Other topics of this year's winners include the emergence of agora-phobia as a perceived disease of women once women were permitted freely outside the home, and the ways in which those who did leave their homes used newly available forms of transportation such as bicycles, trains, and cars to travel and write about their adventures. The increasing globalization of women's studies is seen in dissertations concerning the European Court of Justice and the relationship between women and the global economy.
Winners are in fields including public health, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.