Ruth Murray Essay BA Thesis Prize in Women's Studies, Feminist Criticism, Gender or Sexuality Studies.

The Ruth Murray Prize will be awarded for the best essay written by a University of Chicago undergraduate student in the area of women's studies, feminist criticism, gender and/or sexuality studies. The $500 prize sponsored is in memory of Ruth Murray, who died in 1991, having served as Bibliographer for the Education, Psychology, Sociology and Women's Studies Collections at the Regenstein Library for many years. Ruth Murray had a strong interest in encouraging scholarship in gender and sexuality studies and often served as a stimulus and facilitator of work by students and faculty in the area. It is the intent of the Ruth Murray Prize Committee that the thesis competition sustain and encourage scholarship in women's studies, as Ruth Murray did during her lifetime.