{"id":11089,"date":"2020-05-28T08:11:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/news\/?p=11089"},"modified":"2022-01-12T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T20:30:43","slug":"professor-receives-mellon-emerging-faculty-leaders-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/28\/professor-receives-mellon-emerging-faculty-leaders-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant Professor in History Receives Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award for Teaching and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allyson Brantley, assistant professor of history in the University of La&nbsp;Verne\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2020 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) Award from The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation hosts multiple programs and fellowships focused on American research through education.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11091 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Allyson_Brantley_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Allyson_Brantley_image.jpg 540w, https:\/\/laverne.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Allyson_Brantley_image-304x405.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award recognizes more than my research,\u201d Brantley said. \u201cI have served students, including underrepresented students, and have expanded their recognition within the great community that the University of La&nbsp;Verne has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brantley possesses a subject matter expertise in 20th century United States history, to include fields such as consumer culture, social movements and activism, and the US-Mexico borderlands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The award comes with a stipend, which Brantley will use to help her complete her book titled Givin\u2019 Up This Beer: The Coors Boycott and the Remaking of Consumer and Corporate Activism in Postwar America as well as begin a new project on homeless activism in 1980s Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am excited to continue working with students, colleagues, and the university community,\u201d Brantley said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this accolade, Brantley has shown outstanding commitment to research through her other works and publications including her two recent articles, \u201c\u2018Hardhats May Be Misunderstood\u2019: The Boycott of Coors Beer and the Making of Gay Labor-Chicana\/o Alliances,\u201d and \u201c\u2018Shouldn\u2019t You Be Boycotting Coors?\u2019: Ephemera, Boycotting Counterpublics, &amp; The Campaign Against Coors Beer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allyson Brantley, assistant professor of history, has received the 2020 Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders (MEFL) Award 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