KATELYNN BISHOP WINS CAS AWARD FOR WRITING EXCELLENCE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Senior Katelynn Bishop has won this year’s Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences. The announcement of the award by Professor Joseph Bizup, Director of the CAS Writing Program, noted that ‘Judges of the competition were unanimous in their praise of your writing and research.’ Katelynn won the award for her paper, ‘Queering Identity: The Deviantization of Bisexual Identities in the Lesbian Community and Bisexual Responses,’ written in her junior year for the seminar on deviance and social control taught by Professor Peter Yeager. The paper served as a prelude to her senior thesis research this year on the subject of non-traditional sexual identities. Next year Katelynn will continue her studies of gender and sexualities in the sociology doctoral program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Read an excerpt from Katelynn’s winning paper.