by Currently
October 3rd 2025
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Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons MLA ‘23 won the 2025 Teaching Literature Book Award, an international prize for the best book on teaching literature at the college level, the edited volume features the chapter Writing Our Lives into the World, co-authored by Rhiannon M. Cates, library special collections and university archives and women, gender and sexuality studies faculty, Vicki L. Reitenauer, women, gender and sexuality studies faculty, and the late women, gender and sexuality studies student Benjamin J. Hall, to whom the volume is dedicated.
Tomás Cotik, music faculty, won The American Prize for String Performance, Professional Division, Strings, the nation’s most comprehensive series of nonprofit competitions in the performing arts, recognizing outstanding performers, ensembles, composers and directors across the United States.
John Hall, economics faculty, co-organized the special session Advancing Evolutionary-Institutional Thought for the 37th annual meeting of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy in Athens, Greece from Sept. 23-27.