Jacqueline Jones Royster is an

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academic, author, and

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, and

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scholar. She is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the former Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.

Education and career

Royster earned a B.A. in English from

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in 1970. She has a D.A. (1975) and an M.A. (1971) in English and Linguistics from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Royster taught English at the

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and

. 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

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Professional contributions

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''. She also co-edited ''Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture''''.'' In 2003, she co-edited a college writing textbook called ''Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community.''

Selected publications

* * * ** Winner of the 2000

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Richard Braddock Award * ** Recognized by the

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with the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize * * **Winner of the Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award

Awards and honors

In 2004 Royster received the Exemplar Award from the

. In 2006 she received the Frances Andrew March Award from the

. She was named a fellow of the

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in 2014. 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'', and she received the Global Ambassador Award from Alliance Française d'Atlanta. 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.'' With Jean C. Williams, she is the recipient of the 2000 Richard Braddock Award.

References

External links

Georgia Tech profile
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