Humanities

Ana Raquel Minian book named finalist for 2025 PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

Ana Raquel Minian, associate professor in the Department of History, has been named a finalist for the 2025 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction for her book In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention. The winner will be announced May 8. Minian's book was published in April 2024 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. 

Read more about the award.

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