2025 Feminist Formations and NWSA Paper Award (NWSA Membership is required)

Deadline -- June 1, 2025

The Feminist Formations & NWSA Paper Award is now open!

The Feminist Formations - National Women’s Studies Association Paper Award selects one winner whose work is be published in Feminist Formations and who will also receive a cash award of $500. The competition is open to scholars at all ranks, including independent scholars and artists. Multiple modes of knowledge production will be considered, including but not limited to traditional scholarly articles, essays, poetry, and visual imagery. We are particularly interested in work that contributes to Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; trans feminist studies; critical disability studies; and transnational feminisms. We also seek work that contributes to the journal’s mission to support “robust interdisciplinary, intersectional, and transnational feminist scholarship that can inspire incisive and politically meaningful analyses and action.”

Applicants must be current NWSA members. We cannot consider submissions that have been previously published or are currently being reviewed by other journals.

Please submit your manuscript through the Feminist Formations Submittable.

Feminist Formations is housed in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Oregon State University, and published three times a year by the John Hopkins University Press. For more information, visit www.feministformations.org.

The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), established in 1977, is a professional organization dedicated to leading the field of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. For more information, visit www.nwsa.org.

Please join us in celebrating last year's winners!

The 2024 Feminist Formations and NWSA Paper Award winners:

"Counter-Reproductive Memory: Chinese Young Women Against State Pronatalism" written by Jingxue Zhang. Jingxue Zhang is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests encompass gender and migration, affective labor, and the politics of reproduction on a global scale.

"Bananas and (Wo)men: Communist Schoolteachers, Socialist Feminism, and the Making of Costa Rica's First Communist Party" written by Dr. Jennifer A. Cárcamo. Dr. Jennifer A. Cárcamo is a University of California President’s and Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Irvine in the Chicano/Latino Studies Department.