Essay Prize
Ruth Murray Essay Prize in Women's Studies, Feminist Criticism, Gender or Sexuality Studies
Ruth Murray (center), Education Librarian at the University of Chicago is pictured in the Eckhart Hall Tea Room with two unidentified colleagues. University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-02188, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
2021 Ruth Murray Essay Competition
New Deadline: May 7, 2021
WOMEN'S STUDIES, FEMINIST CRITICISM, GENDER STUDIES, SEXUALITY STUDIES
The Ruth Murray Prize will be awarded for the best essay written by a University of Chicago undergraduate student in the area of women's studies, feminist criticism, gender or sexuality studies. The $500 prize sponsored is in memory of Ruth Murray, who died in 1991, having served as Bibliographer for the Education, Psychology, Sociology and Women's Studies Collections at the Regenstein Library for many years. Ruth Murray had a strong interest in encouraging scholarship in women's studies and often served as a stimulus and facilitator of work by students and faculty in the area. It is the intent of the Ruth Murray Prize Committee that the essay competition sustain and encourage scholarship in gender and sexuality studies, as Ruth Murray did during her lifetime. Essays may come from students in all majors and may take the form of analytic or critical essays, empirical research papers, or personal essays. Essays should be no longer than 50 double-spaced pages. Students may only submit one paper each. Papers must be in English.
To enter the competition, a student should submit an application electronically.
The committee reserves the right to split the prize in the case of multiple awards.
Please contact Student Affairs Administrator Bonnie Kanter (bonniek@uchicago.edu; 773-702-2365) with any questions.