Robin Derby Receives Research Excellence Award from the Center for the Study of Women

Robin DerbyCongratulations to Robin Derby, who received the Research Excellence Award from the Center for the Study of Women for her project Demonic Animals and other Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands.

The Center for the Study of Women and Institute of American Cultures established the joint Research Excellence Award for UCLA Associate Professors in January 2017. This Award consists of a monograph manuscript (or equivalent) workshop organized by CSW-IAC to promote continuing excellence in scholarship by UCLA professors at the associate level addressing questions important to the fields of critical race and postcolonial studies and/or gender, sexuality, and ethnic studies.