Congratulations to our 2026 ISSG Prize Winners:
Queer Studies Awards
Ruby Yiqi Wang, co-winner of the 31st annual ISSG Queer Studies Award for their winning essay, "From Hong's Silence: Foreclosure and Queer Liberation in Contemporary China."
Sage Friedman, co-winner of the 31st annual ISSG Queer Studies Award for their winning essay, "A Butch Body of Work: Peggy Shaw and the Politics of Performance."
Women's and Gender Studies Award
Xingxing Hu, winner of the 18th annual ISSG Women's and Gender Studies Award for their winning essay, "The Managed Heart Across Borders: Affective Labor in US-China Livestreaming."
Feminist to the Core Award
Nicolle Riley, winner of the 9th annual ISSG Feminist to the Core Essay Award for their winning essay, "Power and Pleasure: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the Limits of Sex-Based Activism."
Eli Trokenheim, winner of the 9th annual ISSG Feminist to the Core Essay Award for their winning essay, "Signifying Gender: MoMA’s Marcel Duchamp Retrospective."
