John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is now accepting submissions for the second
annual Alexis Walker Award, which honors outstanding original
scholarship in the field of family studies. The biannual $5,000 award
will be presented for the second time at the 77th conference of the
National Council on Family Relations in November 2015 in Vancouver
(British Columbia, Canada).
The award was established in 2013 in the memory of Alexis Walker, an
eminent scholar and pathfinder in Family Studies. Alexis was a visionary
leader and mentor known for the scholarship and service, vitality, and
interdisciplinary she brought to the scholarship of gender, feminism,
aging mother-adult daughter relationships, and families and health.
The 2013 Alexis Walker Award was presented to Professor Linda M. Burton,
of Duke University, U.S.A. and Professor Ingrid Arnet Connidis, of the
University of Western Ontario, Canada, for their work in Family
Process and the Journal of Family Theory and Review,
respectively.
A panel of judges representing Wiley’s society partnerships in this
broad interdisciplinary field will review entries and determine the
award winner. 2013 nominations were solicited from Wiley partners
including the Family Process Institute, the American Association for
Marital and Family Therapy, the American Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences, the Guttmacher Institute, the British Association for
the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, the British
Association of Community Child Health, the Swiss Paediatric Society, the
Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, and the National Council
on Family Relations.
Nominations and supporting details should be submitted to Margaret N.
Zusky by email at mzusky@wiley.com
by September 1, 2015. Please click here to
download the application materials and checklist.
Contact the publicist:
Dawn Peters
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