The Fall 2009 recipient was as follows:
Maia Brown
Major: Studio Art & History
Project Title: From Mother to Daughter: the Legacies of Jewish Women’s Activism in the United States, Tracing the Roots of Jewish Solidarity Movements with the Palestinians
Project Description: This project explores the legacies of a history of Jewish women’s activism within the Old and New Left in the United States in order to contextualize the phenomenon of contemporary Jewish women in the Palestinian Solidarity Movement. Through oral history collection and local archival research, I use the multigenerational community of radical Jewish women in Seattle, Washington, as a case study. The project interrogates how succeeding generations of women have understood and articulated the intersections of their Jewish, female, and activist identities in order to narrate their place in political and social justice struggles of their day.
