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Congratulations to Bill Foege, author of House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox, for receiving one of thirteen Presidential Medals of Freedom–America’s highest civilian honor. Among other winners were Bob Dylan and Toni Morrison. In this C-Span video, Bill is the first recipient to walk out on the platform. For more context regarding Bill’s work [more...]  Congratulations to Robin Grossinger, author of the Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas, for winning one of the coveted Bay Nature Local Hero awards. Robin was recognized in the Environmental Educator category. Robin is the Senior Scientist and Director at the Historical Ecology Project of the San Francisco Estuary Institute. In the words of Bay Nature publisher David [more...] Cynthia Enloe, a research professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, has been honored with the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award. Granted by the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the award recognizes Enloe for her work as a “scholar-activist” in gender studies and international politics, which has [more...] Jeff Sallaz’s book The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa has recently been honored with the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Labor and Labor Movements. The award goes to a book that exemplifies the best research into “unions as social movements, work and [more...] |
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