Alabama 2025 Regular Session

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15	15	HR____ COMMENDING DR. SHANNEN DEE WILLIAMS FOR PROFESSIONAL
16	16	ACHIEVEMENTS AND LASTING IMPACT ON AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
17	17	PERTAINING TO WOMEN AND RELIGION.
18	18	WHEREAS, with great pleasure and pride, highest
19	19	commendations are conveyed to Dr. Shannen Dee Williams for
20	20	her professional achievements and lasting impact on African
21	21	American History, particularly in regard to women and
22	22	religion; and
23	23	WHEREAS, Dr. Williams earned her Bachelor of Arts in
24	24	History with magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors from
25	25	Agnes Scott College; a Master of Arts in Afro-American
26	26	Studies from the University of Wisconsin at Madison; and a
27	27	Doctor of Philosophy in History from Rutgers University; she
28	28	is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American
29	29	Historians and an Associate Professor of History at the
30	30	University of Dayton; and
31	31	WHEREAS, Dr. Williams' research on the African
32	32	American experience, with specializations in women's,
33	33	religious, and Black freedom movement history, has been
34	34	supported by a host of grants and fellowships, including a
35	35	Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for
36	36	Research in Black Culture, a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral
37	37	Fellowship in Religion and Ethics from the Woodrow Wilson
38	38	National Foundation, an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the
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68	68	National Foundation, an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the
69	69	American Historical Association, and the John Tracy Ellis
70	70	Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical
71	71	Association; her work has been published in the Journal of
72	72	African American History, American Catholic Studies, The
73	73	Washington Post, America Magazine, U.S. Catholic, and the
74	74	National Catholic Reporter; she penned the award-winning
75	75	column, "The Griot's Cross" in the Catholic News Service
76	76	from 2020 to 2022; and
77	77	WHEREAS, Dr. Williams authored Subversive Habits:
78	78	Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom
79	79	Struggle, which was named a top five book published in
80	80	religion by Publisher's Weekly; received the 2022 Letitia
81	81	Woods Brown Award for Best Book in African American Women's
82	82	History from the Association of Black Women Historians; and
83	83	the 2023 Wesley-Logan Prize for Outstanding Book in African
84	84	Diaspora History from the American Historical Association
85	85	and the Association for the Study of African American Life
86	86	and History; and
87	87	WHEREAS, a lifelong Catholic, Dr. Williams is the
88	88	first Black woman elected to the Executive Council of the
89	89	American Catholic Historical Association; she is a
90	90	co-founder of the Fleming-Morrow Endowment in African
91	91	American History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville;
92	92	she successfully submitted proposals to establish the Mother
93	93	Mary Lange Lecture in Black Catholic History at Villanova
94	94	University and the Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize through the
95	95	American Catholic Historical Association and the Cushwa
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126	126	Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the
127	127	University of Notre Dame; now therefore,
128	128	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
129	129	LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, That for her lasting impact on
130	130	African American history, particularly women's and religious
131	131	history, and for her notable professional accomplishments,
132	132	Dr. Shannen Dee Williams is highly commended, and this
133	133	resolution is offered to her as evidence of our high regard
134	134	with best wishes for continued success, blessings, and
135	135	prosperity.
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