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Dr. Shelley Park wins 2009 Women's Research Center Award in the Arts and Humanities
The
Women's Research Center is please to announce Shelley Park, Ph.D., Associate
Professor of Philosophy as the recipient of the 2009 Award in the Arts
and Humanities. She becomes the 15th recipient of the annual award initiated
in 2002. The award defrays some of the costs of research and production
associated with her book-length manuscript Real (M)others: The Metaphysics
of Maternity in Adoptive, Queer and Blended Families. In this book, as
well as a number of recent publications in edited books and journals including
Hypatia and the Florida Philosophical Review she explores the central philosophical
issue of "What is a real mother?" Using
a number of theoretical models she answers this question on many levels
as a mix of realities and fictions.
The Women's Research Center works with the recipients to achieve external
funding for their projects and future research.