{"id":5031,"date":"2024-11-14T23:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2024-12-03T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:05:13","slug":"joan-flore-villalobos-receives-wesley-logan-prize-in-african-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/hist\/joan-flore-villalobos-receives-wesley-logan-prize-in-african-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Flore-Villalobos receives Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/joan-flores-villalobos\/\">Joan Flores-Villalobos<\/a>, assistant professor of history, was awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/award-grant\/wesley-logan-prize\/\">Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History<\/a> for her book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennpress.org\/9781512823639\/the-silver-women\/\"><em>The Silver Women: How Black Women\u2019s Labor Made the Panama Canal<\/em><\/a> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). The annual award is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, recognizing outstanding work in African diaspora history. Flores-Villalobos\u2019 book explores the role of Black West Indian women in constructing the Panama Canal, revealing their critical role in U.S. imperial expansion and migration networks.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2024\/10\/joan-flores-villalobos\/\">USC Dornsife Faculty Recognition<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Congratulations Joan!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Read More:<\/h3>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ukNErdmCVV\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2024\/05\/joan-flores-villalobos-2024-2\/\">Joan Flores-Villalobos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Joan Flores-Villalobos&#8221; &#8212; USC Dornsife News Briefs\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2024\/05\/joan-flores-villalobos-2024-2\/embed\/#?secret=vgFPNdXkCY#?secret=ukNErdmCVV\" data-secret=\"ukNErdmCVV\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":5039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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