Professor Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh wins TWO book prizes from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora!

Congratulations to Professor Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh, whose book, The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South, won the 2022 Outstanding First Book Prize, and the 2022 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn book Prize, from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora! The Outstanding First Book Prize honors an outstanding single-authored book focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora, while the Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize honors an outstanding single-authored book focused on gender and sexuality in Africa and/or the African diaspora. 

Professor Wells-Oghoghomeh was also named a finalist for the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, given by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

Congratulations, Professor Wells-Oghoghomeh!