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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.

Erica Edwards of the University of California Riverside Wins Prestigious Book Prize

Erica Edwards of the University of California Riverside Wins Prestigious Book Prize

Erica Edwards, an associate professor of English, has been awarded the prestigious Williams Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association for her book Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership.

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.

Mary Szybist Wins National Book Award

Mary Szybist Wins National Book Award

Mary Szybist, an associate professor of English at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, received the National Book Award for poetry. She was honored for her poetry collection Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013).

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.

Four Women Scholars Win Book Awards

Four Women Scholars Win Book Awards

The book award winners are Beth Plummer of Western Kentucky University, Teresa Bergman of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, and Jocelyn Boryczka and Elizabeth Petrino of Fairfield University in Connecticut.

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.

University of Arkansas-Little Rock Historian Wins Book Award

University of Arkansas-Little Rock Historian Wins Book Award

Susanah Shaw Romney, a professor of history at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was honored by the New Netherland Society for the best book exploring the Dutch influence on North America prior to the American Revolution.

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.

Iowa Writers' Workshop Alumna Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize

Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumna Wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize

At 28, Eleanor Catton is the youngest writer to win the Man Booker Prize in its 45-year history. The prize is bestowed on what the judges consider the best work of fiction written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

Duke Professor Chosen for Book Award in Polish Studies

Duke Professor Chosen for Book Award in Polish Studies

Beth Holmgren, chair of the department of Slavic and Eurasian studies at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, will be honored in November at the annual convention of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies in Boston.

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 Nominated for National Book Awards in Nonfiction

Two Women Academics Nominated for National Book Awards in Nonfiction

Five finalists have been announced for the National Book Award in nonfiction. Of the five nominees, two are women. Both women, Jill Lepore and Wendy Lower, have ties to academia. The winner will be announced on November 20.

Pomona College Scholar Wins Book Award

Pomona College Scholar Wins Book Award

Kyla Tompkins, an associate professor of English and gender and women’s studies at Pomona College in Claremont, California, received the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association.

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.

Merryl Alber Named Director of the University of Georgia Marine Institute at Sapelo Island

Merryl Alber Named Director of the University of Georgia Marine Institute at Sapelo Island

As director of the Marine Institute, Dr. Alber will spend one week each month at Sapelo Island and the remainder of her time at the University of Georgia’s main campus in Athens, where she is a professor of marine sciences.

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.

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.

Smith College Receives the Literary Papers of Author Ann M. Martin

Smith College Receives the Literary Papers of Author Ann M. Martin

Martin is the creator of The Baby-sitters Club, a series of novels between 1986 and 2000, that sold 170 million copies. Overall there were 213 novels in the series. Martin wrote at least 60 of the books herself and the others had ghost writers.

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 Nursing Deans Win Book Award

Two Nursing Deans Win Book Award

Dorrie K. Fontaine of the University of Virginia and Patricia Gonce Morton of the University of Utah are being honored by Sigma Theta Tau International, the world’s oldest nursing honorary society, for their 2012 textbook on critical care nursing .

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.

University of Rochester's Lynda Powell Wins Book Prize

University of Rochester’s Lynda Powell Wins Book Prize

Lynda Powell, professor of political science at the University of Rochester, has been chosen to receive the 2013 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize, named for a leading scholar of American politics who also taught at the University of Rochester.

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.

Gillian Berchowitz Is the New Leader of the Ohio University Press

Gillian Berchowitz Is the New Leader of the Ohio University Press

The Ohio University Press is the largest scholarly press in the state of Ohio. With a staff of 12, it publishes 50 titles a year and generates more than $1 million dollars in annual book sales.