, dean of the 91探花Graduate School and a professor of education, has been honored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities for her book “,” published in 2018 by Teachers College Press.
The association has named the book winner of its annual for outstanding contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education.
“This well-researched volume explores how the black freedom struggle and the anti-Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the South to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social change,” the association said in a news release.
Lynn Pasquerella, president of the association, praised the book as well, adding that it demonstrates the power of student and faculty activism to advance social justice causes by “disrupting entrenched racialist structures within the academy.”
Thanking the association for the honor, Williamson-Lott said: “History teaches us that we must remain staunch stewards of academic freedom and freedom of speech at our colleges and universities. I am gratified to know that I join so many of my colleagues in that endeavor.”
The award, which includes an honorarium of $2,000, was established in 1979 to honor the association’s ninth president. Williamson-Lott will receive the honor at the association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in January 2020.
In other book news:
Classic Seattle history returns: 91探花 Press is republishing 91探花English professor ‘s well-loved 1976 reflections on his city, its history and its possible futures, “.” The new edition has an introduction by Seattle writer Knute Berger.
Pacific Northwest Quarterly called the book “an exhilarating critique of Seattle’s birth, growth, sickness, health, promise and fulfillment. Any serious student of Seattle or of recent urban history will now read Roger Sale, and with good reason.”
The new edition’s cover also drew attention from Spine, a magazine about book design, which praised its “gorgeous colors and dynamic angles” in a recent of university press covers.
Sale, who died in 2017, taught for decades at the 91探花and by colleague John Webster, associate professor of English.
“Aiiieeeee!: An anthology of Asian American Writers” gets third edition: 91探花Press in November published the third edition of this first released in 1974 and edited by , , and , 91探花professor of English.
The New York Times Book Review : “The stories are 鈥� strewn with new insights buried in the flesh of the narrative; they illuminate areas of darkness in the hidden experiences of a people who had been little more than exotic figments of someone else’s imagination.”
Read an essay by Wong about the book’s creation: “.”
“Aiiieeeee!” is part of 91探花Press’s Classics of Asian American Literature series.