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Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Deborah Miranda Wins IPPY Award for Her Book on California Indians

Deborah Miranda Wins IPPY Award for Her Book on California Indians

Deborah A. Miranda, professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has won the gold medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for autobiography/memoir in the family legacy category.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Wendy Bellion's Book Honored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wendy Bellion’s Book Honored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Wendy Bellion, associate professor of history at the University of Delaware, received the 2014 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She will give the Eldredge Prize lecture this fall at the museum.

Arizona State University Professor Wins Book Award

Arizona State University Professor Wins Book Award

Jewell Parker Rhodes, who holds the Piper Endowed Chair and is a professor of English at Arizona State University, received the 2014 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award in the books for older children category.

 Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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.

Lilly Goren, a Political Science Scholar at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Wins Book Award

Lilly Goren, a Political Science Scholar at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Wins Book Award

Lilly J. Goren, a professor of political science and global studies at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin, is sharing the 2014 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies for her book Women and the White House.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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.

Emerson College Scholar Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Biography

Emerson College Scholar Wins the Pulitzer Prize in Biography

Megan Marshall, an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, has won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of nineteenth-century author of women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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

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 Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

Two Women Academics Win National Book Critics Circle Awards

Amy Wilentz of the University of California at Irvine won in the autobiography category and Sheri Fink of the Havard Humanitarian Initiative won in the nonfiction category.

Stanford University Scholar Wins Two Awards for Debut Fiction

Stanford University Scholar Wins Two Awards for Debut Fiction

Bulawayo, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, is a native of Zimbabwe. She won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the Etisalat Prize for her book We Need New Names.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Virginia Tech Professor Wins Book Award

Virginia Tech Professor Wins Book Award

Joyce A. Arditti, professor of human development, has been selected to receive the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for her book on the effects of parental incarceration on families.

Two Women Are Winners of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Awards

Two Women Are Winners of the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Awards

Heather A. Slomski held the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville and taught English at Concordia College and Kathleen Founds in an instructor in English at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, California.

 Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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 Academics Named Finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards

Women Academics Named Finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards

Among the 30 finalists are books by 15 women. Nine of the 15 women finalists have affiliations with higher education in the United States.

Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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 Are Finalists for The Story Prize

Two Women Academics Are Finalists for The Story Prize

Andrea Barrett of Williams College in Massachusetts and Rebecca Lee of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington are two of the three finalists for the prize for the best collection of short stories published in 2013.

Virginia Tech Trio Win an Award from the Housing Education and Research Association

Virginia Tech Trio Win an Award from the Housing Education and Research Association

Julia Beamich and Kathleen Parrott are professors in the department of apparel, housing, and resource management and JoAnn Emmel is an associate professor emerita. They were honored for their books on kitchen and bath planning.

 Recent Books That May Be of Interest to Women Scholars

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

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

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

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.

Three Academic Women Awarded Book Prizes

Three Academic Women Awarded Book Prizes

The honorees are Brigid Cohen of New York University, Elizabeth Harris of the University of North Dakota, and Kathleen Parthe of the University of Rochester.