Oakland, CA - Brinda Mehta, professor of French and Francophone Studies at Mills College, has won the Caribbean Philosophical Association's Frantz Fanon Award for outstanding work in Indo-Caribbean thought for her book, Diasporic Dis(locations): Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the "Kala Pani.”

Professor Mehta will be honored this June in a ceremony at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica.

The Frantz Fanon Award is an international prize recognizing groundbreaking scholarship in Caribbean Studies. The international jury is comprised of distinguished Caribbean and Latin American scholars, some of whom are past recipients of the prize. The scholars include Paget Henry (Brown University), Sibylle Fischer (New York University), Alejandro de Oto (University of Patagonia, Argentina), Walter Mignolo (Duke University), and Lewis Ricardo Gordon (Temple University and president of the Association).

Mehta’s book was published by the University Press of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica (2004).

Paget Henry, professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University, said, "Brinda Mehta's Diasporic (Dis)locations is a pathbreaking, rich and very carefully researched text. It brims with insights and succeeds in establishing the distinct voices and strategies of Indo-Caribbean women's writing. It is sure to remain the standard text in this field for a long time to come. In short, it is a book that must be read by all serious scholars of the Caribbean."

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs for undergraduate women, and graduate degree and certificate programs for women and men. Consistently recognized as one of the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, Mills currently ranks among the top 20 most diverse liberal arts colleges. The New York Times recently selected Mills as one of three leading California colleges for students to consider.

In 2006, the Washington Monthly College Rankings named Mills a leading liberal arts college based on community service, research spending, quality of preparation for graduate education, and social mobility. In addition, The Princeton Review’s annual guide, the Best 361 Colleges (2007) included Mills for the second year in a row among top U.S. institutions offering students an outstanding undergraduate education.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California on 135 lush acres, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity. 

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