Faculty & Affiliate Teaching Awards: Barbara McCaskill

Institute for Women's Studies affiliate faculty member Barbara McCaskill was recently awarded the Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship. This award is for faculty members who have demonstrated that they are gifted, dedicated and superior teachers. Each faculty member receives $7,850 a year for three years.

Dr. McCaskill (PhD, Emory University, 1988) teaches African American and Multicultural American literature at the University of Georgia. She has edited (with Suzanne Miller) Multicultural American Literature: Making Space for Difference (SUNY, 1993) and Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Narrative of William and Ellen Craft (Georgia, 1999). She co-founded Womanist Theory & Research in 1994 with Layli Phillips and for the first four years funded this, as well as a summer seminar program on women of color, with a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship. With Tim Powell, she has organized the Multicultural Archive of Georgia, a digital resource and computer classroom for the research and teaching of manuscript and newspaper collections in Multicultural American Studies at the University of Georgia. Dr. McCaskill has held residencies at Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She has published essays on 19th- and 20th-century African American women writers in numerous journals and books.