The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (BICLM) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual Lucy Shelton Caswell Research Award for 2024 … the recipients for 2024 are Dr. Safiyya Hosein and Dr. Jonathan Najarian.
Dr. Safiyya Hosein is a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University and holds a PhD in Communication and Culture. Her research focuses on Muslim superheroes, Muslim audiences, and Muslim fandoms. Hosein has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Popular Culture Studies Journal, Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics…
Dr. Jonathan Najarian is Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Colgate University. He is the editor of Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture (University Press of Mississippi, 2024), and is currently at work on a book on early American newspaper comics…Immediate Fantasies: Comics in Context, 1890-1940…
The Billy Ireland carries the full report of the honors.
The award is named for Professor Emerita Lucy Shelton Caswell, the founding curator of BICLM, and provides $2500 to support researchers who need to travel to Columbus, Ohio to use the BICLM collections materials on site.