About
The ELGA WASSERMAN AWARD is given to a senior who has shown extraordinary commitment to the advancement of social justice and gender equality at Yale College.
Women’s Studies at Yale began in the confluence of two events: the scholarly impulse of early second-wave feminism and the 1969 admission of Yale’s first female undergraduates. Elga Wasserman, the President’s Special Assistant on the Education of Women, argued forcefully for women’s studies as a necessary element of coeducation and organized eight courses focused on women by the second year.
Elga Wasserman Awardees
| Jasselene Paz | 2024 |
| Natasha Ambriz-Villela | 2023 |
| Morgan Baker | 2022 |
| Tera Hoffman | 2020 |
| SGH Gavis-Hughson | 2019 |
| Celeste Dushime | 2018 |
|
Isaac Amend Nicholas Aramayo |
2017 |
| Rose Bear Don’t Walk | 2016 |
| Chamonix Amelia Adams Porter | 2015 |
| Sochi Nnameka | 2008 |
| Haley Elizabeth Hogan | 2007 |
| Fei Liu | 2002 |
| Bukola Hammed-Owens | 2001 |
| Grace Anna Rollins | 2000 |
| Joshua David Kagan | 1999 |
| Lisa Hasday | 1998 |
| Erika Fricke | 1997 |
| Iffat Islam | 1996 |
| Ona Ahumada | 1996 |
| Emily Ishem Raboteau | 1995 |