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11:55 a.m., March 20, 2003--Elizabeth Higginbotham, professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, has been awarded the prestigious Robin M. Williams Jr. Lectureship for 2003-04, which the Eastern Sociological Society gives each year to an outstanding scholar in sociology.
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Higginbotham will deliver lectures at two schools during the year and will be a featured speaker at the Eastern Sociological Society conference in spring 2004.
“It’s an honor to be selected for this award, and I look forward to the opportunity of sharing my work with others,” Higginbotham said.
Her field of research is social inequality, race/gender and employment and education.
Higginbotham is the author of “Too Much to Ask: Black Women in the Era of Integration,” which focuses on the lives of 56 black women from middle- and working-class families who graduated from predominantly white colleges from 1968-70.
She also is the co-editor of “Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class” and has contributed several articles to “Gender and Society” and “Women’s Studies Quarterly.” With other scholars, she helped to establish the Center for Research on Women at the University of Memphis, noted as a hub of race, class and gender scholarship.
Joining the UD faculty in 1998, Higginbotham has a bachelor’s degree from City College of CUNY and received her master’s and doctoral degrees from Brandeis University.
Article by Sue Moncure
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