Research Professor Cynthia Enloe has received the 2016 Charles Homer Haskins Prize. (Photo by Rick Cinclair/Worcester Telegram & Gazette)

Research Professor of international development, community and environment, Cynthia Enloe, received the 2016 Charles Homer Haskins Prize from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), an annual tribute to a life of scholarly achievement. The honor includes an invitation to deliver a lecture at the society’s annual meeting on May 6, as part of a series called, “The Life of Learning.” Named for the chairman of ACLS, the Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecture series celebrates scholarly careers of distinctive importance. Enloe’s selection came in recognition of how “racial, class, ethnic, and national identities, as well as pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities, are common threads throughout her studies.”

At Clark, Enloe also served as chair of the department of political science and as director of women’s studies. She received the Outstanding Teacher Award three times and currently serves on the editorial boards of five academic journals, including International Feminist Journal of Politics; Security Dialogue; Women, Politics and Policy; International Political Sociology; and Politics and Gender.

Enloe’s career has included Fulbright fellowships in Malaysia and Guyana and guest professorships in Japan, Britain, and Canada. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by Union College (2005), the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (2009), Connecticut College (2010), the University of Lund, Sweden (2012), and Clark University (2014).

Enloe’s 14 published books include The Curious Feminist (2004) and Globalization and Militarism (2007), as well as Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (2011).

The ACLS is a private nonprofit federation of 70 national scholarly organizations and is considered the pre-eminent representative of humanities scholarship in the United States