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Rutgers University Scholar Wins National Book Award
Ruth Feldstein, an associate professor of history at the Newark, New Jersey campus of Rutgers University, has been selected to receive the National Book Award for 2013 from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis.
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.
Women Co-Authors Win Two Awards for Their Book Woman President
Kristina Horn Sheeler is associate professor and chair of the department of communication studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and Karrin Vasby Anderson is a professor of communication studies at Colorado State University.
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 Honored by the American Public Health Association
Ellen G. Spears, assistant professor in the department of American studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, is being honored for her book on the long history of chemical pollution in Anniston, Alabama.
Emily Raboteau of City College of New York Wins the American Book Award
Professor Raboteau is being honored for her work of creative nonfiction in which she describes her 10-year journey through Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana, and the American South to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of Black Zionists.
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.
Katheryn Lee Johnson Shares the Lillian Smith Book Award
Katheryn Lee Johnson, an adjunct professor of teacher education who supervises the student teacher program at the University of Rhode Island, is sharing the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Award with her co-author Bernard Lafayette Jr. for their book on the Selma, Alabama, voting rights protests.
Syracuse University Scholar Wins Book Award From the Gerontological Society of America
Madonna Harrington Meyer, he Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and chair of the department of sociology at Syracuse University, is being honored for her book Grandmothers at Work: Juggling Families and Jobs.
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.
British Woman Is One of Three Finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Camilla Cowling, an assistant professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick in England. Dr. Cowling is being honored for her book Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro.
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.
Two Women Academics Honored With PEN Open Book Awards
Nina McConigley, a lecturer at the University of Wyoming, and Ruth Ellen Kocher is a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, have been named winners of the PEN Open Book Award.
University of Maryland Scholar Wins Book Award
Pamela Gerhardt, who teaches advanced persuasive writing and narrative nonfiction in the Professional Writing Program at the University of Maryland, received the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
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.
The New Director of the University of Massachusetts Press
Since 2006, Dr. Mary V. Dougherty has been the publisher for works of history at Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. Earlier in her career, she was an editor and college sales representative for Houghton Mifflin.
Emma Sepulveda of the University of Nevada Wins International Latino Book Award
Born in Argentina and raised in Chile, Dr. Sepulveda came to the United States in 1974. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Nevada and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis.
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.
Jennifer Crewe Is the New President and Director of Columbia University Press
Jennifer Crewe, who has served on the staff at Columbia University Press for 30 years, most recently as interim director, was named president and director. She is the first woman director of a university press at an Ivy League institution.
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.
Bowdoin College Receives Collection of Book Cover Art Designed by Sarah Wyman Whitman
Sarah Wyman Whitman began to design book covers in the 1880s for Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin. She had 380 book covers to her credit including works by Henry David Thoreau, Sarah Jewett and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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.
Oklahoma State Professor Emerita Wins Award for the Best Biography of 2013
Linda Leavell, professor emerita of English at Oklahoma State University, was awarded the Plutarch Award from the Biographers International Organization (BIO) for her book Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore.
Two Women Professors Win the Griffin Poetry Prize
Two women were award the Griffin Poetry Prize from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. The trust awards two $65,000 prizes, one to a Canadian-born poet and one to a poet who is not Canadian. This year’s winners are Anne Carson and Brenda Hillman.
Nalo Hopkinson Receives Book Award for Young Adult Science Fiction
Nalo Hopkinson, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, is the recipient of the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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.
Kathryn Shively Meier Wins the 2014 Wiley-Silver Book Prize
The assistant professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond won the award for the best debut book on the history of the Civil War from the Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi.
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.
