Abosede George, Associate Professor of History at Barnard College, received this year’s Aidoo-Snyder Book Award for her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor and Social Development in Colonial Lagos, published in Ohio University Press’s New African Series.

Jennie E. Burnet, Associate Professor at Georgia State University, received Honorable Mention for her book, Genocide Lives in Us: Women, Memory and Silence in Rwanda, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Congratulations to both of these women for their important work!