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Paula J. Giddings <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Article Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Award<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award honors an author whose work embodies the groundbreaking nature and innovative spirit of Paula\u2019s writing. We aim for this award to highlight different forms of knowledge production that engage scholarship, journalism, activism, and cultural work from Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In keeping with Giddings\u2019s wide ranging history of commitment to rigorous research, beautiful writing and paradigm shifting, the Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award will be bestowed each fall at the National Women\u2019s Studies Association Meeting. Awardees will be informed in advance, and are expected to attend the NWSA meeting where they will present a summary of their essay and receive the award\u2014a small monetary prize, a commemorative certificate, and a gift set of Giddings\u2019s books. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Award Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Best Article Recipient<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Evelyn Saavedra Autry<\/strong> – \u201cInsurgent Memories of Armed Struggle:<\/a> <\/a>Self-Representation by Female Ex-combatants in Peru\u201d<\/a> (Vol. 24, No. 1<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Evelyn Saavedra Autry<\/a>\u00a0is an assistant professor in the Department of Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. In her current book project,\u00a0Race, Gender, and Violence in Narratives of the Andes: Archives of Coloniality and Indigenous Resurgence<\/em>, Saavedra Autry constructs a genealogy of gender-based violence that offers an in-depth examination of the colonial mechanisms behind the objectification of Indigenous women and remaps the ways in which they have stood up to racialized and sexualized epistemic violence. Her research can be found in the journals\u00a0Meridians<\/em>,\u00a0Feminist Formations<\/em>, and the\u00a0Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies<\/em>. Her paper \u201cSinging Feminist Ch\u2019ixi+Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus\u201d was awarded the 2023 Feminist Formations and National Women\u2019s Studies Association Paper Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Cat Brooks, Dr. Andreia Beatriz Silva dos Santos,<\/strong> and Professor Maria-F\u00e1tima Santos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPolicing and the Carceral State in Brazil and the United States: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conceptualizing, Tracking, and Resisting Anti-Black Violence\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Vol. 24, No. 2)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cat Brooks<\/a> is an activist, organizer, actor and playwright, movement leader, and radio host of \u201cLaw and Disorder\u201d on KPFA. Brooks is the cofounder and executive director of the Anti Police-Terror Project and executive director of the Justice Teams Network, providing rapid response and healing justice services as an interruption of and response to state violence. She was also runner-up in Oakland\u2019s 2018 mayoral election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andreia Beatriz Silva dos San<\/a>tos<\/a> is a doctor specializing in family and community medicine with a MA degree in community health. She is cofounder and coordinator of the political organization Reaja ou Ser\u00e1 Morta, Reaj\u00e1 ou Ser\u00e1 Morto (React or Be Killed), which fights the genocide against Black people. She is on the medical faculty at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (Brazil) and researches the health of the Black population, incarcerated people, and the struggle against anti-Black violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maria-F\u00e1tima Santos<\/a> is an assistant professor of sociology and affiliate of the Center for Law, Society and Justice at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. Her research examines questions at the intersection of violence, state power, law, and punishment in global and historical perspective. She was developer and codirector of the 2019 symposium on Anti-Black State Violence Across the Americas: Power and Struggle in Brazil and the United States, hosted at the University of California, Berkeley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Honorable Mention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Professor Laura Barber\u00e1n Reinares and Professor Eunah Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Name of Awareness Audience, Venue, and the Politics of Witnessing Human Rights Violations\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Vol. 24, No. 2<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laura Barber\u00e1n Reinares<\/a>\u00a0is a professor of English and literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has published extensively on human rights and gender issues. Her book,\u00a0Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bola\u00f1o<\/em>\u00a0(2015), explores literary representations of sex trafficking. She is affiliated with the Human Rights Hub within the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a former Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Faculty Research Fellow (CUNY GC). In 2025, she received the CUNY BCC President\u2019s Award for Excellence in Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eunah Lee <\/a>is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Joseph\u2019s University, New York. She was the first recipient of the Transnational Justice Interdisciplinary Workshop Grants at Marquette University in 2015, from which she wrote \u201cReflections on the Symposium at Marquette University: Integrity of Memory: \u2018Comfort Women\u2019 in Focus\u201d (2015). Her publications include \u201cNarrative of Traumatic Memory in Spirits\u2019 Homecoming (2016) and Tuning Fork (2014)\u201d in the British journal Asian Cinema<\/em> (2024) and \u201cLove and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho\u2019s Mother and Lee Chang-Dong\u2019s Poetry,\u201d a book chapter in Philosophy, Film, and The Dark Side of Interdependence (2020). Her current research focuses on two strands. First, she works on the ethics of memory and representation in the context of sexual slavery during World War II. Second, she publishes articles analyzing the racial issues in modern Western philosophy, especially in Kantian political philosophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Internal Award Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Submissions are selected by the Editorial Board from each published volume of Meridians.<\/em> For more information about our Editorial Board, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Paula J. Giddings<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Paula J. Giddings is Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Africana Studies Emeritus, Smith College, Northampton, MA. <\/em>She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact on Black Women on Race and Sex in America (HarperCollins, 1984)<\/em>; In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement (HarperCollins, 1988)<\/em>; and, most recently, the biography of anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. Ida: A Sword Among Lions (HarperCollins, 2008)<\/em> won The<\/em> Los Angeles Times<\/em> Book Prize for Biography and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ida<\/em> was deemed one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post<\/em> and the Chicago Tribune<\/em>, and earned the first inaugural John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award presented by the Duke University Libraries. The book also won the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians and the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavas Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giddings is a former book editor and journalist who has written extensively on international and national issues and has been published by the Washington Post<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em>, the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, Jeune Afrique<\/em> (Paris), The Nation<\/em>, and Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women<\/em>, among other publications. She is also the editor of Burning All Illusions<\/em>, an anthology of articles on race published by The Nation<\/em> magazine from 1867 to 2000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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