Jill Suzanne Smith, visiting assistant professor of German, has won the Coalition of Women in German's Annual Prize for a Dissertation 2004 for her study, “Reading the Red Light: Literary, Cultural and Social Discourses on Prostitution in Berlin, 1880-1933.” She received the prestigious prize, which comes with a substantial monetary award, Oct. 21 at the annual conference for Women in German in Carrollton, Ky.
At the same time, Smith was elected by her colleagues to the group's National Steering Committee, a three-year administrative post.