Lavender Celebration 2025 Nikki Giovanni Award for Queer Scholarship

Lavender Celebration 2025 Nikki Giovanni Award for Queer Scholarship

This award recognizes undergraduate academic excellence at Syracuse University, honoring outstanding research and scholarship that centers the lives and experiences of the LGBTQ+ community throughout various disciplines and intersectional approaches.

Undergraduate senior honorees may be recognized for:
• Commitment to exploring queer issues and/or history within their academic pursuits
• Outstanding performance in class assignments or projects as well as general participation
• Direct engagement with research in their field as a queer individual and/or in research with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community

• Direct engagement can include:
o A research paper/project
o Presenting research
o Work as a research assistant/internship
o TA/leadership in a research course/lab

Please note: Only faculty or professional staff can nominate graduates for this award. Self-nominations will also not be accepted.

NOMINATIONS ARE DUE APRIL 7.

Any questions can be directed to Emily Stewart (estewa09@syr.edu).