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David Nord Award:
This annual award is open to current Whitman College students, faculty members, and student/faculty teams to address issues facing the gay and lesbian community through a variety of creative and scholarly mediums. Preference will be given to student proposals.
Recipient(s) of the award will receive up to $1,000 for projects or research that could include:
1) conducting quantitative or qualitative research projects
2) focusing a senior thesis on gay and/or lesbian issues
3) developing a collection of poems
4) creating an art exhibit
5) producing a video documentary
6) writing a one-act play
7) others, as appropriate
Proposals detailing the project should include the following: --a specific description of the nature and scope of the project identifying the main issues it will cover --why the project is important --a statement specifying the adviser for your project, (i.e., faculty, thesis adviser, etc.) --a statement on your ability to complete it by the end of the academic year --a description as to what form your public presentation will take --successful proposals have typically been 2-3 pages in length
Your proposal must be submitted to the Dean of Students Office in the fall semester. Watch for advertising on campus. The deadline for proposals is usually in early to mid October. The successful recipient will complete the project and make a public presentation to the College community before the end of the spring semester.
David Nord graduated from Whitman college in 1983 with honors in political science. An active member of Phi Delta Theta, he was elected president of ASWC. Recipient of the Truman Scholarship and the US Senate Leadership Award, he worked as an intern with US Senator Henry M. Jackson and served as a delegate to the 1996 Democratic Party Convention. David earned his Master's degree in psychology from Antioch University and had a psychotherapy practice before becoming a full-time researcher and writer. He is author of "Multiple Aids-Related Loss: A Handbook for Understanding and Surviving a Perpetual Fall. In November 1999, David died of Aids.
Past Award Winners:
1996-1997 K.P. (Politics) Courting the Queers: Colorado's Amendment Two and the Romers v. Evans Decision
1997-1998 K.D. (Politics and English) The Nature and Consequences of the Trials of Oscar Wilde
1998-1999 A.H. (Politics) How the Gay Rights Lobby and the Christian Right Have Influenced Each Other Politically in the Past Decade
1999-2000 E.S. (Classics) Greek SeXXX: Why do We Care How the Greeks Had Sex?
2000-2001 K.W. (Politics) Gloria Anzaldua's Art of Living
2001-2002 (co-winners) J.M. (Theatre) In One Room: Queer Conversations and C.R. (Theatre) Female Impersonation: Homosexuality in China and England
2002-2003 A.H. (History) Romantic Friendships and Girl Guides: Changing Conceptions of Female Friendships from 1890 to 1930
2003-2004 (co-winners) N.L. (English) "This Beauteous Forme": The Spirituality of Donne's Holy Sonnets and Gay Reader Response and S.P. (Art) On Campus Dyke
2004-2005 Michelle Johns (Psychology). That's Not Ladylike! Effects of Femininity and Exposure on Homophobia in Women.
This Annual Award is funded by the David Nord Endowement. If you would like to support this award follow the link below and designate your gift to the David Nord Award Endowment.