WGS graduating seniors Constance Bourguignon ('20) and Jordan Villegas ('20) have won 2020 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prizes, for their theses “No Way to Speak of Myself”: Lived and Literary Resistance to Gender in French and “La Pocha, Sin Raíces (Spoiled Fruit, Without Roots): A Genealogy of Tejana Borderland Imaginaries," respectively.

In addition to recognizing students' "excellence in undergraduate work," the Hoopes Prize also recognizes supervising faculty for thier "excellence in the art of teaching." Thus we have also to congratulate WGS professors Annabel Kim (WGS Standing Committee) and Durba Mitra (WGS faculty) for advising these two prize-winning projects.

Please join us in lauding all four 2020 WGS Hoopes Prize recipients for their outstanding scholarship and advising. Congratulations, Constance, Jordan, Professor Kim, and Professor Mitra!