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2025 Grawemeyer religion award goes to rabbi and disability advocate Julia Watts Belser

December 5, 2024

For reconsidering the relationship between disability and spirituality, Georgetown University professor of Jewish Studies, Rabbi Julia Watts Belser will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Religion, the University of L

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2025 Grawemeyer education award goes to Mark Warren for book ‘Willful Defiance’

December 4, 2024

For researching and writing “Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline,” a book that describes and analyzes the building of the grassroots movement to end racially disproportionate school

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2025 Grawemeyer world order award goes to John M. Owen IV for ‘The Ecology of Nations’

December 3, 2024

For researching and writing “The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order,” an innovative book about the way the international ecosystem constrains and influences democracies, University of Virgini