Barbara Rosenblum Dissertation Scholarship
Deadline: April 1 of calendar year
About Barbara Rosenblum
Barbara Rosenblum made significant sociological contributions to the understanding of women and cancer before her passing from breast cancer in 1988. She and her partner, Sandra Butler, wrote, Cancer in Two Voices, published in 1991 to mark the most of their remaining years together. This text is noteworthy for the way in which the diary entries center the social, emotional, and physical impacts that breast cancer had on their lives.
Overview
The purpose of the scholarship is to encourage doctoral research in sociology, anthropology, psychology, and related fields on women’s experience of breast and other reproductive cancers and the prevention of these cancers in honor of Barbara Rosenblum. Another goal is to encourage scholars to make this type of research accessible to the public through speaking and publishing for general audiences.
About Eligibility, Award, and Proposal
Applicants must be SWS members and may apply for membership at the time of submission. If you are new to SWS, please become a member first.
The awardee receives $2,500, an award certificate, and a $500 travel stipend to attend the annual SWS Winter Conference where the awardee will be honored.
The dissertation candidate must have a feminist orientation and be sensitive to studying reproductive cancers and their impact on diverse groups of women, including those of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, language, religion, geographical areas, and other cultural perspectives.
The candidate must have an approved prospectus for doctoral research at the time of award submission. The scholarship prefers to support social scientists or researchers who plan to present their findings and applications to general audiences. The topic should be useful academically and also have pragmatic and practical applications such as informing and empowering women, demystifying the disease, and/or having implications for the breast cancer epidemic more broadly.
SWS member applicants nearing completion of their doctoral research at the time of submission should prepare an application that includes:
- A Curriculum Vitae
- A 15-page dissertation proposal or prospectus.
- Note that applicants should not send more than 15 pages of the dissertation proposal or prospectus. Applicants should select excerpts of their dissertation proposal which most clearly describe the project, define the subjects, and identify the methods.
- A brief one-page statement describing the research’s major findings.
All proposals are submitted via the Member Portal requiring login. The Member Portal typically starts accepting applications in January.
Click HERE to see previous award recipients.
Please reach out to the SWS Executive Office if you have any questions (contact@socwomen.org).