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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Fordham University Scholar Wins Book Award
Shonni Enelow, an assistant professor of English at Fordham University in New York, has been selected to receive the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her book on method acting.
Dartmouth College Scholar to Receive the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Vievee Francis, an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, will be honored in April at a ceremony at Claremont Graduate University in California. The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, honors a mid-career poet.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Stanford University’s Anna Grzymala-Busse Wins the $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize
The award is given out by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana for the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Two Women Professors Earn Seven Sisters Book Awards
The Seven Sisters Book Awards were established in 2015 by author Lynne Hinton to honor women writers. Among this year’s four winners are Jacqueline Allen Trimble chair of the department of languages and literatures at Alabama State University and Kathy Giuffre, a professor of sociology at Colorado College.
Hunter College Scholar Wins the 2016 University of Maryland-Phillips Collection Book Prize
Lynda Klich, an assistant professor in the department of art and art history at Hunter College, won the award for her manuscript entitled The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico (1921-1927). The book will be published by the University of California Press.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Yale University Art Historian Wins Book Award
Kishwar Rizvi, associate professor in the history of art at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, received the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association. Dr. Rizvi joined the faculty at Yale in 2006 and was promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in 2012.
More Accolades for the Books of Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford, a professor of English at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, has been selected to receive the Randolph Caldecott Honor and the Coretta Scott King Book Award from the American Library Association.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Emory University Scholar Wins National Jewish Book Award
Miriam Udel, an associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture in the department of German studies at Emory University in Atlanta, received the Dorot Foundation Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience from the Jewish Book Council.
Crystal Wilkinson Wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
Crystal Wilkinson, the Appalachian Writer-in-Residence at Berea College in Kentucky, has won the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence presented by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation. Wilkinson was honored for her novel Birds of Opulence.
University of Washington Scholar Earns Book Award for Study of Dance in East Java
Christina Sunardi, an associate professor of musicology at the University of Washington, received the Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society. Dr. Sunardi holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2008.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Anne Lambright Wins Book Award From the Modern Language Association
Anne Lambright, the Charles A. Dana Research Professor of Language and Culture Studies and dean of academic affairs at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is the winner of the 26th annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association.
Seattle Pacific University Scholar Wins Fiction Book Award
Suzanne M. Wolfe, writer-in-residence at Seattle Pacific University, received the 2017 Book Award in the fiction category from the magazine Christianity Today. In addition to her teaching duties at the university, Wolfe is the executive editor of the Seattle-based literary journal Image.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
University of Rochester Scholar Wins Prize for Best First Book
Supritha Rajan, an associate professor of English at the University of Rochester in New York, was recently honored at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia for her book on nineteenth-century economics in Britain.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Barnard College Political Scientist Wins Best Book Award From the International Studies Association
Severine Autesserre is an associate professor of political science at Barnard College in New York City. Her award-winning book is based on the author’s extensive field work in the Democratic Republic of Congo and briefer comparative research in Burundi, Cyprus, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
University of California, Riverside Scholar Honored With a Book Award
Anthea Kraut, professor of dance at the University of California Riverside, will receive the 2015-16 Emory Elliott Book Award that honors a book published by a faculty member in the College of Humanities at the university.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Caroline Levine of Cornell University Wins a Book Award From the Modern Language Association
Professor Levine will receive the 47th annual James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. The award is given to the author of an outstanding book; either a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
When completing your holiday shopping, here are some books you might want to consider for friends, family, or colleagues.
Cornell Professor Wins Book Award From the Modern Language Association
Marilyn Migiel, professor of Romance studies and senior associate dean for arts and humanities at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was selected to receive a prize for the the best book in the field of Italian literature or comparative literature involving the Italian language.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
When completing your holiday shopping, here are some books you might want to consider for friends, family, or colleagues.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Scholar Wins Best Book Award
Nancy Rankie Shelton, a professor of education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, received the 2016 Best Book Award for the memoir of her 35-year relationship with her husband and their six-month battle against her husband’s lung cancer.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
University of Iowa Faculty Use Literature to Teach Young Girls to Be Strong
The College of Education at the University of Iowa has launched Strong Girls, an after-school program for elementary school girls designed to teach young girls to be strong through the use of literature.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Woman Scholar Earns Award for Best Book on Southern History
Alison Collis Greene, an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, has been chosen as the winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award from the Southern Historical Association.
