We are delighted to announce the 2012 winners of the Gender Institute Prizes for Excellence in Gender and Sexuality Research!

• Jonathon Zapasnik, CASS - Honours Thesis (joint winner)

Deceitful Skin: Embodying Sexual Trauma in Queer Time and Space

• Mollie Boland-Anderson, CoL - Honours Thesis (joint winner)

Lesbian Intimate Partner Violence: ‘Understanding how the legal system’s heterosexist domestic violence framework distorts and erases lesbian existence’.

• Catherine Bishop, CASS - PhD Thesis (first prize)

Commerce was a woman: Women in business in colonial Sydney and Wellington.

• Rebecca Monson, CoL - PhD Theis (second commendation)

Hu nao save tok? Women, men and Land: negotiating property and authority in the Solomon Islands

• Yves Rees, CASS - Journal Article

The Quality and Not Only the Quantity of Australia’s People

Photos from the event:

Jonathon Zapasnik undergraduate honours thesis prize, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Prof Margaret Jolly	Mollie Boland-Anderson, undergraduate honours thesis prize, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Prof Margaret Jolly
Dr Catherine Bishop, PhD thesis winner, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Dr Alessandra Capezio	Dr Rebecca Monson, second commendation PhD thesis winner, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Dr Alessandra Capezio
Yves Rees not present (collected by Catherine Bishop), first prize for journal article, with Vice Chancellor Prof Ian Young and Prof Kim Rubenstein