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The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars
Nominations due June 30, and we’re also in need of donations to support the life of the Award
Call for Nominations:
We are delighted to accept nominations and self-nominations for the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars. Hosted by the American Studies Association and designed to reflect Anzaldúa’s status as an independent scholar as well as her groundbreaking contributions to women-of-color studies and queer theory, this award includes a lifetime membership to the ASA, five years of access to the electronic library resources at the University of Texas at Austin, a lifetime electronic subscription to American Quarterly, a fully-funded trip to the ASA October conference in the year of the award, and $300. To nominate (or self-nominate) a candidate for the award, submit a one- to two-page letter and supporting materials (including a CV) that demonstrate the candidate’s transformative feminist contributions to women-of-color studies and queer theory, particularly as these contributions intersect with American Studies. For more information, potential nominators may contact the Selection Committee Chair, AnaLouise Keating. One set of nominating materials must be sent to each of the following Selection Committee members no later than June 30, 2008.
AnaLouise Keating
Women’s Studies
Texas Woman’s University
PO Box 425557
Denton, TX 76204-5557
akeating@twu.edu
Jennifer Williams
Department of English
Michigan State University
1310 Westview Ave 241 A
East Lansing, MI 48823
will1881@msu.edu
Norma Cantu
Department of English
University of Texas, San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
norma.cantu@utsa.edu
Award Criteria:
The award winner cannot be a full-time faculty member or a full-time student. (Although, in keeping with Anzaldúa’s own intermittent academic status, s/he might be an adjunct instructor and/or intermittent student.)
* The award winner does not need to be identified as a woman of color, but her/his work should make (or be designed to make) a transformative impact on women-of-color studies.
* “Women-of-color studies” is defined broadly to include issues of gender, ‘race’/ethnicity, sexuality, health/ability, as well as other variables. “Queer theory” is defined broadly to include more than sexuality and also to intersect with LGBT studies.
* Ideally, the award winner will be active (whether through art, scholarship, and/or community work) in promoting and attempting to enact social change.
Supporting the Award:
The Anzaldúa Award is still in its initial stages and requires additional funds to be sustainable. To donate make checks payable to the American Studies Association and send to The Anzaldúa Fund c/o American Studies Association, 1120 19th Street, NW, #301, Washington, DC 20036, or visit www.theasa.net/prizes_and_grants/pages/anzaldua_award_for_independent_scholars.
The award is made possible with support from individual and departmental donations, the American Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, the Women’s Committee of the American Studies Association, and the American Studies Association. The Women’s Committee of the American Studies Association coordinates the award.
Women’s Committee Vision Statement
The Women’s Committee is committed to creating coalitions between feminist, queer, anti-racist, transnational, working-class, and dis/ability studies scholarship and organizing within (and occasionally outside) the ASA. The Women’s Committee carries out advocacy, theory, and praxis through membership recruitment and placement, selection of co-chairs, program planning, coalition building, and involvement in the administration of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars. In the process and content of these activities, the Women’s Committee explores and practices possibilities for anti-racist feminist organizing by attending to intersecting identities of gender, race, geographic location, sexuality, class, and dis/ability. Attending to these intersections, the Women’s Committee seeks to make space at the association for discussions about anti-racist feminist scholarship and strategies.
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