Innovation in Scholarship Award

Purpose: Recognizes a distinguished scholar whose research advances the academy's understanding of health, women's rights, human rights, constitutional law, and related fields.

Award Scope: Annual recognition of scholars who have made significant contributions to the intellectual basis of reproductive rights, health, women's rights, and human rights fields through years of dedicated research as scholars and leaders within the academy.

Award Criteria

• Distinguished scholar status
• Research advancing academy's understanding of:
  • Health
  • Women's rights
  • Human rights
  • Constitutional law
  • Related fields
• Significant contributions to intellectual basis of these fields through years of dedicated research
• Work displaying understanding of the human condition at the heart of human rights
• Leadership within the academy

Focus Areas

• Constitutional law
• Gender and sex law
• Violence against reproductive healthcare providers
• Sex segregation
• Masculinity
• Reproductive justice and health

Example Recipient

2015 Awardee: David S. Cohen, Associate Professor of Law at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

• Research exploring intersection of constitutional law and gender
• Emphasis on sex segregation, masculinity, and violence against abortion providers
• Published in Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, George Washington Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, South Carolina Law Review, and Seton Hall Law Review
• Co-authoring forthcoming book titled "Anti-Abortion Terrorism" with Oxford University Press