Congratulations to UC Davis Professor Lisa Materson on having her new book Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence be named one of the best feminist books of the year by Ms. Magazine. Lisa G. Materson is a historian of US women’s and gender history. Her work is focused on women’s participation in social and political justice movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 analyzes African American women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics in order to undermine institutionalized racism. This book works both as a biography and a study of the dynamics of allyship and outsider participation in the history of anti-colonial mobilization.

With her colleague Professor Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Professor Materson is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History and has published public history projects, including the Empire Suffrage Syllabus and Women's History in the Pacific West. Prior to arriving at UC Davis, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University and a lecturer in the history department at Yale University. 

You can read the full list on the Ms. Magazine website here.