UMD Doctoral Student Named Woodrow Wilson Foundation Women's Studies Fellow

College Park, MD -- University of Maryland doctoral student Julie Enszer has been awarded one of six 2012 Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships. Enszer, a student in the department of women's studies in the College of Arts and Humanities, was also named the first ever Alicia S. Ostriker Fellow in Women's Studies/American Literature for her work on lesbian print culture in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s.

The Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies program, the only national fellowship for doctoral work on issues of women and gender, supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences doing interdisciplinary and original work on these issues.

Ms. Enszer's dissertation "The Whole Naked Truth of Our Lives: Lesbian Print Culture in the United States from 1969 through 1989," examines lesbian-feminist print culture in the United States from 1969 through 1989.

Created in 1974, the Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellowship supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways. Each Fellow receives $3,000 to be used for expenses connected with completing their dissertations, such as research-related travel, data work/collection, and supplies. In addition, their dissertation titles will be publicized with leading scholarly publishers at the conclusion of the dissertation year.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation identifies and develops the best minds for the nation's most important challenges. The Foundation awards fellowships to enrich human resources, works to improve public policy, and assists organizations and institutions in enhancing practice in the U.S. and abroad.

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