Congratulations, Dr. Barbara Ransby, The Angela Y. Davis Award Recipient for Public Scholarship
Historian, writer, long time political activist and Woods Fund Chicago board member Dr. Barbara Ransby was recently selected as the recipient of the American Studies Association’s 2018 Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship.
The Angela Y. Davis Award for Public Scholarship recognizes scholars who have applied or used their scholarship for the “public good.” This includes work that explicitly aims to educate the lay public, influence policies, or in other ways seeks to address inequalities in imaginative, practical, and applicable forms. The 2018 prizewinner is Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago.