Dr. Monic Ductan of the English Department is the recipient of the 2024-2025 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Research and Scholarly Activity for her book “Daughters of Muscadine” published in 2023 by the University Press of Kentucky. It is a short story collection about working-class Black families in rural Georgia that has won the Wetherford Award from Berea College, the Tennessee Book Award, and was included on the annual list of “Books All Georgians Should Read” in 2024.