USF Women’s Studies faculty have been recognized as outstanding teachers, awarded external and internal funding opportunities,
and gained national acclaim for their research.

Carolyn DiPalma, Ph.D. won the USF Alumni Association Ambassadors Teaching Recognition Award, a USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and entrance to the competitive National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on “Medicine, Literature, Culture,” at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Carolyn Eichner, Ph.D. was awarded entrance to the competitive National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar for Research on Women and Gender on “Motherhood and the Nation-State in Western Societies: Modern Times,” at Stanford University and won the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award for the best dissertation involving issues of women and gender from the Center for the Study of Women, UCLA. This research is the basis for her book, Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Gurleen Grewal Ph.D. twice won Outstanding Teacher awards from USF and was awarded the 2000 book award from the Toni Morrison Society for her research Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison, Louisiana State University Press.

Marilyn Myerson, Ph.D. has served as a Grant proposal Reviewer for NSF and as a Program Reviewer for the three Women’s Studies Programs: Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.

Kim Vaz, Ph.D. has been the recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship, and a Women of Color Psychologies Award for a significant contribution to the study of Women of Color from the Association for Women in Psychology for her paper “Racial Aliteracy: White Appropriation of Black Presences” which was published in Women & Therapy.