Women and Gender Studies renames award, selects Francyne Huckaby 2016-17 winner

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Dr. Francyne Huckaby, associate professor in the College of Education and director of the Center for Public Education, has been named the 2016-17 Claudia V. Camp Research and Creative Activity Award winner. Her multimedia presentation, “Becoming Cyborg: A Black Feminist, the Living Camera, Participatory Democracy and their Interweaving,” is open to the public Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in Sid W. Richardson Lecture Hall 2.

Dr. Francyne Huckaby

Formerly the WGST Research and Creative Activity Award, the award has been renamed in honor of longtime employee Camp, who retired in December. The award is a one-year honorary appointment given by TCU’s Women and Gender Studies Program to recognize faculty members for their contributions, scholarship and programs to advance the study of women and gender.

Huckaby holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree from TCU and a bachelor’s degree from Austin College. Her interest in education, equity and ethics is evident throughout her research and the courses she teaches, emphasizing coexistence in divergent worldviews and anti-oppressive discourses and practices. Her current research project is a digital ethnographic film project.

Huckaby is a former TCU Mortar Board Preferred Professor and former finalist for the Dean’s Teaching Award and will receive a cash award of $4,000 for her latest accomplishment.

Nominations for the award are requested each fall and reviewed by a faculty committee that selects the winner. Previous winners include Dr. Babett Bohn, professor of art history, and Dr. Jeannine Gailey, associate professor of sociology.

Camp, who taught in the Religion Department from 1980 until her retirement, is one of the founders and a former director of the Women’s Studies program at TCU. Her courses focused on love and sex in the biblical world as well as women’s studies, with a particular focus on the feminist interpretation of the Bible. She received the Dean’s Award for Research and Creative Activity and the Award for Distinguished Achievement as a Creative Teacher and Scholar within the AddRan College of Liberal Arts.

WGST encourages the examination of women and gender through an interdisciplinary analysis of social, historical, cultural and global contexts.