Watson Postdoctoral Fellow Liana Woskie was awarded the Horowitz Foundation Trustees' Award for most innovative approach to theory and/or methodology.
Liana Woskie received the Horowitz Foundation Trustees' Award for her project titled "Accounting for Coercion: Female Sterilization and Routinized Rights Violations in Healthcare." Her project focuses on measuring routinized forms of coercion as a form of state violence in contemporary female sterilization care. The Horowitz Foundation provides dissertation awards to early career researchers working on topics across social policy, from healthcare to housing and incarceration. The Trustee's Award is one of two special prizes with less than a 1% acceptance rate.