Alhassan Wins National Women's Studies Association/University of Illnois Press First Book Prize

AADS is happy to announce that our 2018-2019 Dissertation Fellow Shamara Wyllie Alhassan was selected as the winner of the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press (NWSA/UIP) 2019 First Book Prize for her manuscript, Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World. Alhassan will be formally recognized in mid-November at the NWSA's conference in Atlanta, GA.