The Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Northampton, MA — Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism announces the awardees of the 2024 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award.
The Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award seeks to honor an author whose work embodies the groundbreaking nature and innovative spirit of Paula’s writing. We aim for this award to highlight different forms of knowledge production that engage scholarship, journalism, activism, and cultural work, among others, from each published volume of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.
The Paula J. Giddings Award winners are chosen each year by the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Editorial Advisory Board (EAB). Together with Meridians Editor Ginetta E.B. Candelario, EAB members are Carol Bailey, Ibtissam Bouachrine, Jennifer DeClue, Banu Gokariksel, Pinky Hota, Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Ranjana Khanna, Heidi Kim, Lili M. Kim, Kimberly Kono, Daphne Lamothe, Adriane D. Lentz-Smith, Lucy Mule, Asha Nadkarni, Jocelyn Olcott, Sarah Quesada, Vanessa Rosa and Ara Wilson.
The honorable mention winner of the 2024 Paula J. Gidding Best Article Award for Meridians Volume 22 goes to Grace L. Sanders Johnson for their essay “Picturing Herself in Africa: Haiti, Diaspora, and the Visual Folkloric.”
Grace L. Sanders Johnson is associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in history and women’s studies at the University of Michigan where she specialized in modern Caribbean and Latin American history, transnational feminisms, oral history, and African diasporic studies.
Meridians will be celebrating Grace L. Sanders Johnson and our other 2024 PJG Award honoree at The Meridians Project roundtable at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) 2024 annual meeting held November 14-17, 2024, in Detroit, MI.
Read her article here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/meridians/article-abstract/22/2/348/382327/P...