Black Queer Studies Student Award

The UT Libraries is thrilled to announce the inaugural Black Queer Studies Student Awards. This annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it.

  • The Richardson Award honors graduate student work, $1,200 (pre-tax).
  • The Hogan/Schell honors undergraduate work, $800 (pre-tax).

To apply: See Instructions, Eligibility and Criteria on this guide: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/awards

Submissions are due Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.

About the Awards 

These awards are named for Professor Matt Richardson and former UT Librarians Kristen Hogan and Lindsey Schell, who founded the UT Libraries’ groundbreaking Black Queer Studies Collection in 2009-2010. The prize money is dispersed through the UT Libraries, and primarily draws from the Black Queer Studies Collection Endowment, originally funded through a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign in 2021.

Learn more about the UT Libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection, including the story of its founding: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/