Nancy Davis (Rhodes Visiting Fellow & Somerville 1979) receives Independent Publisher Book Award

"Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare, co-authored by Nancy J. Davis, professor emerita of sociology at DePauw University, has received a "gold" award in the religion category of the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards. A collaboration with Robert V. Robinson, Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University - Bloomington, the book was published last summer by Indiana University Press.

The work by Professors Davis and Robinson shares the first place award with From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion and Culture, by Saba Soomekh." Read more at DePauw University