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Kathleen A. Herman Prize in Gender Studies was established by friends, colleagues and former students to honour Kathleen Herman for her wisdom, determination, perseverance in advancing the status of women at Queen's.

Previous winners

2024–25: Carson McNeice “The First Femme Smiles: Creativity as Resistance in Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir”, submitted to Professor Jane Tolmie in GNDS 335

2023–24: Allison Mei, submitted to Kharoll-Ann Souffrant in BLCK/GNDS 280

2022–23: Hemeng Xue “Beautiful in a Han-gemonic Way: The Project Beauty and China’s Religious Erasure through the Ban on Islamic Veiling”, submitted to Professor burcu baba in GNDS 401

2021–22: Piera Raffoul, submitted to Professor Elizabeth Brulé in GNDS 280

2020-21: Dallas Cochran “Black Internationalism”, submitted to Professor Yolande Bouka in POLS 443

2019-20: Dylyn Reid-Davies “Postcards from Nowhere”, submitted to Professor Trish Salah in GNDS 370

2018-19: Samuel Maclennan “Queering Mary in Christian Feminist Theological Literature”, submitted to Professor Tracy Trothen in RELS 312

2017-18: Kennedy MacMaster “Clitoraid: Yes, it is as bad as it sounds”, submitted to Professor Yasmine Djerbal in GNDS 330

2016-17: Jacob Schroeter “The Masculine, Heterosexual, and White U.S. Military Regime: Online Discourse and the Media’s Reaction to the Abu Ghraib Scandal”, submitted to Professor Melissa Houghtaling in GNDS 215.

2015-16: Meghan Rand “Beyond Bad Blood: How Black Gay Men Remain Stigmatized by United States Blood Donation Policies”, submitted to Professor Melissa Houghtaling in GNDS 215.

2014-15: Annalise Chapman “Queering Ferguson, An Analysis of Transformative Justice and Alliance Work in Ferguson Protest Movements”, submitted to Professor Cameron Greensmith in GNDS 280.

2013-14: Amanda Kraft “Teaching Normalcy: Exercises of Power, Constructions of National Identity, and the Emergence of Sex Education in Ontario, 1871-1950”, submitted to Professor Brittney Bos in HIST 465.

2012-13: Sean Jackson “Female Genital Mutilation or Genital Cosmetic Surgery: Is There a Difference?”, submitted to Professor Chowdhury in GNDS 401.

2011-12: Shawn Tripp “Haiti on the Periphery: Representational and Material Inequality in the Production of HIV/AIDS Discourse in Haiti 1975-85”, submitted to Healy Thompson in GNDS 320.

2010-11: Brittany Whalen “Racism at Queen’s: How effective is a ‘Gender Studies’ education in reducing racial prejudice?”, submitted to Professor Margaret Little in GNDS 345.

2009-10: Lauren Horwood “A Badass Black Femme: Negotiating Desire, (Dis)Identity and Performance in Etang Inyang’s Badass Supermama”, submitted to Professor Katherine McKittrick in WMNS 412.

2008-09: Ariella Gross-Grand “SOUL FOOD: A Critical (Self) Reflection”, submitted to Professor Sarita Srivastava in WMNS 440.

2007-08: Laura Levick “Identity Crisis: The Evolving Relationship Between Feminine and Nationalist Identities in Quebec and France”, POLS 382.

2006-07: Natalie Gorska “Hegemonic Masculinity: Not the Norm”, POLS 382.

2005-06: Beth Ferguson “Native Identity: Geographies of (Un)Belonging”, WMNS 432.

2004-05: Elisa Wynne-Hughes “The Reincarnation of the Oral Tradition”, WMNS 432.

2003-04: Deborah Aarts “The Politics of Femininity: Propoganda, Representation and the Gendered Political Body in the Militant Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1903-1914”, HIST 465.

2002-03: Adrienne Boudreau “Maquila Work: Gender on the Line”, WMNS 330.

2001-02: Rowan Weaver “The Slave Narrative as Historical Autobiography: Writing the Racialized and Gendered “Self” in Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself”, IDIS 302.

2001-02: Kirsten Leng “The Body as a Battlefield: Rape as a Weapon of War During the Bosnia-Herzegovina Conflict”, WMNS 330.

2000-01: Michelle Teixeira “Towards Reconciliation: Reframing the Sadomasochism Debate in Feminism”, WMNS-310.

1999-2000: Sarah Beemer “Sexual Abuse: A Personal Experience and The Sheldon Kennedy Case”, WMNS 100.

1999-2000: Tracey Taylor “The Love Letters of Frieda and Bud”, HIST 465.