Deadline: 15 June 2024
Nominations are now open for The Ann Snitow Prize, a yearly award for a feminist intellectual and activist, living and working in the United States, who has consistently exhibited the qualities that led Ann to be so admired and cherished.
Ann Barr Snitow (1943–2019) is celebrated as an influential and much-loved feminist intellectual and activist. A native New Yorker with a Cornell University undergraduate literature degree in 1965, she cut short her doctoral studies in London to return to New York in 1968, responding to the call of the nascent women’s liberation movement. Ann helped found New York Radical Feminists in 1969, beginning a lifetime of feminist organizing and mobilizing. Her equally significant academic work proceeded in parallel with an avalanche of activism, emerging from her many gifts – boundless energy, wide-ranging intelligence, unconquerable optimism, a passion for teaching, and, above all, an almost unique gift for collegiality.
Funding Information
- The Ann Snitow Prize is a $12,500 yearly award.
Eligibility Criteria
- The ideal candidate for the Ann Snitow Prize is:
- A feminist, broadly defined: someone for whom feminism goes beyond a movement for rights and equality to a vision of a world without social domination or economic exploitation, a world of security, freedom, and pleasure.
- An intellectual and/or artist who thinks with rigor, flexibility, and originality, and who inspires and nurtures the intellectual and creative best in others.
- A radical social justice activist who practices generosity, integrity, and perseverance—and is effective, whether in instigating new formations; mobilizing and connecting people; and/or sustaining and growing campaigns, projects, groups, and institutions.
- Prizewinners may be academics, independent scholars, educators, writers or artists, full- or part-time volunteer or paid organizers—or currently engaged in any combination of intellectual and activist feminist work.
For more information, visit The Ann Snitow Prize.
