Dr. Makowski wins Distinguished Book Award

Prof. Elizabeth Makowski is the 2007 winner of the History of Women Religious's Distinguished Book Award, given for an outstanding book on any aspect of the history of women religious since the organization's 2004 conference. According to the chair of the awards committee, "The committee found your work on 'Pernicious Women' deserving of recognition for its scholarship and importance of topic. The committee's decision was unanimous and enthusiastic." The book, "A Pernicious Sort of Woman": Quasi-religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages (Catholic University of America, 2005), is her third.



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