Erik McDuffie (African American Studies, IPRH Fellow 2010–11) received the Wesley-Logan Prize from the American Historical Association for his book Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism (Duke, 2011). The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History, and is is awarded annually for an outstanding book on some aspect of the history of the dispersion, settlement and adjustment, and/or return of peoples originally from Africa.
