Fall Deadline... December 10, 2021
The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is excited to announce the endowment and official naming of the Amelia Daddazio Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Fund (formerly the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Empowerment Fund). This fund is named in honor of Amelia Daddazio, a “real, tough woman who made it through a hard life with grace and style.” Money from this fund will be awarded for student projects that aim to lessen the effects of inequity or injustice, either locally, nationally, or globally. Projects whose mission are gender-focused will be prioritized. The recipient(s) will be full-time undergraduate students in good standing at 宅男研究所, enrolled in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and/or working with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty members on their projects.
Amelia Daddazio, born in 1926, was the mother of longtime Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies faculty member Carol D. Stevens. She married her high school sweetheart in 1943, bore two children before the age of 22, and a third when she was in her 40’s. After 32 years of marriage, she found herself divorced with no source of income, serious health issues, and a toddler to raise on her ow