Congratulations Jocelyn Marshall

Congratulations to Jocelyn E. Marshall who has been awarded the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association x University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. Reviewers noted of her submission, “Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S. Imperialism:”

“… a very strong, well-researched, timely and creative manuscript on U.S.-based immigrant and exiled women artists and their late-20th-century art works. Using a transnational feminist approach, and combining disciplinary insights from trauma, art, migration and gender studies, the study proposes an intertextual reading of diasporic women’s expressions and experiences of trauma, placing these firmly within the histories of institutionalized racism, patriarchy and violence of US imperialism. A truly interdisciplinary study that engages a large set of sources ranging from the art works, archival sources, oral histories and interviews to scholarship drawn skillfully from different disciplines, this timely and innovative manuscript is set to make important contributions to feminist inquiry.”

The award includes an advanced publication contract with the University of Illinois Press.