Libby Sharrow, associate professor of history and public policy, has won the 2024 American Political Science Association (APSA)'s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for their book Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports. The Kammerer Award honors the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy. Sharrow and co-author James Druckman (University of Rochester) will be presented with the award at the annual APSA conference in September.
The year 1972 is often hailed as an inflection point in the evolution of women's rights. Congress passed Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a law that outlawed sex-based discrimination in education. Many Americans celebrate Title IX for having ushered in an era of expanded opportunity for women's athletics; yet fifty years after its passage, sex-based inequalities in college athletics remain the reality. Equality Unfulfilled explains why. The book was also awarded the 2024 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.
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Dr. Elizabeth A. Sharrow is an associate professor in UMass Amherst’s School of Public Policy and the Department of History, and Director of Faculty Research at the UMass Institute for Social Science Research. Their scholarship focuses on the politics of gender and race in the U.S. with a focus on how policy has shaped intersectional meanings of sex, race, sexuality, disability, and class over the past fifty years. Sharrow’s research looks at Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the politics of the family, and the politics of college athletics. Dr. Sharrow and Dr. Druckman are currently writing a second book about the inclusion of transgender athletes and the politics of gender diversity in college sports, under contract with Cambridge University Press.