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Emory Ph.D. Candidate Carrie Baker Awarded Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant In Women's Studies Emory Ph.D. candidate Carrie Baker, daughter of Patricia Baker of Atlanta, Ga. (30327) and Patrick Baker of Westmoreland, N.H. (03467), has been awarded a dissertation grant in women's studies by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Baker is one of 15 winners, chosen from among 257 candidates for this award. As a grant recipient, Baker will receive a $2,000 grant toward the expenses of research on her proposed doctoral dissertation, "They Just Don't Get It: A History of Sexual Harassment Law and Activism in the United States." Baker's fellow award recipients attend institutions such as Stanford University, Rutgers University, Cornell University, and Johns Hopkins University. Baker received her bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a law degree from Emory Law School in 1994. She also received her master's from Emory in women's studies. Baker has received a number of awards and honors, such as the Wall Street Journal Achievement Award, the American Jurisprudence Award and the Georgia Association for Women's Lawyer's Scholarship. From 1993-1994 she served as the editor-in-chief of the Emory Law Journal and was included in the 1994 edition of Who's Who Among Students in America. Candidates for the Woodrow Wilson dissertation grant in women's studies
must be graduate students who are studying women's lives, history and
literature. Winners of these awards have gone on to become scholars
and teachers, or take positions in which their work will affect the
lives of women and girls, according to the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
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