Chapter by W+GRA’s Brown included in award-winning work

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Heather Brown, executive director of the Women + Girls Research Alliance, recently learned that a book in which she has a chapter has received two national awards. “The Fat Pedagogy Reader,” edited by Erin Cameron and Constance Russell, has won a 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association. Earlier this year, it won the 2016 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award. Brown's chapter is entitled "Fat Studies in the Field of Higher Education: Developing a Theoretical Framework and Its Implications for Research and Practice."