Women’s Studies Faculty Receive Awards for Creative Scholarship
The LSA-OVPR Michigan Humanities Awards (MHA) are presented annually to tenured, full-time faculty members engaged in major scholarly and creative projects in relevant fields. The MHA is a highly competitive program that awards a faculty member a term free of teaching to develop a research project.
Congratulations to the Women’s Studies faculty who are recipients of these awards:
Elizabeth Anderson, John Rawls Collegiate Professor of Philosophy
and Professor of Women’s Studies: “The Imperative of Integration:
Beyond Multiculturalism and Group-Blindness.” Anderson plans to write
a book defending the ideal of integration by linking it to a reconceptualization
of democracy inspired by the work of John Dewey.
Dena Goodman, Professor of History and Women’s Studies: “Putting
Pen to Paper: Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters.” Goodman plans
to complete a book that will illuminate the lives of women and the importance
of writing at an historical moment—France in the second half of the 18th
century—when modern notions of identity were beginning to emerge.
Anne Herrmann, Professor of English and Women’s Studies: “Stranded
Among Strangers: Writing(s) from the Fifth Switzerland.” Herrmann will
use her time to develop an innovative hybrid project of creative nonfiction
that explores the unique status of the nation of Switzerland and its particular
fictions of citizenship.
June Howard, Professor of English, American Culture, and
Women’s Studies: “Local Stories, National Literature, Global Circuits.” Howard
intends to complete a book that combines literary history with a rich interdisciplinary
account of notions of place in American literature.
Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Associate Professor of Romance Languages
and Literatures and Women’s Studies: “Galicia’s Boundaries:
Literary Tradition and the Politics of Regionalism.” Moreiras-Menor
will complete a book that challenges governing concepts of national and regional
literary canons by focusing on the cultural identity of Galicia, Spain.
