The Bettina Aptheker Award for Research on Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence Endowment

This endowment funds an award supporting either an undergraduate or graduate student whose work relates to sexual, gendered, and/or racial violence to further their research, or to do community service. This award was established in honor of Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies, Bettina Aptheker, at the time of her retirement in Spring 2018.

A radical feminist, political activist, UCSC alumna, and history scholar with a national reputation, Bettina Aptheker is one of UC Santa Cruz’s legendary professors. Having taught one of the country’s largest and most influential introductory feminist studies courses for more than three decades at UC Santa Cruz, she has exposed her deeply compelling ideas to more than 16,000 students.

2023 Bettina Aptheker Award Winner: Millie Montoya
2022 Bettina Aptheker Award Winner: Jess Fournier
2021 Bettina Aptheker Award Winner: Amelia Claire Huster
2020 Bettina Aptheker Award Winners: Jessica Calvanico and Claire Urbanski

If you have questions about a donation to the Bettina Aptheker Award for Research on Sexual, Gendered, and Racial Violence Endowment, please contact Cari Napoles, Senior Director of Development for the Humanities Division, by phone: (831) 459-4713, or by email at cmnapole@ucsc.edu