Honoring Excellence
Honoring Excellence
Each year, students in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (GSWS) Program are recognized for outstanding efforts. The GSWS Outstanding Senior Award honors a GSWS major who embodies a combination of theory and activism. The Ellen Hamilton Lida Mason Award honors a GSWS major for academic excellence in women’s and gender studies. Ellen Hamilton and Lida Mason were the first female students at UVM. The University of Vermont was the first university to admit women into Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
Recent Honorees:
Outstanding Senior Award
- 2024: Nico Walton
- 2023: Olivia Norvell
- 2022: Ali Castile
- 2021: Alex Escaja-Heiss
Ellen Hamilton Lida Mason Award
- 2024: Madi Chase
- 2023: Emily Britton
- 2022: Steph Ryder and Sabrina Fiore
- 2021: Zoe Shepard, Carmen Harris
Past Award Winners
The Alpha Delta Chapter of Lota Lota Lota (Triota), The National Women's Studies Honor Society
Triota is named for the ancient goddesses Inanna, Ishtar, and Iris, the University of Vermont chapter is Alpha Delta. Chapters of Triota have been established at universities across the United States. The purpose of the society is to promote an interest in women's studies, research of social problems affecting all women, and other social and intellectual activities that will lead to the improvement in the condition of all people. Membership is awarded on the basis of superior academic performance both in GSWS and in the candidate's entire undergraduate work at the University of Vermont.
Students Inducted in 2024
- Angie Berg
- Kaylee Bushee
- Claire Colvin
- Quinn Fisher
- Emory Gerlach
- Via Hedley
- Kyra Herschlag
- Ashna Hille
- Nicole Krumrei
- Laura Libby
- Riley Maher
- Lucia Marsiglio
- Molly Northrup
- James Neisen
- Robin Olsen
- Mackenzie Paich
- Lex Pedersen
- Chloe Post
- Greta Powers
- Esther Ray
- Liv Reed
- Sydney Reiner
- Maddy Saffer
- Emily Semaya
- Ariel Schuck
- Hailey Veras
- Sarah Von Sneidern
- Nico Walton
- Madison Whitney
- Emily Wigmore
- Kadence Willis
- Zoe Wilson
- Bee Wilson
Students Inducted in 2023
- Caroline Adams
- Chloe Alexander
- Olivia Allegra
- Eden Ambrovich
- March Amog
- Hannah Assel
- Nolan Benoit
- Roxy Benson
- Katie Brighton
- Julia Buonomo
- Julia Celeste
- Charlotte Chugh
- Laura Clifford
- Ember Conley
- Anessa Conner
- Kathryn Cox
- Kaya Daylor
- Grace Devlin
- Emma Dinsmore
- Isabella Dunn
- Zoe Ebner
- Lana Edwards
- Cat Faries
- Peri Ferdinand
- Whitney Fitzgerald
- Abbey Gentile
- Sophie Gilman
- Emily Goodall
- Adeline Haacker
- Gus Heintz
- Ana Hester
- Maggie Hodgson
- Riley Hudson
- Isabel Jamieson
- Lily Jensen
- Delaney Luzny
- Lily Macaulay
- Clara Macfaden
- Jamie Marchetti
- Oscar Mcintosh
- Aidan Mckessy
- Anna Mendenhall
- Kat Monnes
- Freddie Morway
- Jordan Newquist
- Riley O'Hagan
- Sydney Partin
- Maya Pound
- Caiden Rainville
- Sydney Reiner
- Sylvie Rouslin
- Avery Rubin
- Mary Russo
- Gil Salzman
- Brooke Schimelman
- Natalie Senior
- Maizy Shepard
- Sarah Solomon
- Becca Sperry
- Corinthia Steele
- Benna Trachtenberg
- Carly Trider
- Alli Tuden
- Rebecca Vanden Bergh
- Mirabella Vulikh
- Peter J. Wilkins
- Haley P. Wilson
- Joslynn L. Wright
- Willa Yonkman
- Zane N. Zupan
Students Inducted in 2021
- Abaigail Hurd
- Ada Case
- Alex Escaja-Heiss
- Ali Tuden
- Ann Wong
- Ashley Shepard
- Bryn Martin
- Cate Ward
- Ciara Mead
- Cole Urquiola
- Eliza Shaughnessy
- Emily Britton
- Emily Neuman
- Emma Bearison
- Emma Hayday
- Emma Staff
- Erin Harris
- Haley Rosen
- Izzy Brady
- Jada Rosemark
- Jane Burton
- Josie Rimmer
- Julian Barritt
- Kala Daylor
- Katie Brighton
- Kayla Duvel
- Kayley Dillon
- Lane Dibler
- Leah Endler
- Lexi Sutyak
- Lucie Novelline
- Madeline Spear
- Madi Chase
- Matthew Hagberg
- Mia Vaccaro
- Morgan Gregory-Sample
- Olivia Voth
- Raven Mellinger
- Ryn Renzetti Stanfield
- Sabrina Fiore
- Sierra Miller
- Sophie Behunick
- Sophie Majerske
- Steph Ryder
- Valorie Vanarsdall
- Zoe Sheppard
Students Inducted in 2019
- Ali Barritt
- Sade Bolger
- Kayley Dillon
- Justine Gerace
- Carmen Harris
- Anna Moore
- Lauren Schnepf
- Zoe Sheppard
- Emma Spitzer
- Emma Staff
- Juls Sundberg
- Alli Tuden
- Olivia Turner
- Mickenzie Zadworny
The Daniel-McCarter Award
UVM's first prize for outstanding undergraduate coursework in LGBT studies was created in spring 2004 and first awarded in 2005. Named for Owen Daniel-McCarter '04 in recognition of his dedication to LGBT concerns at UVM, this award honors outstanding scholarly and creative coursework on LGBT/queer topics by undergraduates. Its goal is to acknowledge the importance of sexuality and gender identity issues in students' academic and intellectual lives. This award is generously cosponsored by the UVM Bookstore.
Daniel-McCarter Awardees
2024
Eamon Dunn - "Transience," written for Greg Bottom's Writing Creative Nonfiction course, ENG 2470
Quinn Canivan - "Gender in the Matrix, Unloaded," written for Mary Burke's Transgender Studies seminar, GSWS 4050
Honorable Mentions
Dylan Gordon - "Songs of Becoming," written for Eve Alexandra's Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in American Poetry course, ENG 1270
CJ Healy - “The Lives They Chose: Margaret Anderson and Her Family of Artists," a thesis written under the supervision of Paul Deslandes, GSWS
2023
Joia Putnoy - "Relocate the Party," written for Val Rohy’s Sexual Dissidence and American Culture class, ENGS 281
Michael Tobin - "Chester Way’s Same-Sex Intimacies," written for Paul Deslandes’ Queer Lives: LGBT History class, HST 280
2022
Maggie Archbold, Bri Bloom, Caleigh Campbell, Leah Endler, and Jay Gershman - “Coming In: A Love Letter to Myself,” created for Johann Wood’s Experiments in Drag, Jazz, and Beatnik Drama class, Theater 96.
2021
Bella Firman, Stephanie Ryder - “Recognition and Legibility: Outside the Binary in the World of Medicine” written for Eve Alexandra's Introduction to Creative Writing class, ENGS 53.
Olivia Baker - “Please Write Back” written for Eve Alexandra's Introduction to Creative Writing class, ENGS 53.