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May 04, 2015

The Wiley Prize in Family Studies: Submissions for The Alexis Walker Award Now Open

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is now accepting submissions for the second annual Alexis Walker Award, which honors outstanding original scholarship in the field of family studies. The biannual $5,000 award will be presented for the second time at the 77th conference of the National Council on Family Relations in November 2015 in  Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada).

The award was established in 2013 in the memory of Alexis Walker, an eminent scholar and pathfinder in Family Studies. Alexis was a visionary leader and mentor known for the scholarship and service, vitality, and interdisciplinary she brought to the scholarship of gender, feminism, aging mother-adult daughter relationships, and families and health.

The 2013 Alexis Walker Award was presented to Professor Linda M. Burton, of Duke University, U.S.A. and Professor Ingrid Arnet Connidis, of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, for their work in Family Process and the Journal of Family Theory and Review, respectively.

A panel of judges representing Wiley’s society partnerships in this broad interdisciplinary field will review entries and determine the award winner. 2013 nominations were solicited from Wiley partners including the Family Process Institute, the American Association for Marital and Family Therapy, the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, the Guttmacher Institute, the British Association for the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, the British Association of Community Child Health, the Swiss Paediatric Society, the Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health, and the National Council on Family Relations.

Nominations and supporting details should be submitted to Margaret N. Zusky by email at [email protected] by September 1, 2015. Please click here to download the application materials and checklist.