The Susa Young Gates Award
FOR BEST STUDENT ESSAY IN GLOBAL WOMEN'S STUDIES
Susa Young Gates
LDS author, editor, and women’s rights advocate Susa Young Gates (1856-1933) published dozens of articles and nine books, including two novels, a biography, a history of LDS women, and a history of the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association. She was founding editor of the Young Women’s Journal and the Relief Society Magazine. She worked as a delegate and speaker to five congresses of the International Council of Women, as well as on the National Council of Women.
This award, named in honor of Susa Young Gates in 2014, encourages quality student research and writing in any field related to Global Women’s Studies.
ELIGIBILITY
Contestants must be enrolled as students at Brigham Young University during the academic year in which their essay was written and submitted to the competition.
REQUIREMENTS
The essays must be at least 3000 words long and based on original research.
AMOUNT OF AWARD
First prize $400, second prize $200, third prize $100. If the authors agree, the winning essays will be recognized and considered for inclusion in the following year’s volume of the Global Women’s Studies student journal, AWE: A Woman’s Experience.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
Submissions open during the last week of fall semester and continue until midnight on April 18, 2024. The GWS executive committee will choose the winning essays. The committee’s decision, announced at the annual closing social, will be final.
SUBMISSION PROCESS