Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship Announcement

Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship Announcement

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The Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship is designed to recognize an exceptional graduate student in the field of gender and crime.  The scholarship is funded by the royalties from Feminist Criminology, an innovative journal that is dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. Published five times per year by SAGE Publications as the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime (DWC) of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.

The DWC will award one graduate student annually a one-time scholarship in the amount of US $5,000 to support a project involving original research. One or more $500 honorable mentions may also be awarded. The student must be the leader or principal investigator on the project.

Budget items that will be supported include, but are not limited to, data collection, data purchases, hardware/software purchases, travel (e.g., to archives or for other data collection purposes, to professional development workshops or conferences, etc.), bibliographical materials, office supplies, and/or salary support/research assistance salary. No indirect costs, please.

The award will be given based on the following criteria:

  1. originality of the proposed project
  2. potential of the project to inform gender and crime research, theory, or practice
  3. feasibility of the proposed project, including the budget and timeline for completion        

Am I Eligible to Apply?

In order to be eligible to apply, a graduate student must be:

  1. currently enrolled (full or part time) in an accredited masters or doctoral program (this includes law school),
  2. in good academic standing,
  3. leader or principal investigator on the project,
  4. engaged in a project on a topic relevant to gender and crime 
  5. if not already a student member of the Division on Women and Crime (DWC), it is expected that the recipient will join the Division upon receipt of the award.  (In order to join the DWC, the recipient needs to be a member of the ASC).  

How Can I Apply?

To apply, please submit the following materials in English as one PDF document no later than May 1, 2021 to: Feminist Criminology/Siegel Awards Committee at Femcrimasc@gmail.com  

  1. description of proposed project (with a cover page), including the following sections:
    1. purpose of project (e.g., statement of problem/issue), 
    2. background (e.g., literature review, need for project),
    3. goals/objectives (e.g., what will be accomplished, potential limitations of project),
    4. implementation plan, including methodology if research focused, and 
    5. deliverables (e.g., dissertation, presentation, article, etc. which may be in any language),
  2. proposed budget in USD, justification for budget items, and project timeline, 
  3. current curriculum vitae,
  4. transcript from current institution or other official documentation of academic standing if outside of the USA (need not be in English)
  5. letter of nomination from at least one permanent, full-time faculty member at the student’s current institution.

Application materials should appear in the following order in the PDF document:  

  1. proposal (description and budget)
  2. CV
  3. Transcript
  4. Letter

Please title your combined document “FC_Lastname_Firstname_Application.pdf”.  

Items #1 – #2 must total no more than ten (10) double-spaced pages, not including cover page and references.

Winners will be notified in June 2021, and will be expected to submit a one-page annual activity statement in English, no later than November 1st each year until the project is completed.

Any presentations, papers, or printed materials that result from this award must include the following text: “This project was supported by the Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship.”

Clarification of Differences in Criteria for the Siegel Fellowship for the Study of Gender and Crime and the Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship Awards:

Scholars may apply for both awards, but will not be able to win both.  Please submit separate applications and note the criteria for each award carefully.  The Siegel Graduate Fellowship accommodates research along with program or service development, implementation, and/or evaluation, or advocacy, whereas the Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship accommodates research exclusively.  The Siegel Graduate Fellowship is only for US applicants, whereas the Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship is for applicants based within and outside the USA.  The Siegel Fellowship allows for US-based as well as cross-national research with the United States included in a comparative context.  The Feminist Criminology Graduate Research Scholarship accommodates all forms of international research as well as US-based research.

