All Entries in the "Books" Category
Three Women Are Finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Among the five finalists are Lucie Brock-Broido of Columbia University, Angie Estes of Ashland University in Ohio, and Laura Kasischke of the University of Michigan.
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.
LeAnne Howe Named the Inaugural Winner of the Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures
LeAnne Howe is the Eidson Distinguished Professor American Literature at the University of Georgia. She is being honored by the Modern Language Association for her book Choctalking on Other Realities.
Western Carolina University’s Catherine Carter Honored for Her Poetry
Catherine Carter, an associate professor of English at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, won the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest for her collection of poetry entitled Marks of the Witch.
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.
Patricia Smith Wins a Biennial Award from the Library of Congress
Patricia Smith, an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island in New York, is being honored for her collection of poetry that examines the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities.
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.
Yale Scholar Honored by the Vergilian Society
Irene Peirano Garrison, associate professor of the Classics at Yale University, has received the 2015 Alexander G. McKay Prize for Vergilian Studies from the Vergilian Society for her book The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake.
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 New Mexico Scholar to Be Honored by the Modern Language Association
Carmen Nocentelli, associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature Studies for her book Empires of Love.
Scripps College Anthropologist Shares the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Lara Deeb is a professor of anthropology at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Dr. Deeb will share the award with her co-author Mona Harb, a professor at the American University of Beirut.
Deborah Levenson Wins Best Book Prize in Latin American Studies
Professor Levenson is a professor of history at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She was honored by the New England Council of Latin American Studies for her book Adios Nino: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death.
Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars
Still need some suggestions for your holiday shopping list? Some of these new books might fit the bill.
Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars
Still need some suggestions for your holiday shopping list? Some of these new books might fit the bill.
Yale University’s Louise Gluck Wins National Book Award
Louise Gluck, an adjunct professor of English and the Rosenkrantz Writer in Residence at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, received the National Book Award in poetry. She is a previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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 Book Explores the History of the First Women’s College in Kansas
The story of the first women’s college in Kansas is detailed in the new book Marymount College of Kansas: A History (The History Press, 2014). It is authored by Pat E. Ackerman, an associate professor of language arts and graduate director at Kansas State University-Salina.
Jennine Capo Crucet to Receive the 2015 Hillsdale Award for Fiction
Jennine Capo Crucet, an assistant professor of creative writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, will be honored with the 2015 Hillsdale Award for Fiction at the Celebration of Southern Literature in Chattanooga, Tennesse, this coming April.
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.
Four Scholars Honored by the Southern Association for Women Historians
The honorees are Tanisha C. Ford of the University of Massachusetts, Carole Emberton of the University at Buffalo in New York, Katy Simpson Smith of Tulane University in New Orleans, and Shannon Frystak of East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.
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 Alabama Scholar Wins Book Award
Ellen Griffith Spears, an assistant professor in New College and the department of American studies at the University of Alabama is being honored by the medical care section of the American Public Health Association for her book on environmental racism.
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.
Nina McConigley Wins the High Plains Book Award
Nina McConigley, a lecturer in English at the University of Wyoming, received the Best Short Stories Award in the High Plains Book Award Competition sponsored by the Billings Public Library in Montana.
Carmen Nocentelli Wins the Roland H. Bainton Prize in Literature
Carmen Nocentelli, associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of New Mexico, was honored by the Sixteenth Century Society for the best new book on the 1450-1660 period.
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.
Toni Morrison’s Papers to Be Housed at Princeton University
The archives of the Nobel laureate and professor emerita consist of about 180 linear feet of papers that include correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, proofs, diaries, course materials, lectures, notes, and photographs.
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.
Western Kentucky University Scholar Honored by the American Folklore Society
Ann K. Ferrell, an assistant professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, has been named the recipient of the 2014 Wayland D. Hand Prize for the outstanding book on historical and folkloristic perspectives from the American Folklore Society.
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 Book Explores the History of Women in Academic Engineering
Amy Sue Bix, an associate professor of history at Iowa State University, documents why women were initially excluded from academic engineering and offers an account of the pioneers who made inroads into the field.
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.
