This prize is returning for 2026! Stay tuned for details.

Application Deadline: May 15, 2026

Previous Recipients of the Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty

• 2020 Yndia Lorick-Wilmot, Northeastern University (awardee)
• 2019 Sarah Trembath, American University (awardee)
• 2018 Aishah Shahidah Simmons, cultural worker/independent scholar (awardee). Andrea Hernández Holm, University of Arizona and Mimi Khúc, University of Maryland-Baltimore County (finalists)
• 2017 Annette Rodríguez
• 2016 Anastazia Schmid, Indiana Women’s Prison (awardee), Anne Balay (finalist)
• 2015 Santiago Andres Garcia, Rio Hondo College (awardee). Virginia Grise, playwright (finalist)
• 2014 Che Gossett (awardee). Walidah Imarisha, Portland State University (finalist)
• 2013 Ana Castillo (awardee). Elizabeth Schewe, Northern Illinois University (finalist)
• 2012 Abigail Manzella (awardee), Stern College For Women, Yeshiva University
• 2011 Jennifer A. Reimer (awardee), University of California, Berkeley, Disordering the Border: Harryette Mullen’s Transaborder Poetics in Muse & Drudge in ariel: A Review of International English Literature Volume 45, Number 3, July 2014, pp. 151-183
• 2010 Lori Harrison-Kahan (awardee), Boston College, finalist mention: Sarah Eden Schiff, Agnes Scott College
• 2009 Smadar Lavie (awardee), Staying Put: Crossing the Israel–Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa in Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 36, Number 1, June 2011, pp. 101-121