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Marshall University Scholar to Receive Book Award

Marshall University Scholar to Receive Book Award

Kristi M. Fondren, an associate professor of sociology at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, was named the winner of the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Award for Excellence in Recreation and Park Research.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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.

Leila Kawar Wins Best Book Award From the Law and Society Association

Leila Kawar Wins Best Book Award From the Law and Society Association

Leila Kawar, an assistant professor of legal studies in the department of political science at the University of Massachusetts, received the Herbert Jacob Book Prize at the annual convention of the Law and Society Association in New Orleans.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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 Historians Honored With Book Awards

Two Women Historians Honored With Book Awards

Laura Ackerman Smoller, professor of history at the University of Rochester in New York and Christine Leigh Heyrman is the Robert W. and Shirley P. Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. Both scholars were honored for their recent books.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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

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.

History Professor Wins Three Awards for Her Latest Book

History Professor Wins Three Awards for Her Latest Book

Nancy Woloch, who teaches history at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City, has won three awards for her latest book A Class By Herself: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890-1990s.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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.

Vittoria Di Palma Wins a Book Award From the Society of Architectural Historians

Vittoria Di Palma Wins a Book Award From the Society of Architectural Historians

Vittoria Di Palma is an associate professor of the history and theory of architecture in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She was honored for her book Wasteland: A History.

Law Professor Wins Book Award from the Law and Society Association

Law Professor Wins Book Award from the Law and Society Association

Felice Batlan is a professor of law and the associate dean for faculty at the Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She was honored for her book Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863-1945.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Barbara Miller Lane Wins Two Awards for Her Latest Book

Barbara Miller Lane Wins Two Awards for Her Latest Book

Barbara Miller Lane, the Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Emerita at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, is being honored by the Philadelphia Athenaeum and the Association of American Publishers. Professor Lane joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr in 1962.

West Virginia University Scholar Honored by the Organization of American Historians

West Virginia University Scholar Honored by the Organization of American Historians

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, a professor of history in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia, won the 2016 David Montgomery Award for the best book on American labor or working-class history.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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 Scholars to Receive Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Two Women Scholars to Receive Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize works that make important contributions to our understanding of racism and cultural diversity. Among this year’s winners are Mary Morris a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Lillian Faderman, professor emerita at California State University, Fresno.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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 Scholars From the University of Wisconsin Win Book Award

Two Women Scholars From the University of Wisconsin Win Book Award

The winners of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association are Diana E. Hess, dean of the School of Education and Paula McAvoy, program director of the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Three Women Scholars Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

Three Women Scholars Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

The winners of the prestigious awards include Charlotte Gordon of Endicott College in the biography category, Margo Jefferson of Columbia University and The New School in the autobiography category, and Maggie Nelson of the California Institute of the Arts in the criticism category.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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 Scholars Awarded the Bancroft Prize

Two Women Scholars Awarded the Bancroft Prize

The award recognizes outstanding scholarship in American history. The two women among this year’s three honorees are Mary Sarah Bilder, a professor at Boston College Law School, and Deborah A. Rosen, the David M. ’70 and Linda Roth Professor of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Angie Maxwell Wins Two Awards for Her Book <em>The Indicted South</em>

Angie Maxwell Wins Two Awards for Her Book The Indicted South

Angie Maxwell, the Blair Professor of Southern Studies and associate professor of political science at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, was honored by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature and the Southern Political Science Association.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Mills College Professor Brinda Mehta Wins Book of the Year Award

Mills College Professor Brinda Mehta Wins Book of the Year Award

Brinda J. Mehta, a professor of French and Francophone studies at Mills College in Oakland, California, was selected as the recipient of the 2016 Book of the Year Award from the African Literature Association for her analysis of the dissident writings of Arab women.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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 Academics Are Finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Two Women Academics Are Finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

Julie Iromuanya is an assistant professor of English and Africana literature at Arizona State University and Elizabeth Tallent is a professor of literature and creative writing at Stanford University in California. They are among five finalists for the prestigious award that will given out on May 14.

Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

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.