Entries by Billye Potts

2023 Religion Recipient – Kelly Brown Douglas

Renewed faith will help Black lives matter, says 2023 religion award winner by Denise Fitzpatrick How do we really know God cares when Black people are still getting killed? How long do we have to wait for God’s justice? Hearing her son ask those questions and seeing Black Lives Matter protests erupt nationwide after George […]

2023 Education Recipient – Jennifer Morton

Disadvantaged students pay a price to move up, says 2023 education prize winner by Denise Fitzpatrick Disadvantaged college students pay a heavy ethical and emotional price to become upwardly mobile, says a scholar who today was named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Jennifer Morton, an associate professor of philosophy […]

2023 Ideas for Improving World Order Recipient – Steven Feldstein

Digital technology aiding repression, says 2023 world order prize winner by Denise Fitzpatrick Digital technology is playing a growing role in advancing political repression across the globe, a trend that poses a threat to the world’s democracies, says a scholar who today was named winner of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas […]

2023 Music Composition Recipient – Julian Anderson

Julian Anderson’s ‘Litanies’ wins 2023 music prize By Denise Fitzpatrick The Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the death of an esteemed colleague influenced the creation of “Litanies,” said Julian Anderson, a British composer named today as winner of the 2023 Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition for the work. “Notre Dame burned while I was writing […]

1990 Grawemeyer Winner, Dr. Robert Jervis in Improving World Order Passes Away

We are deeply saddened to note that Dr. Robert Jervis,  Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University, passed away recently. Dr. Jervis was the winner of the 1990 World Order Award for his book, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon.   Here is a link to Dr. Jervis’s […]

Work describing Buddhists’ faith despite confinement wins Grawemeyer religion prize

A scholar who explained how Japanese American Buddhists remained true to their faith even after being forced into U.S. detention camps during WWII has won the 2022 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Duncan Ryuken Williams, a religion professor who directs the Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture at the University of Southern California, won […]

Economist who traced long-term success of school integration wins Grawemeyer education award

An economist who found that integrating U.S. public schools in the 1970s and 1980s benefited students over time has won the 2022 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Rucker Johnson, a University of California-Berkeley public policy professor specializing in education economics, received the prize for ideas set forth in “Children of the Dream: Why […]