The Anna Julia Cooper Award
The Anna Julia Cooper Award
“We owe it to the world to give out at least as much as we have taken in, but if we aim to be accounted a positive value we must leave it a little richer than we found it.”
- Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892)
The Anna Julia Cooper Award is for best paper presented by a beginning scholar at the previous year’s Caribbean Philosophical Association International Conference. Information on past awardees can be found below:
The Anna Julia Cooper Award for Best Paper presented by a Beginning Scholar - CPA 2023 Annual Conference
“I Get Out! Pan African Traditions of Educational Fugitivity”
by Tara Jones
Tara Jones is Coordinator of the African diasporic Cultural Resource Center at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Academic Achievement Counselor for UCSB’s Educational Opportunity Program, where she promotes Black student development, first-generation, and income eligible students’ retention and matriculation to advanced degree programs and diverse career paths. She is a final stage doctoral candidate in Depth Psychology, specializing in Community, Liberation, & Eco-Psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute (PGI). She holds a Masters in the Science of Teaching from Fordham University, a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from PGI, a Master of Arts in Depth Psychology from PGI, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Black Studies from UCSB. She has served as a: secondary level public school teacher at the Frederick Douglass Academy II in Harlem, New York, social-emotional learning facilitator for teens and young adults through a non-profit in public & private school settings and at the Santa Barbara City College in Santa Barbara, psychotherapist, community mental health expert, and employment specialist for The Salvation Army’s Hospitality House in Santa Barbara. She researches the ecology of well-being in public education, cross-professional applications of counseling to teaching, Pan-African traditions of fugitivity in education, Black womxn’s activism as a response to Black maternal necropolitics, and legacies of transnational African diasporic research. Her scholarly work has been published in the journal, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, and her visual art has appeared on covers of the National Conference of Black Political Science’s journal, National Political Science Review and been on exhibit at UCSB’s Multicultural Center.
The Anna Julia Cooper Award Previous Recipients
2016
Victor Hugo Pacheco Chavez, Adjunct Instructor in Social Theory and Marxist Studies, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), for his paper: “‘La colonialidad del poder: impronta, desarrollo y reformulación de un concepto”.
Work presented at the CPA 13th annual conference in Storrs, Connecticut, June 2016.
2015
Seulghee Lee, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of English at Williams College, for his paper: “‘It Has Been a Lifeline’: Audre Lorde’s Technologies of the Flesh”.
Work presented at the CPA 12th annual conference in Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico, June 2015.
Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio, Assistant Professor of Secondary Education, University of New Mexico College of Education, for her paper: “La Revolucionista and Her Mexicana/Mestiza Critical Feminist Ethic of Care: Resisting and Healing the Wounds of Domination through a Subversive, Concealed Revolución”.
Work presented at the CPA 12th annual conference in Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico, June 2015.
2014
Jina Fast, “The Ambiguities of Privilege and Identity in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir”.
Work presented at the CPA 11th annual conference in St. Louis, Missouri, June 2014.