News from Executive Board

DWC Executive Board Statement on Inclusivity

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DWC Executive Board Statement on Inclusivity (3/8/2021)

The Executive Board of the Division of Women and Crime (DWC) denounces all oppressions
(including, but not limited to racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism and ableism),
oppressive language, behavior, or publications that perpetuate and/or uphold structural
inequalities. We disavow discrimination based on disability, socioeconomic status, sexuality,
age, education, race/ethnicity, nationality, citizenship status, religious affiliation or gender
identity or expression. The Executive Board aspires for the DWC to be an intersectional and
antiracist feminist space. We acknowledge that we are not there yet and achieving this goal will
require sustained resources, time commitments, and critical reflection to move toward a more
inclusive, intersectional feminist organization. As a starting point, we want to use this
statement to acknowledge and address the problems of racism, cisgenderism, transphobia, and
heterosexism as central concerns raised by membership.


First, the Executive Board of the DWC affirms the ongoing need for equity, inclusion and racial
justice within the Division and, more broadly, the ASC. The Executive Board commits to ongoing
and sustained conversations among a diversity of BIPOC, Queer and Trans scholars. It is
important to both listen to these scholars and ensure they are part of the decision-making
structures that can affect the necessary changes. While there have been some steps in the
right direction, there remains a need for deeper engagement across the DWC membership that
is inclusive of a more diverse set of voices and experiences. For example, there has been a lack
of meaningful representation of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ scholars in positions of leadership. We
are committed to pushing beyond conventional diversity and inclusion efforts that have yet to
produce the scale of change needed to truly uproot the white supremacy, white nationalism,
racism, heterosexism, and transphobia woven into academia and into our own history as a
Division, so we may achieve social justice in the DWC.


Further, we are a trans-inclusive organization, and the Executive Board acknowledges and
condemns discrimination and microaggressions against trans and non-binary individuals in all
domains. Succinctly, trans women are women, and trans women’s rights are human rights. We
reject any writings whose argument or foundation claims that trans women are not women and
should not have equal human rights.

The Executive Board is committed to making the changes necessary to achieve an inclusive
existence. To this end, the Executive Board has begun the following activities:

  • Reconvene the Constitutional Revision Committee with the task of ensuring inclusivity in the structure of the DWC, including in all Committees
  • Ensure that leadership positions have a balance of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ members
  • Task the Diversity & Inclusion Committee with oversight of inclusivity in representation of the Executive Board and Committee composition and mandate
  • Ensure transparency of all work of the Executive Board and review the scope of the DWC Chair to make unilateral decisions
  • Create a Feminist Criminology Editorial Board Committee tasked with recommending policies and procedures regarding the selection of an inclusive Editorial Board for our journal (this is the contractual responsibility of the DWC as Sponsor)
  • Ensure that all DWC members have a voice by creating outlets such as Town Halls and Casual Conversations
  • Ask that each Executive Board release a statement of inclusivity to the membership at the start of each Chair term along with their proposed activities

We invite the Division membership to meaningfully engage with the Executive Board by
participating in a public Town Hall on (Date TBA) hosted by the DWC where we hope to discuss
additional concrete steps that will be taken by the Division to acknowledge and redress racism,
cisgenderism and trans-exclusivity in our organization. We are also committed to increased
transparency between the Executive Board and the DWC membership. We view the Town Hall
as an opportunity for us to listen to the concerns of the members and solicit additional
suggestions for how we can improve

Call for Nominations for Election

Call for Nominations for Upcoming Election

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Hello DWC members,

We are now calling for members to nominate others or themselves for election in the forthcoming year. These are two-year posts and include:

–        Vice-Chair

–        Secretary/Treasurer

–        Senior EC (tenured)

–        Junior EC (not tenured)

We do not limit the number who can stand for each office, but you must have been a member of DWC with paid-up dues in April 2020 to do so.

The DWC earnestly seeks to address structural barriers to addressing racial justice within a feminist criminological perspective and to executing change within our organization. Therefore, we are particularly inviting members committed to addressing these goals to pursue these positions. We strongly invite scholars with academic and personal commitments to community engagement and racial justice to stand and would ask those standing to explicitly address both of those areas in their personal profile.

Please send nominations to me at Koon-Magnin@southalabama.edu by next Monday, November 23, including the nominee’s name, email address, and position for which you are nominating the individual.  Self-nominations are welcome.