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Shatema Threadcraft Receives the 2026 Victoria Schuck Award for “The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian”
The Victoria Schuck Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best book published on women and politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The committee found Shatema Threadcraft’s The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy to be bold and imaginative with important implications for political theory, Black studies, gender studies, and the study of political mobilization broadly.