{"id":29374,"date":"2018-08-16T11:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=29374"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:38:36","slug":"courtney-thorsson-receives-neh-public-scholars-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/courtney-thorsson-receives-neh-public-scholars-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Thorsson receives NEH Public Scholars Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 2018\u2014<\/strong>Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project \u201cThe Sisterhood and Black Women\u2019s Literary Organizing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29375\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29375\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29375\" src=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Thorsson-DSC_5356.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtney Thorsson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This award will fund research and writing leading to publication of a cultural history of a group of African American women writers, founded by Alice Walker and June Jordan, who met in New York from 1977 to 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2018\u2014Courtney Thorsson, associate professor of English and a CSWS faculty affiliate, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in the amount of $60,000 for her project \u201cThe Sisterhood and Black Women\u2019s Literary Organizing.\u201d This award will&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/courtney-thorsson-receives-neh-public-scholars-award\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":29375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,17,5],"tags":[129,654,158],"class_list":["post-29374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-faculty-affiliates","category-research","tag-courtney-thorsson","tag-neh","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32781,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29374\/revisions\/32781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}