CLAS affiliate Evelyn Saavedra Autry won the Meridians Journal's Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award for her article "Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-representation by Female ex-Combatants in Peru," published in Vol. 24, No. 1. This award honors an author whose work embodies the groundbreaking nature and innovative spirit of Paula’s writing.
Evelyn Saavedra Autry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her scholarship bridges multiple fields of knowledge, centering Indigenous epistemologies in dialogue with decolonial and feminist pedagogies, literary and cultural studies, and feminist theory. Her current book project, Archives of Coloniality and Indigenous Resurgence: Race, Gender, and Violence in Narratives of the Andes (under contract with University of North Carolina Press; forthcoming Fall 2027), offers a sweeping, multidisciplinary study of Andean Indigenous women’s cultural representations from the colonial period to the present.
You can find her article here.
Congratulations, Evelyn!