Category: Awards

ASWM’s mission includes the conferring of awards of excellence in a variety of fields comprising Women and Mythology

Posted on

Special Recognition for Dr. Heide Göttner-Abendroth

At the 2012 ASWM National Conference, Heide Göttner-Abendroth of Germany received the first Saga Special Recognition Award in Women’s History.  This award is named for Saga, the Norse goddess of history and prophecy.   In giving the award for “tireless work to bring to light an alternate cultural narrative,”  the ASWM board cited “Göttner-Abendroth’s lifelong passion…to research matriarchal societies and cultures, past and present.  Her work has been a catalyst for international scholars and indigenous peoples to promote a new understanding of non-patriarchal modes of social organization.”

Göttner-Abendroth is the founder of Modern Matriarchal Studies and the International Academy Hagia for Matriarchal Studies and Matriarchal Spirituality in Bavaria. Her meticulous research demonstrates that matriarchies are egalitarian cultures based on gender equality and consensus decision-making. In 2005, Heide was nominated as one of 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Posted on

Charlene Spretnak Wins 2012 Demeter Award

Charlene Spretnak is the 2012 winner of the Demeter Award for Leadership in Women’s Spirituality. Her presentation for the ASWM conference is entitled, Modernity, Mythology, and the Elusive Gestalt.

Ms. Spretnak’s work is internationally recognized in the areas of spirituality, cultural history, feminist and other social criticism, and ecological thought (Green politics, ecofeminism, ecophilosophy). In 2006 she was named one of “100 Eco-Heroes of All Time” by the publication of the British government’s Environmental Department.

She is one of the founding mothers of the Women’s Spirituality movement, through her work in the second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s.  Her first book, Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths reconstructed pre-Olympian myths for the first time in more than 2500 years; the Los Angeles Times called it “a poetic revelation.”

Continue reading “Charlene Spretnak Wins 2012 Demeter Award”

Posted on

Announcing the Sarasvati Awards for Best Books

Sarasvati Awards for Best Books in Women and Mythology

The Association for Study of Women and Mythology announces the first biennial competition for the Sarasvati Awards for Best Books in Women and Mythology.  Two awards will be given at the ASWM national conference in San Francisco in May, one for nonfiction/scholarly work, one for creative work in poetry, fiction or other genre, for books published during 2010 and 2011.

Books must be published in print, not only in e-book format. Nominations must come directly from publisher; authors should contact their publishers to ask them to nominate for this award.  Each publisher may nominate one work in each category, although publishers may nominate in only one category if they prefer.  At this point, anthologies do not qualify for this award.  Publishers should contact ASWM at SarasvatiAwards@gmail.com to receive required submissions form and details of submissions process.

Judges will be a panel of published writers in women and mythology.  Their own work cannot be accepted for consideration for these awards.

Awardees will be invited to read at the ASWM national conference during the year of their award and/or the next biannual meeting following.

Posted on

Introducing the Kore Award Commission Judges

The Kore Award Commission, charged with giving the 2012 Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology, has established its panel of judges for the 2012 award:

Candace C. Kant, Ph.D., is an Emerita Professor of History with the College of Southern Nevada.  She is co founder of Goddess Ink, LTD. a press dedicated to publishing scholarly and creative books in the fields of Women’s Spirituality and Goddess Studies, and co editor of Heart of the Sun: An Anthology in Exaltation of Sekhmet.

 

Betz King, Ph. D.,  is a psycho-spiritual psychologist, and the Master’s Program Coordinator at The Michigan School of Professional Psychology.  Her dissertation, Bodyhood and Being-With: A woman’s experience of embodied spiritual empowerment, focuses on women’s experiences of body wisdom.

Dawn Work-MaKinne, Ph.D., is a 2010 graduate of the Union Institute and University with a doctoral concentration in Women’s Studies in Religion. Her dissertation, Deity in Sisterhood: The Collective Female Sacred in Germanic Europe, won both the 2010 ASWM Kore Award and the 2010 Marvin B. Sussman Award for Excellence given by the Union Institute. Dawn is on the faculty of the Women’s Thealogical Institute. She makes her home in Des Moines, Iowa.

Posted on

Announcing the Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology

The Kore Award, offered through the Association for Study of Women and Mythology and made possible through the gift of a generous contributor, recognizes excellence in scholarship in the area of women and mythology. It is offered in even-numbered years, for dissertations completed in the previous two calendar years (including defense).

Applicants can be from any discipline, including but not limited to literature, religious studies, art or art history, classics, anthropology, and communications. Creative dissertations must include significant analysis of mythology in addition to creative work.   Applicants must be members of ASWM at time of submission.

Applications for the 2012 award may be made between November 1, 2011 and February 15, 2012.  Selection is made by a panel of scholars from a variety of disciplines.

_______

Application for Kore Award for Best Dissertation in Women and Mythology

Deadline for submission: February 15, 2012

Award announcement:  May 12, 2012

Name:

Mailing address:

Email:

Field of Study:

Title of Dissertation:

Date of graduation:

Degree granted by:

Dissertation advisor’s name:

Dissertation abstract:

Please submit this form via email to ASWM.KoreAward@gmail.com with Word attachment of dissertation.  Please have dissertation director email letter of support to same address.