Dorothy Berkson Writing Award
This award recognizes written achievement (e.g., scholarly essays, research projects, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, or playwriting) focused on gender and authored by a senior. The award winners are traditionally honored at a reception that celebrates Professor Berkson’s contributions to Lewis & Clark College and the excellence of current students who study gender through scholarly analysis and written expression.
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Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies -
Remembrances of Dorothy Berkson, Professor Jean Ward -
9th Annual Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Smith Hall -
Award winners (L) Sully Pujol ’17 and Erin Keoppen ’17 (R) with Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies. -
2017 award winners -
Eva Gellman '18 presenting her award winning paper, "The Slipperiness of the Sublime in Eavan Boland's "The Woman Who Turns Herself Into A Fish.'" -
Dorothy Berkson, professor emerita of English -
2018 award winners, Mikay Parsons and Eva Gellman -
Mike Berkson (L) and his son David Berkson -
Mikay Parson '18 presenting their award winning paper, "Cultural Intelligibility and the Policing of Gender: The Tension Between Butler's Theory of Performativity and Personal Experience."
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2016 award winners, Angie Epifano and Eva Goellner -
2016 Graduating Gender Studies minors -
2016 award winner Angie Epifano presenting her essay, “A Veiled Revolution: The Photographs of Angèle Etoudi Essamba”. -
10th Annual Dorothy Berkson Awards -
2015 award winners, Annabel Saliba Carroll and Emma Post -
Kathryn Kucera, Stephanie Arnold, Michael Berkson, and Kemi Coutinho -
2014 award winners, Laura Houlberg and Gus Wolff -
2017 Award winner Erin Keoppen presents her essay, “Wild Words: Space, Place and Gender in Tamil Feminist Poetry and Prose.” -
Deborah Heath, director of Gender Studies -
Director Deborah Heath and program seniors -
2015 award winners Annabel Carrol (L) and Emma Post -
Jean Ward, Professor Emerita of Communication -
Congratulations to our awardees and Gender Studies graduates -
Sully Pujol presenting their essay, “‘Beauty is Truth, Truth Art(ifice)’: Female Creative Agency in John Keats’s Isabella, Lamia, and The Eve of St. Agnes.” -
2014 Berkson Awardees, Laura Houlberg and Gus Wolff, and the Gender Studies graduates -
2019 award winners (L) Mira Glasser '19 and Madeleine Bentley '19 (R) with Deborah Heath, Director of Gender Studies
Congratulations to 2021-22 winners Eve March and Ashley O’Leary!
Eve March ’22 (Art History)
“Maggots and Metamorphosis: ‘Becoming’ in Louise Bourgeois’ Self Portraiture” (essay)
Ashley O’Leary ’22 (English)
“‘Penetrating Nature’s Hiding Places’: Masculinist Scientific Ideals, Fatal Passions, and the Female Body in Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein” (essay)
Check out the Dorothy Berkson Archival Page to see past awardees.
Thank you to Dorothy Berkson’s family, friends, and colleagues, whose generous contributions have made this award possible.