ISA Women's Caucus Announces Award Winners

The Women's Caucus for International Studies (WCIS) has selected Jindy Rosa (Jan) Pettman as the 2012 recipient of the Susan Northcutt Award.  She was nominated for this award by Professor Cynthia Enloe, who writes in part:

Jindy has been an active member of the ISA’s Feminist Theory & Gender Studies section from its start...and was chosen to be one of the inaugural trio of editors of the then-brand-new International Feminist Journal of Politics. It was a tribute to the trust that all of us had in Jindy – in her fairness, in her commitment, in her hard work, in her breadth of understanding of feminist IR scholarship, and in her truly collaborative style of work....We now take IFjP for granted – but it was Jindy Pettmen who did so much to get the journal off to a good feminist-informed start.  In Jindy, teaching, mentoring, doing research, and building a genuinely transnational feminist scholarly community all converged.

The Women’s Caucus for International Studies (WCIS) of the International Studies Association has selected Linda Akua Opongmaa Darkwa to receive this year’s Deborah “Misty” Gerner Grant for Professional Development.  The grant will support Professor Darkwa’s research proposal for field work in Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Sierra Leone to complete her project on "International Legal Protection of Children in Armed Conflict Situations.”
 
The award is sponsored by Lynne Rienner Publishers in memory of our dear friend and colleague, Dr. Deborah “Misty” Gerner, a professor of international relations at the University of Kansas (1988-2006) who spent more than 25 years studying, visiting, and living in the Middle East, and was an expert on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian nationalism; Professor Gerner received awards for outstanding teaching as well as service in the profession and was a supportive advocate for women scholars in international studies. More information is available here.