2025 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize

NWSA offers an annual $1,000 Alison Piepmeier book award for a groundbreaking monograph in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies that makes significant contributions to feminist disability studies scholarship thanks to a gift from Susan Shaw, Patti Duncan, Jane Nichols, Kryn Freehling-Burton, and Nancy Barbour. The donation comes from the contributor budget from a four-volume reference collection, Women's Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2018).

This prize honors Alison Piepmeier; Dr. Piepmeier, as described on her personal blog, was a professor in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at the College of Charleston, and much, much more. When she wasn't working to bring down the patriarchy, she wrote here and elsewhere about feminist disability studies, Zines, her ugly car, and an eclectic range of topics. She also wrote about the brain tumor that eventually caused her death on August 12, 2016, at the age of 43.

The Association welcomes submissions that examine the intersection of feminist and disability studies, with a particular emphasis on reproductive decisions and disabilities and parenting and disabilities in honor of Dr. Piepmeier's legacy.