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Two SBS faculty members -- Libby Sharrow and Paul M. Collins, Jr. -- are recipients of 2024 book awards bestowed by the American Political Science Association. 

Libby Sharrow, associate professor of history and public policy, is a recipient of the 2024 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge University Press, July 2023), co-authored with James Druckman, Northwestern University. The Kammerer Award honors the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy. 

"Equality Unfulfilled" draws on surveys with student-athletes, athletic administrators, coaches, and college sports fans to highlight how institutions shape attitudes toward policies for gender equity, and identifies how efforts to achieve systemic change are undermined. The book is relevant to anyone who seeks to understand roadblocks in the path to equity.

Paul M. Collins, Jr., professor of legal studies and political science, has been honored with the C. Herman Pritchett Award for “Supreme Bias: Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings” (Stanford University Press, October 2023), co-authored by Christina L. Boyd and Lori A. Ringhand, both of the University of Georgia. The C. Herman Pritchett Award is given annually by the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association to recognize the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year.

“Supreme Bias” examines the subtle forms of bias that women and people of color face on their paths to the Supreme Court. In addition to revealing the disturbing extent to which race and gender bias exist even at the highest echelon of U.S. legal power, the book provides concrete suggestions for how that bias can be reduced in the future.

The awards will be presented at the 2024 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

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