As we announced in our January-March 2013 issue, the publisher and editor of the Journal of Teaching in Social Work inaugurated an annual Florence W. Vigilante Award in honor of its founding editor. As a lasting tribute to Dr. Vigilante, this award will recognize the best article published in the preceding year.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Seventh Annual Florence W. Vigilante Award are the authors of the article titled, “Queering the Social Work Classroom: Strategies for Increasing the Inclusion of LGBTQ Persons and Experiences,” which was published in Volume 38, Issue 2 (2018). This article argues persuasively for greater attention to LGBTQ perspectives and experiences in the classroom to prepare graduates to practice effectively.
We congratulate coauthors M. Alex Wagaman and Rebecca Carter of Virginia Commonwealth University and Jama Shelton of Hunter College [CUNY]. In recognition of the importance of their contribution, we have posted the entire article online at www.tandfonline.com/WTSW and made it available as a free download in PDF format for printing.
We are very proud of Professors Wagaman and Shelton and Ms. Carter, and of their seminal contribution to the scholarship of our profession. They are worthy recipients of the Seventh Annual Florence W. Vigilante Award.