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Texas A&M Scholar Wins Book Award
Cara Wallis, an assistant professor in the department of communication at Texas A&M University, received the James W. Carey Media Research Award for her book on mobile telephone usage by young women in China.
New Book Explores the Role of Gender in the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
A new book by Brenda Stevenson, a professor of history at UCLA, makes the argument that gender issues played a major role in leading up to the 1992 Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of police offices in the Rodney King case.
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 Queen of Suspense Endows a Chair in Creative Writing at Fordham University
Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark has made a $2 million contribution to create the Mary Higgins Clark Chair in Creative Writing at Fordham University in The Bronx, New York. She has written 42 books that have sold 100 million copies in the United States.
University of Connecticut President Wins Book Award
Susan Herbst is the recipient of the 2013 Doris Graber Book Award from the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association. The award is given for the best book over the past 10 years in the field of political communication.
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, Riverside Faculty Member Wins Book Award from the Western Writers of America
Deanne Stillman, a member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside-Palm Desert Low Residency Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, was won the 2013 Spur Award in the nonfiction category for a book on the 2005 murder of a Los Angeles County deputy sheriff.
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.
DePauw University Scholar Shares Book Award With Her Husband
Nancy J. Davis was awarded the gold medal in the religion category of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards for the book, Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare.
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 Book Explores the Impact of Children on Academic Careers
The book examines how children affect the careers of men and women in the academic world at every level from graduate students to those facing retirement. And the bottom line is that babies have a negative impact on women’s careers.
Princeton University’s A.M. Homes Wins the Women’s Prize for Fiction
A.M. Homes, a lecturer in the creative writing program at Princeton University, was named the winner of Women’s Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Orange Prize. Homes is the fifth American in a row to win the prize, which comes with a cash award of £30,000.
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.
Seven Finalists for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes
Each year, the group gives out awards for the best first books and best articles written by women who reside in North America. Of the seven finalists, Adria Imada and Francoise Hamlin were named winners.
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.
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.
University of Massachusetts Scholar Wins Poetry Award
Sandra Lim, an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize.
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 Art Historian Wins Book Prize
Milette Gaifman, associate professor of the history of art and classics at Yale University, has been awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area 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.
University of California Irvine Scholar Is the First Winner of New Book Award
Bridget R. Cooks is the inaugural winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History. The award is presented by the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland-College Park.
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 Scholar Wins Award for Book on North Korea
Suk-Young Kim, a professor of theater arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has won the James Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
Kansas State Professor Wins Book Award from the Interior Design Educators Council
Katherine Ankerson, professor and chair of the department of interior architecture and product design, is the second scholar in a row from Kansas State University to win the book 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.
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.
Kudos for Book by University of Memphis’ Kristen Iversen
The director of the master of fine arts program in creative writing at the University of Memphis has won numerous awards for her book on growing up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado.
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 Women Are Among the Inaugural Winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes
The $150,000 prizes are awarded by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University for outstanding achievement in fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
University of Kentucky Historian Lien-Hang Nguyen Wins Book Award
Associate professor Lien-Hang Nguyen has been selected to receive the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for her book on the Vietnam War.
