Faculty Research Award

The Department of Women & Gender Studies is pleased to congratulate Dr. Ann V.Bell, the recipient of the 2018 Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award, for her proposal "A Neglected Disparity: Race, Class, Gender, and the Lived Experience of Abortion." On October 22, 2019 (location TBA) , Dr. Bell, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware, will present research exploring the disconnect between statistics and women's lived experiences of abortion, asking how does the social construction of abortion and its embedded stereotypes influence how women understand and experience abortion? Furthermore, importantly, how does one's life circumstances, including race, class, and gender, shape such an experience?

For further information, please contact Deborah Arnold.

The Department of Women & Gender Studies' Women's Studies Faculty Research Award, funded by the Mae and Robert Carter Endowment in Women's Studies, is open to full-time University of Delaware faculty and provides up to $5,000.00 to support research on women. All award recipients are expected to present the results of their research in a public lecture at the University of Delaware, sponsored by the Department of Women & Gender Studies. The deadline for submissions, which are reviewed by members of the Executive Committee of the Department of Women & Gender Studies, is June 1st of each year, for the award's research period beginning that September 1 through May 31 of the following year.

The 2017 recipient of the Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award was Dr. Mieke Eeckhaut, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware.  The award supported Dr. Eeckhaut's research to investigate the association between economic conditiions and long-acting contraceptive methods such as female sterilization, intrauterine devices, and implants during the Great Recession of 2007-2009.  On November 1, 2018, Dr. Eeckhaut presented her research "Women's Sterilization and Contraception During the Great Recession, " as the Women & Gender Studies' Fall Lecture Series in the Trabant University Center Theater.

The 2016 recipient of the Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award Program was Dr. Rachael Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Delaware, who presented "The Representation of Women in Japanese War-Themed Video Games."  Dr. Hutchinson’s research focused on the representation of women in Japanese war-themed videogames, specifically the highly popular online card game Kantai Collection.

The 2015 Mae and Robert Carter Endowment Women’s Studies Faculty Research Award recipient was Dr. Amanda Bullough, Assistant Professor of Management in the Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware, for "Women Entrepreneurs: Resilience and Reducing Fear through Business Ownership." Building on her previous research in countries like Afghanistan, Dr. Bullough presented her newest data on women entrepreneurs' perceptions about culture and adversity, domestically (Chicago) and abroad (Pakistan), and how these perceptions not only affect their business decisions but also how entrepreneurial activity in turn affects their perceptions of adversity. Dr. Bullough's research spans entrepreneurship, leadership, organizational behavior, cross-cultural management, and international development. Her newest streams of research include entrepreneurship in war zones and under adverse conditions, global leadership, and women's entrepreneurship and leadership.