Binghamton University professor Dr. Juanita D’az-Cotto (Also Juanita Ramos) recently received two book awards for Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio, published by the University of Texas Press in 2006. ForeWord Magazine gave it a silver medal in the Women's Studies category of its 2006 Book of the Year Awards. The book also received an honorable mention in the Best History Book/English category of the 9TH Annual International Latino Book Awards. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice documents the impact of the war on drugs on Chicanas and their communities. Dr. D’az-Cotto is an associate professor of sociology, women's studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies. She is also the author of Gender, Ethnicity and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics (1996) and editor, under the pseudonym of Juanita Ramos, of Companeras: Latina Lesbians, Lesbianas latinoamericanas (3rd ed., 2004). She was one of the women featured in GO Magazine's 2006 Pride Issue ("100 Women We Love"). For more information visit: www.juanitadiazcotto.com; 607-777-4916.

PROFESORA LATINOAMERICANA RECIBE PREMIOS LITERARIOS

La Dra. Juanita D’az-Cotto recientemente recibi— dos premios literarios por su libro Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (Vidas Chicanas y Justicia Criminal: Voces desde El Barrio), publicado por la editorial de la Universidad de Tejas en el 2006. La revista ForeWord le di— una medalla de plata en la categor’a de Estudios de la Mujer en su Book of the Year Awards 2006. El libro tambiŽn recibi— una menci—n honorable en la categor’a del Mejor Libro de Historia publicado en Ingles en el 9TH Annual International Latino Book Awards. Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice documenta el impacto de la Guerra contra las drogas en las Chicanas y sus comunidades. D’az-Cotto es catedr‡tica asociada de sociolog’a, estudios de la mujer, y estudios latinoamericanos y caribe–os en Binghamton University, Nueva York. D’az-Cotto tambien es autora de Gender, Ethnicity and the State: Latina and Latino Prison Politics (1996), y editora, bajo el seudonimo de Juanita Ramos, de Compa–eras: Latina Lesbians, Lesbianas latinoamericanas (3rd ed., 2004). Para m‡s informacion visite: www.juanitadiazcotto.com; 607-777-4916.

Joyce leaves this earth to enjoy greater freedom, joy, and peace and to have her work continue to enlighten wimmin who are discovering their own values and identity without the oppression and restraints of this world. Dr. Trebilcot is the daughter of the late Angela Dameral and Earl Trebilcot and a fourth generation Californian who grew up in Oakland, CA. She leaves behind her loving and devoted partner of 24 years, Jan Crites; dear friend Christine Hood; and many students, colleagues, friends, radical feminists and her SWIP (Society for Women in Philosophy) sisters.

Joyce Trebilcot, Ph.D. was the first womon to become a regular and later tenured faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, in the School of Arts and Sciences at Washington University beginning in 1970. She did her undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkley and received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1970. Professor Trebilcot was a co-founder of the Washington University Women’s Studies Program, and was its coordinator from 1980-1992. She was also a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and served for many years on the editorial boards of Hypatia, Social Theory and Practice, and the Journal of Social Philosophy. She gave support and encouragement to many Lesbian projects including Sinister Wisdom.

She held visiting professorships at the University of New Mexico and at the Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Dyke Ideas: Politics, Process and Daily Life; a published paper on Taking Responsibility for Sexuality; and many articles in feminist, lesbian and philosophy publications. Her article, “Sex Roles: The Argument from Nature,” has reprinted many times. She also was the editor of “Mothering: Essays in Feminism Theory”, and of a special issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy and Feminist Social Philosophy. Dr. Trebilcot retired as Professor Emerita from the Department of Philosophy in 1995.

Following her retirement she remained engaged in feminist dialogue with her colleagues, friends and anyone else whose attention she could garner. May her work continue to inform many to come.

A beautiful tribute from the Windy City Times to Mary Daly.