A member of our Liberal Arts faculty has been selected as a finalist for the Outstanding First Book Prize Award, which is rewarded by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD).

Dannelle Gutarra Cordero – who recently joined the department as an Assistant Professor and our Director of Student Experience and Progression – has been nominated for her work She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World; an expansive study that incorporates writers, cultural figures and intellectuals from antiquity to the present day to analyse how discourses on emotion serve to create and maintain White supremacy and racism.

The book was published by Cambridge University Press in late-2021 whilst Dannelle served as a Lecturer in African American Studies, Latin American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University in the USA.

Bryan Brazeau, Head of Liberal Arts at Warwick University, commented:

We are always thrilled to celebrate the successes of our incredible team. This award nomination is wonderful news, though I’m not surprised in the least that Dannelle was nominated for her excellent scholarship!

You can find out more about the ASWAD Awards here. You can also access Dannelle’s incredible award-nominated study through the Warwick Library catalogue here.