of sex education. I’m incredibly lucky to have enjoyed almost all of my courses at the new school but some of my favorites were Digital Media and Race, Digital Feminisms and History of American Education.
I’ve been a community organizer since I was 13, focusing on union activism as well as planning and facilitating teach ins for multiple communities I’ve been a part of. The past couple of months I’ve been organizing with a local group called Communiversity, we are focused on anticapitalist values, collaborative education and radical fun. In addition, I really enjoyed being a New School first year fellow last semester and learned a lot from that experience. Something I am incredibly proud of during my time here has been organizing Sexual Education Trivia in the University Center in March of this semester!
Thank you to the New School Community members who continue to inspire me, my friends who keep me silly and my family for literally everything ever.
2021 – 2022
Zoey Greenwald,
Literary Studies ’22
My name is Zoey Greenwald and I’m a poet living in Brooklyn, NY. I’m in the last year of my Literary Studies degree at Lang and the first year of my Liberal Studies degree at Social Research. In my time at Lang I’ve had the privilege to study under queer poets Miller Oberman and Jackie Wang, the former of whom introduced me to the work of those artists and writers I can’t ever see living without, and the latter of whom inspired one of the projects I’m most proud of — a true-to-form Punk Grrrl zine, “GIRL AND FIGHTER”, that would prove to me my own ability and reach as a writer.
Reflecting also on what I’ve learned from masterful poets Jennifer Firestone and Wendy Xu, I’m reminded that Eugene Lang is a very special place. To trust another person with the development of one’s poetics is to be placed in an incredibly vulnerable position, and I am beyond lucky to have found a community of such smart, caring people engaging so beautifully and honestly in queer-feminist poetics.
Thank you all! xo
Thank you!
Mckenzie Wark
Jennifer Firestone
Jackie Wang
Wendy Xu
Miller Oberman
Sul Mousavi
2020 – 2021
Diana Edelman
For the Academic year of 2020-2021, the directors of Gender Studies at the New School in consultation with the Gender Studies Faculty have chosen Diana Edelman as recipient of the LANG Ann Snitow Award.
My name is Diana Edelman. I am a fourth year Literary Studies major, with an emphasis in Playwriting, and a minor in Philosophy. My favorite courses at the New School have been Melodrama in the Arts with Elana Greenfield, Theories of Subjectivity with Daniel Rodriguez-Navas, and Theater of Cruelty with Rose Rejois – all genius professors. Rose Rejois encourages creative projects, and with her I have been able to create several video projects, including a video manifesto inspired by Antonin Artaud. This Third Manifesto of Cruelty attempts to expose the trappings of identity as categories, established by society, for what they are – absurd – and is based on the idea that no one can be free until we all are.
2019 – 2020
Delia Rogers, 2019-2020
My name is Delia Rogers, I am a third year at Lang studying Global Studies and Gender Studies. I think that my favorite class has been Ecofeminism and Global Justice with Abigail Perez Aguilera, she is an amazing professor and her classes are all so so wonderful. In her class, I completed a project on collective memory which looked at the lives of midwives and examined the marginalization of midwifery practices within medicine in the United States using an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, ecofeminist framework.
Read “The Dyer’s Hand” by Ann Snitow
Read “Sex for Fun: Reflections from Ann Snitow’s Przegorzały Classroom”
Awards given to GSSI Faculty
- Claire Potter
Audre Lorde article prize by the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (American Historical Association affiliate society), 2007-08. - Francesca Granata
Coby Foundation Grant for the completion of “Otherworldly: Performance, Costume and Difference”. - Katayoun Chamany
John A. Moore Award For Science as a Way of Knowing.
2019 New School Award for Outstanding Achievements in Social Justice Teaching. - McKenzie Wark
Thoma Foundation Prize, winner of the Digital Arts Writing category, 2019. - Stefania de Kenessey
(Music) “Menstrual Rosary,” libretto by Chiara Bottici and Vanessa Place, directed by Cecilia Rubino, videography by Anomie Williams.- Merit Award: Experimental Category, 2022 Winter LGBTQ Unbordered Film Festival
- Nominee: Milan Arthouse Film Festival; Portland New Alternative Voices Film Festival
- Semi-Finalist Awards: London Indie Short Festival; Madrid Arthouse Film Festival; Palm Springs Shorts, Paris International Short Festival; Paris Women’s Festival of Ontario; Rio de Janeiro World Film Festival; Rotterdam Independent FIlm Festival; San Francisco Indie Short Festival