Elizabeth Sharrow Receives National Recognition for Book on the Legacy of Title IX

Elizabeth Sharrow, associate professor of public policy and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has recently received the 2024 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for her book, Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association in recognition of the best new book on the field of United States national policy.

Equality Unfulfilled discusses how Title IX has impacted higher education over the past 50 years. Dr Sharrow and her co-author, James Druckman, professor at the University of Rochester in New York, argue that sex-based inequalities in college athletics still persist today because of institutional roadblocks that undermine efforts to achieve systemic change. The book features experiences and opinions on gender equity from student-athletes, coaches, college administrators, and members of the public.

Dr. Sharrow first joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty in 2013 as an assistant professor of political science and history. In addition to her teaching position, she serves as director of faculty research in the Institute of Social Science Research. Her research endeavors center around the politics of public policy and how federal policies have shaped the understandings of sex, gender, sexuality, disability, and class.

A four-time graduate of the University of Minnesota, Dr. Sharrow holds a bachelor’s degree in political science; a master of public policy degree in gender, law, and public policy; a master’s degree in political science; and a Ph.D. in political science and feminist and critical sexuality studies.