Congratulations to our 2025 ISSG Prize Winners and Honorable Mention Recipients:
Queer Studies Awards
Mira Mason, co-winner of the 30th annual ISSG Queer Studies Award for their winning essay, "N. H. Pritchard And a Trans Method of Reading."
Nico Wright, co-winner of the 30th annual ISSG Queer Studies Award for their winning essay, "The Temporal Politics of Solidarity: A Becoming Beyond the University."
Women's and Gender Studies Awards
Lucia Cao, co-winner of the 17th annual ISSG Women's and Gender Studies Award for their winning essay, "Use of the Form: Cultural Revolution and the (De)Sexualization of the Female Body."
Mira Mason, co-winner of the 17th annual ISSG Women's and Gender Studies Award for their winning essay, "Reading for Trans Women in Zadie Smith."
Annika Slingerland, honorable mention for their essay, "Resist With Care: the Complexity of Masculinity in Men's Prisons."
Caroline Mendoza, honorable mention for their essay, "From La Malinche to La Zona: Overlapping contempt for La Malinche with modern stigmas against Reynosa sex workers."
Feminist to the Core Award
Tressel James Holton, winner of the 8th annual ISSG Feminist to the Core Essay Award for their winning essay, "Erecting Empires: Sexual Conquest in the Works of Montaigne and Silko."
