WGS Announces WAGG Research Awards for 2026 Conference

The Women and Girls in Georgia (WAGG) conference is a biennial event hosted by the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies. This spring we sent out a call for proposals for the 2026 conference (theme: Security and Care), and after reviewing the submissions we have awarded these eleven projects with research funding:

1. Amy Bonnaffons & Ashley Beresch, “Postpartum Postcard Project”
2. Blake Cravey, “How to Make Love in a F*cked-Up World”
3. Sophia Flemming, “Zines as Living Syllabi: Black Feminist Pedagogy”
4. Joy Green, “blackqueerfemme infrapolitics”
5. Bex Groth, “Medicine on the Margins”
6. Cecilia Herles, “Food Security in Athens”
7. Yao Li, “Rotten Together: Chinese Funu Communities”
8. Jane McPherson, “Funding Security: Judia Jackson Harris in Jim Crow Georgia”
9. Tavia Stanford, “All the Women My Mothers Have Been: A Rural South Narrative of Security and Care”
10. Emily Tingle, “Women Carving Out Space Across Political Contexts”
11. Chera Jo Watts, “Radical Hope Book Club”

All awardees will present on their projects at the 2026 WAGG conference in fall 2026. Congratulations to these researchers and we are excited to hear about your work!