Feminist Aesthetics Prize

Deadline: February 1, 2026

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce a new Feminist Aesthetics Prize to encourage new, unpublished work on feminist aesthetics.

i) PRIZE: The prize will be $1000 for the prize and $1400 for travel to the ASA Annual Meeting to present the unpublished work at a special session at the meeting.

ii) ELIGIBILITY: Eligibility is restricted to persons who are ASA members as of the date of the submission deadline.

iii) DEADLINE: The submission deadline will be February 1 with the prize to be awarded every two years in even-numbered years.

iv) REVIEW: Selection of the winning paper will be made by a committee of three ASA members, appointed by the ASA Trustees, in consultation with Peg Brand Weiser and the FCC leadership.

v) SUBMISSION: Papers should be submitted in Word format, suitable for anonymous review, not exceeding 7,500 words, with an abstract of 150 words by the deadline to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org

vi) SELECTION CRITERIA: The paper will be judged based on significance of the topic of issue, quality of the research, quality of the writing, originality, and contribution to the feminist literature within aesthetics—broadly construed—that focuses on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and/or sexual preference/identity; the paper may be and is encouraged to be multidisciplinary. The ASA reserves the right to decline the award of the prize in years in which no suitable entries are received.

vii) PUBLICATION: The presumption, but not the guarantee, is that the paper will be published in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, pending appropriate review arranged by the JAAC co-editors.

viii) FUNDING: Funds to endow this prize in perpetuity have been generously provided by Peg Brand Weiser.

Feminist Aesthetics Prize, Previous winners

2024: Zoe Walker, Trinity College, Oxford, "Comic Objectification"