GALA Senior Essay Prize

In association with GALA (the Yale Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association), LGBT Studies awards an annual GALA Senior Essay Prize.

Any senior essay or senior project, submitted to any department or program in Yale College, is eligible if it addresses a topic relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender studies. Essays or projects must be submitted by seniors themselves no later than Monday, April 27.  Send or bring three copies of your essay or project to Harkness Hall (WLH) 312. Please slip them under the door if no one is in the office, or mail them to LGBT Studies, P.O. Box 208334, New Haven, CT 06520-8334.

Recent GALA Prize winners:

2009

Kathryn Himmelstein, "Scared Straight: Institutional Sanctions against LGBTQ Youth"

Anna Wipfler, "The Making of 'the Gay Ivy': A History of Lesbian and Gay Student Organizing at Yale, 1969-1987"

2008
Michael Nedelman, for his film "Everyone Who Has Ever Lived Here"

2007
Matthew Busick, "Becoming a Yale Man: Intimacy among Yale Students in the Nineteenth Century"
Robin Pearce, "A House Divided: The Shifting Identity of the Black Church Navigated through the Discourse of the Lives of Men Who Have Sex with Other Men"