National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 First Book Prize!

Jocelyn E. Marshall, Emerson College

Dissent Nearby: Diasporic Feminism & U.S.
Imperialism

Dr. Jocelyn E. Marshall is a Postdoctoral Fellow supported by the American Association of University Women’s American Fellowship, and she previously was a Dissertation Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center. 

Their interdisciplinary projects focus on contemporary U.S.-based diasporic women and LGBTQ+ artists and writers, researching relationships between historical trauma and queer and feminist activism. Her research is featured or forthcoming in the Journal of American Culture, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Public Art Dialogue, and Tripwire: A Journal of Poetics, among others. They also curate exhibitions of contemporary art, including

Being In-Between | In-Between Being (UB Art Galleries, 2020-21) and Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 – Buffalo NY (multi-site, 2023). She currently Co-Chairs the Gender & Feminisms Caucus at the Society for Cinema & Media Studies and serves on the Editorial Board of Art Journal.

For more information on the prize, visit https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/NWSAPrize.html