University of Illinois Professor Named Book Prize Winner
CHICAGO
Sharon Holland, associate professor of English and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero First Book Prize for her book, Raising The Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2000).
The award is presented annually to a first-time published author in American Studies whose book best highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation.