December 21, 2021
Linda Blaser
Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera wins First Book Prize in women’s, gender studies
Assistant Professor in Latin American and Latinx Studies and Anthropology Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera received the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)/University of Illinois Press (UIP) First Book Prize in the field of women’s and gender studies.
NWSA partners with UIP in this competition to find and publish nonfiction manuscripts that exemplify cutting-edge intersectional feminist scholarship that speaks effectively across disciplines and projects that offer new perspectives on concerns central to the field of women’s and gender studies.
“I am so honored to receive this prize,” Rodríguez Aguilera said. “After seven years working on my dissertation ‘Grieving Geographies, Mourning Waters: Race, Gender, and Environmental Struggles on the Coast of Oaxaca, Mexico,’ it is important to me to make visible the environmental struggles in Mexico, which now will be published as a book.”
Established in 1977, the National Women’s Studies Association has as one of its primary objectives promoting and supporting the production and dissemination of knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research and service in academic and other settings.