The Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) program is pleased to announce that Katrina Jagodinsky, Associate Professor in History and a WGS program faculty member, has been awarded the 2026 Women's and Gender Justice Award.
Given annually, the award recognizes a WGS faculty member (core faculty or program faculty, tenure-line or PoP) at the assistant or associate level, who has contributed significantly to their field of study or the broader community through service or leadership to advance justice. This award provides $500 to the awardee in the spring and an additional $1,000 for summer research or community work.
Dr. Jagodinsky will use the funds to support the "Petitioning for Freedom: Habeus Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924" online digital humanities project she has created and continues to build.
This award is the product of the generosity of Helen Moore, professor emerita of sociology, WGS program faculty, and past WGS director), who established two new awards to recognize faculty work toward social justice: the Women's and Gender Justice Award for WGS and the Racial and Indigenous Justice Award for the Institute for Ethnic Studies.
We are so grateful to Helen for her generous support, which will recognize and celebrate the incredible work our faculty do to advance justice.
