The Northeast Popular Culture Association is proud to honor Beyond Norma Rae with the 2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize. Accessible in style yet rigorous in scope, this book reimagines the history behind the 1979 film Norma Rae and restores the diverse women’s voices…
The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary academic research center. The Director of the RITM Center is Stephen Pitti, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. The mission of RITM is to…
The CCWH Prelinger Award is a scholarship of $20,000 awarded to a scholar of excellence. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional…
2020 April: Lerner-Scott Prize, Organization of American Historians My project “Creating Norma Rae: The Erasure of Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists in a Neoliberal Icon” received the Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. The prize committee described it as “a stunningly…
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2018-2019: Humanities Institute Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut To aid emerging fellows, UCHI offers, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of The Graduate School, a residential graduate dissertation fellowship. Graduate Humanities Scholars receive a full research assistantship…