Dr. Tamika Nunley Wins 2025 Journal of Women’s History Article Prize

Dr. Tamika Nunley (History), has won the Journal of Women's History Article Prize for 2025 for her work, “The Intellectual World of Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius” which appeared in the journal's Spring 2024 issue (Volume 36, Number 1). Her award-winning article examines the life and work of enslaved African American poet Phillis Wheatley and her contemporaries to consider how African-descended people conceptualized liberty during the American Revolution. Read more about Dr. Nunley’s research here.