2025 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize |
The prize includes $1,000 and recognition for groundbreaking monographs in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to Women of Color/transnational scholarship. The prize honors Gloria E. Anzaldúa, a valued and long-active member of the National Women's Studies Association.
A key figure in the creation of academic Border Studies and queer theory, Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa (1942-2004) was an internationally-acclaimed independent scholar, cultural theorist, creative writer, and social-justice activist who has made lasting contributions to numerous fields, including Chicanx studies, composition studies, feminism and feminist theory, literary studies, queer theory, and women’s & gender studies. Anzaldúa’s work spans multiple genres, including poetry, theoretical and philosophical essays, short stories, innovative autobiographical narratives, edited collections, and children’s books.
Anzaldúa's impact on WGSS scholarship and inquiry is difficult to encapsulate; we especially invite submissions that explore: Border studies, Chicana feminisms, decoloniality and empire, Lesbian feminisms/studies, self-naming and identification/agency, transnational solidarity and kinship, etc.
Please review our full submission guidelines and parameters here.