Applications must include:

1. Abstract summarizing your research project (e.g., your dissertation) and your plans for fieldwork and/or travel to archives and/or other research methodologies (500 words)
2. Provide a four page (double-spaced) application statement, including: description of the dissertation, its intellectual contributions, plans for the fellowship year, and a timetable for completion.
3. Resume or CV
4. Two letters of recommendation (Recommendations are sent directly from faculty member to the Scholarship Portal.)

Supplemental questions:

1. Are you a graduate student at UB working on a research project about gender and/or sexuality in an international context?
2. Have you passed your department’s proposal defense?
3. Is your project at an advanced stage of research?

The Gender Institute must be acknowledged in any publications or exhibitions that are enabled or enhanced by the fellowship.

Applications should be completed on the UB Scholarship Portal.

Criteria of Evaluation:

1. Applicants must show a commitment to research on gender and/or sexuality in an international context.
2. Applicants should demonstrate that they have passed the proposal defense stage.
3. Priority will be given to students at an advanced stage of their projects.
4. Applicants must show evidence of academic excellence.
5. Priority is given to applicants with a well-articulated project and research goals.
6. Review committee places importance on letters of recommendation.

In "A Feminist Ethnographic Inquiry into Anatolian Women’s Cultural Production: Crafting Culture, Identity, and Memory in Turkey," I am examining the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge through the making of patik—traditional socks crafted by women in rural Anatolia. These seemingly ordinary objects are imbued with deep symbolism and history, reflecting the intersection of personal identity, resilience, and social roles within the context of Turkish national identity and gendered cultural traditions. While patik originated as a practical necessity—designed to protect against the cold Anatolian winters—its role has evolved into a powerful medium for women's self-expression, a silent dialogue between personal experience and broader societal shifts.

The intricate motifs that adorn these socks reflect the philosophies, joys and sorrows of the women who create them, transforming a simple item of clothing into a deeply personal diary. As they knit these essential textiles for their families and communities, women mark significant life milestones such as marriage and childbirth. The recurring patterns within the designs underscore the centrality of women’s roles in Anatolian society, while also highlighting their marginalized positionality within traditional gender norms. This tension between empowerment and repression is central to the feminist critique of domestic handcrafts. Second-wave feminists have argued that these crafts can both reinforce traditional gender roles and serve as a form of resistance. Handicrafts, including patik, evoke memories of domesticity and motherhood, while simultaneously engaging with themes of transformation and resistance. The act of stitching, in this sense, represents both creation and destruction—a delicate balance between personal autonomy and the constraints imposed by patriarchal norms. I argue that, through the distinctive motifs woven into these socks, women articulate personal and collective histories, resisting the erasure of their contributions and the imposition of national narratives that often exclude them. This research challenges dominant historical narratives, particularly in the context of Turkey’s modernization, where national identity is often tied to cultural uniformity and patriarchal values and is crucial for amplifying the voices of Anatolian women whose cultural contributions have been marginalized in academic and national discourse.

2024
Anupriya Pandey, Sociology
Project: Locating Gender in Caste Ecologies: Dalit Women Negotiating “Freedoms” within the Pesticide Nexus in India. 

2023
Gabriela Cordoba Vivas, Media Studies
Project: ‘Gender Ideology’ as Performance. The Global Right and the Trans*feminist Response” 

2022
Victoria Nachreiner, History
Project: "A Marriage of Aesthetics: Afropolitan Consumption, Bodily Practices, and Cis-Atlantic Gendering in Old Calabar, 1840-1940"

2021
Marta Aleksandrowicz, Comparative Literature
Project: “Flight, Cockroach, and the Maid: Toward a New, Feminine Universal in Olga Tokarczuk, Clarice Lispector, and Gloria Anzaldúa”

2020
Azalia P. Muchransyah, Media Study
Project: aims to illuminate the status of media activism, especially documentary film, in contemporary Indonesia as well as to explore the potential of documentary media to contribute to the transformation of HIV activism and advocacy in the face of the paradoxes around HIV/AIDS in key population members related to Indonesian prisons.

2019
Gabriella Nassif, Gobal Gender & Sexuality Studies
Project: centers on migrant domestic workers in Lebanon &
Alexandra Prince, History
Project:concerns the history of the turn of the 20th century Jamaican religious movement known as Bedwardism

2018
Elif Ege, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: "Feminist Intimacies around International Mechanisms: Pitfalls of Feminist Coalition-Building between Kurdish and Turkish Women in Turkey" &
Karolina Kulicka, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: "'The Problem That Has No Name:' Mechanisms of Organizational Gendering in the Polish Civil Service."

2017
Natalia Pamula, Comparative Literature
Project: "Collective Intimacy and the Promise of Invulnerability: Representations of Disability in Polish Literature, 1945-1989"

2017 Solidarity Fellowships
Elif Ege, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: how Kurdish women construct transnational connections at a local level &
Karolina Kulicka, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: gender in Polish bureaucracies 

2016
Anne Marie Butler, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project: "Unintelligible Bodies: Queerness in Contemporary Tunisian Art"

2015
Mehwish Sarwari, Political Science
Project: "UN Responsivness to Wartime Sexual Violence"

2014
Salwatura Prabha Manuratne, English 
Project: "Modern Incarnations of Figures of Violence in Asian and Asian Canadian Literature and Film"

2013
Eman Abu-Sabah, Nursing 
Project: "Jordanian Health Care Providers' Responses Toward Intimate Partner Violence"