Hayley Salo Receives Writing Awards

HAYLEY SALO received the Maddox Award and the June Jordan Award, both in the doctoral student category, for essays submitted through the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality department. The essays are excerpts of her dissertation about nineteenth century embroidery samplers. The first one explores how women used embroidery in psychiatric asylums to support or dismantle relationships with other women, with a focus on the work of Mary Frances Heaton and Lorina Bulwer. The second one analyzes the religious, cultural, and political implications of the embroidery sampler Eliza Baynard (Cherokee) made while attending the Valley Towns Mission School in North Carolina. Hayley also received the Summer 2025 Dissertation Completion Award from the Graduate School in support of her final semester in the Comparative Humanities PhD program.