Jacqueline Jones Royster | |
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Born | |
Known for | Rhetoric and race, cultural studies |
Awards | CCCC Braddock Award, MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, CCCC Exemplar Award, MLA Frances Andrew March Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan, Spelman College |
Academic work | |
Discipline | English studies |
Institutions | Ohio State University,Georgia Institute of Technology,Spelman College |
Jacqueline Jones Royster is an American academic,author,and rhetoric,literacy,and cultural studies scholar. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Royster earned a B.A. in English from Spelman College in 1970. [1] She has a D.A. (1975) and an M.A. (1971) in English and Linguistics from the University of Michigan. [2]
Royster taught English at the Ohio State University and Spelman College. In 2010,she moved to Georgia Tech where she served as Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts until 2019. She has held several leadership roles including the 1995 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. [3]
Royster's research focuses mostly on African-American women and civil rights. Two of her books with this research are Traces of a Stream:Literacy and Social Change among African-American Women and Southern Horrors and Other Writings:The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells,1892-1900. She was a co-editor for Reader's Choice. [2] She also co-edited Calling Cards:Theory and Practice in the Study of Race,Gender,and Culture [2] . In 2003,she co-edited a college writing textbook called Critical Inquiries:Readings on Culture and Community. [2]
In 2004 Royster received the Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. [10] In 2006 she received the Frances Andrew March Award from the Modern Language Association. [11] She was named a fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2014. [12] In 2014, she and Gesa E. Kirsch received the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition (CFSHRC) for her co-authored book Feminist Rhetorical Practices: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, [13] and she received the Global Ambassador Award from Alliance Française d'Atlanta. [2] In 2024, she received an honorable mention for the CFSHRC Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award for her book Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1990. [14] With Jean C. Williams, she is the recipient of the 2000 Richard Braddock Award. [15]
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