Heather Ann Thompson, a 

professor of history in the Afro-

American and African Studies 

Department, was awarded a Pulitzer 

Prize in history for her novel “Blood 

in the Water: The Attica Prison 

Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy.” 

In an email interview, 

Thompson — who is also in the 

Residential College Social Theory 

and Practice Program — wrote she 

found out about her award during 

class and looked at her students in 

disbelief.

“I am so deeply grateful for 

this, it’s hard to put into words,” 

she wrote. “It is amazing to have 

one’s work recognized for sure, 

but, mostly and overwhelmingly, I 

am grateful because the story of all 

that the men inside of Attica really 

endured back in 1971 — prisoners and 

guards alike — is being honored.”

In a University of Michigan 

press release, President Mark 

Schlissel said the award shows how 

dedicated University faculty are to 

their work.

“Dr. Heather Ann Thompson’s 

Pulitzer Prize in history is an 

outstanding example of our faculty’s 

talent and commitment to academic 

rigor being recognized at the highest 

levels,” he said. “I am proud to 

congratulate her on this amazing 

achievement.”

Thompson’s book highlights the 

Sept. 9, 1971 incident, in which nearly 

1,300 prisoners took over the prison 

and held guards and employees 

hostage to bargain for better living 

conditions. The takeover lasted four 

days and ended when New York state 

troopers shot and killed 39 prisoners 

and hostages and injured hundreds 

of others.

After the demonstration, the 

state of New York tried only the 

prisoners and did not provide any 

legal or financial support to the 

families of victims or survivors.

In her novel, Thompson 

recounts the demonstration and the 

aftermath and places the event in the 

context of the civil rights movements 

in the United States.

“Drawing from more than 

a decade of extensive research, 

historian Heather Ann Thompson 

sheds new light on every aspect of 

the uprising and its legacy, giving 

voice to all those who took part in 

this forty-five-year fight for justice: 

prisoners, former hostages, families 

of the victims, lawyers and judges, 

and state officials and members 

of law enforcement,” Thompson’s 

publisher wrote.

A New York Times review 

by Mark Oppenheimer wrote 

Thompson made the entire event 

thought-provoking by focusing on 

the inmate conditions and smaller 

details of the uprising that many 

would never consider. 

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Kellogg’s Plant Tour

WHAT: The Food Industry 
Student Association will be 
hosting this tour of the cereal 
brand’s Battle Creek plant.

WHO: Michigan Engineering

WHEN: 7:15 a.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Kellogg’s Plant, Battle 
Creek

Representatives 
from 
the 

University of Michigan Ginsberg 
Center presented on their new 
efforts to improve community 
outreach at the weekly Monday 
meeting of the Senate Advisory 
Committee 
on 
University 

Affairs. SACUA also appointed 
its next vice chair, discussed the 
possibility of “immediate past 
chair” as a sanctioned position and 
passed a resolution supporting 
faculty education on student 
mental health.

Ginsberg Director Mary Jo 

Callan said the Ginsberg Center, 
which will be celebrating its 20th 
anniversary next month, has 
undergone a strategic planning 
process to contemplate its future 
efforts regarding its mission of 

community-engaged learning.

“What does the University need 

us to be now?” she said. “We have 
a rich history, we are an endowed 
center, we’re an important asset to 
the University, but what is needed 
now, 20 years later?”

As a part of the strategic 

planning, 
Callan 
said 
the 

center spoke with faculty and 
community leaders and received 
fairly consistent feedback on 
certain 
topics, 
including 
the 

need to educate students before 
embarking 
on 
community 

projects.

“What we heard: One, we 

need to do more to prepare 
students before they engage with 
the community, really helping 
students understand their own 
identities, where they fit in, their 
own power and privilege,” she 
said. “Because when they go into 
communities, and especially social 

sector organizations … they’re 
disproportionately working with 
folks who are marginalized and 
our students disproportionately 
are not.”

Callan said other areas of 

concern 
included 
cultivating 

and 
maintaining 
relationships 

between 
faculty 
members 

and 
community 
leaders 
and 

facilitating 
these 
connections 

between 
the 
University 
and 

community organizations.

“We’re not trying to be the only 

door; we want to be a clear door in 
and out of the University,” Callan 
said.

Additionally, Callan noted many 

community and faculty members 
felt the center prioritized student 
needs over the center’s needs in 
the past, which she explained 
they hope to avoid in the future 
through renewed efforts.

In 
conjunction 
with 
this 

feedback, the Ginsberg Center 
has 
recently 
hired 
Neeraja 

Aravamudan as the assistant 
director for engaged learning 
with a primary focus on balancing 
community 
engagement. 

Aravamudan 
was 
also 
in 

attendance at the meeting and 
explained how they strive to 
commit to all three components of 
the Ginsberg Center participation: 
students, faculty and community 
partners.

“One of the other things we’re 

doing and we’ve been doing is 
that in every place that we are, we 
mention all of them,” Aravamudan 
said. “One of the things that’s 
really been happening among 
our staff is having conversations 
across those people that are facing 
the different stakeholders. Our 
communication, no matter which 
one of us goes out, is that it’s a 
shared voice … We recognize that 
each stakeholder has different 
interests but that we need to be 
aware that they’re all at play.”

SACUA selects vice chair of body,
discusses goals for Ginsberg Center 

Members also pass resolution stating Senate Assembly’s support of student health

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WHAT: This course will teach 
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change and uncertainty.

WHO: Learning and 
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