Three Women Professors Win Awards for Their Recent Books

Three women scholars have won awards for their recent books.

• Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi, received the Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society, which honors anthropological scholarship on the South or southerners. Professor Ethridge was honored for her book, From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 (University of North Carolina Press).

Professor Ethridge has taught at Ole Miss since 1997. She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in anthropology, all from the University of Georgia.

• Cathleen D. Cahill, an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico has won the American Indian National Book Award from the Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University. Professor Cahill was honored for her book, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the U.S. Indian Service, 1869-1933 (University of North Carolina Press).

Dr. Cahill is a graduate of the University of California at Davis. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago. She joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 2004.

• Maurie McInnis, a professor of art history at the University of Virginia received the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She was honored for her book, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade (University of Chicago Press).

Professor McInnis is a graduate of the University of Virginia. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 by Robbie Ethridge (University of North Carolina Press)

Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the U.S. Indian Service, 1869-1933 by Cathleen D. Cahill (University of North Carolina Press)

Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade by Maurie McInnis (University of Chicago Press)