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New York University Historian Martha Hodes Wins the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Professor Martha Hodes is being honored for her book Mourning Lincoln which examines how ordinary Americans – Black and White, northerners and southerners – reacted to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
Two Women Scholars Share an Award for the Best Book in Feminist Studies in Popular Culture
Cari Carpenter, associate professor of English at West Virginia University and Carolyn Sorisio, professor of English at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, share an award for their edited volume on Sarah Winnemucca, author and activist for American Indian rights.
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 American Women Among the Seven Finalists for the George Washington Prize
The $50,000 prize recognizes the best book on the nation’s founding era. Among the authors who are finalists for the award are Mary Sarah Bilder of the Boston College Law School, Kathleen Duval of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Janet Polasky of the University of New Hampshire.
Florida State University Musicologist Wins Book Award
Denise Von Glahn, professor of musicology and director of the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University in Tallahassee, won the Pauline Alderman Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music.
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.
Williams College Scholar Wins Best Book in Literacy Criticism Award
Dorothy J. Wang is an associate professor of American studies at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is being honored by the Association for Asian American Studies for her book on contemporary Asian American poetry.
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 Are Finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
The award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is given annually to a mid-career poet. The winner will be announced in March and honored at a ceremony on April 7. The two women among the five finalists are Amy Gerstler of the University of California, Irvine and Jennifer Moxley of the University of Maine.
Law Professor at Florida State University Wins Book Award
Mary Ziegler, the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor in the College of Law at Florida State University, has been awarded the Thomas J. Miller Memorial Prize from the Board of Syndics of Harvard University 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.
American Woman Academics Named Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are given out in six categories with five finalists in each category. Several of the finalists are women who currently hold academic posts at American colleges and universities.
Recent Books That May Be 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 That May Be 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.
Northwestern University Art History Scholar Wins Book Award
Krista A. Thompson, the holder of the Weinberg College Board of Advisers Chair in the department of art history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has been selected to receive the the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association.
Recent Books That May Be 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 American Women Scholars to Receive Lautenschlaeger Awards
The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise is awarded to 10 scholars from around the world each year for outstanding scholarship on God or spirituality. Two of this year’s 10 winners are American women: Alison L. Joseph of Towson University and Brittany E. Wilson of Duke Divinity School.
Recent Books That May Be 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 That May Be 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.
Colgate University Scholar Honored by the Conference on Latin American History
Heather Roller, an assistant professor of history at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, was honored for her book on the Amazon River region in Brazil during the eighteenth century.
Recent Books That May Be 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 That May Be 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, Santa Barbara Historian Earns Two Book Awards
Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won awards from the American Studies Association and the National Women’s Studies Association for her book A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography.
Recent Books That May Be 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.
Proceeds From a New Book on Sweet Briar College Are Earmarked to Help the College Financially
A new book offers a photographic account of the history of the campus of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Proceeds from the book will be donated back to the college in an effort to shore up the financial position of the educational institution.
Johns Hopkins University Scholars Share the 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Education
The award is being shared by three scholars including the late Doris Entwisle, who was a research professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins, and Linda Olson, who recently retired as an associate research scientist at the university’s Center for Social Organization of Schools.
Recent Books That May Be 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 That May Be 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 That May Be 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.
New York University’s Ada Ferrer to Be Awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
She is a professor of history and professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University. Professor Ferrer will receive the $25,000 prize for the best book of the year on slavery or abolition at ceremonies in New York this coming February.
Recent Books That May Be 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.
Laila Lalami Wins Another Honor for Her Novel The Moor’s Account
Laila Lalami, a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has won the 2015 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Fiction presented by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Clark University Professor Honored With Two Awards for Her Book on Russian Politics
Valerie Sperling, professor and chair of the department of political science at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, was honored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and the Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
Recent Books That May Be 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.
