Alumni Achievement Award: bell hooks

The recipient of the 2023 Alumni Achievement Award is bell hooks (Ph.D. ’83), a celebrated feminist theorist, cultural critic, artist, and writer of over two dozen books that ranged from the groundbreaking text "Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism" to her deeply felt memoir "Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood" to her acclaimed children’s book "Happy To Be Nappy."
Along with her steady stream of writing work, hooks maintained a vibrant career in academia. She served as a professor of English and African and Afro-American studies at Yale, was associate professor of American literature and women’s studies at Oberlin College, and was a distinguished professor of English at City University of New York. Since 2004, she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky and helped establish the bell hooks Institute there for students to study her writing and teaching work.
hooks is survived by her four sisters, Sarah Chambers, Angela Malone, Gwenda Motley, and Valeria Watkins, as well as her brother, Kenneth Watkins. hooks will be receiving the Alumni Achievement Award posthumously.

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