Each year the Department awards this fellowship which may include more than one grant for further study in economics. The grants are available to Wellesley College undergraduates or alumnae both for post-graduate study and for special projects in economics.
Funds vary in amount.
Peggy held the M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and the M.A. from Yale. She was active in founding the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, and in the Union for Radical Political Economics. She was working on her Ph.D. dissertation and teaching economics at Hampshire College when she died. The award recipient is announced at the annual department dinner. The department makes substantial cash awards each year to three or more students.