VSU professor wins literary awards

Wesley C. Hogan, associate professor of history at Virginia State University, was recently awarded three major literary honors for her book "Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America."

Hogan won the Lillian Smith Book Award and is a finalist in the 11th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards' "best nonfiction about Virginia or by a Virginia author" category. Her book also received the Peace History Society's Scott Bills Memorial Prize.

Hogan's book explores the historic changes the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created in the American South between 1960 and 1965.

Hogan, who focuses on the history of social movements, African-American history, women's history and oral history at VSU, is co-director of VSU's Institute for the Study of Race Relations. The Institute aims to galvanize community organizers, researchers and young leaders to enhance society.

She lives in Richmond with her husband and four children.