Jennifer Leigh Disney '93 receives McDaniel Alumni Professional Achievement Award
JENNIFER LEIGH DISNEY RECEIVES ALUMNI PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM McDANIEL COLLEGE
Disney of Rock Hill, S.C., is a 1993 alumna of the college
WESTMINSTER, Md. – Jennifer Leigh Disney of Rock Hill, S.C., has received the alumni professional achievement award from McDaniel College. She is a 1993 alumna of the college.
Presented annually during McDaniel’s Homecoming, the alumni professional achievement award is presented to a graduate who has gained distinction in his/her chosen field or profession and whose accomplishments reflect admirably on McDaniel College.
Disney graduated from McDaniel with a bachelor’s degree in both political science and psychology. She earned Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy degrees, as well as a Ph.D. with distinction in political science, from the City University of New York.
She is currently a full professor and chair of the political science department and the director of the women and gender studies program at Winthrop University. She has served as the founding director for the Office of Nationally Competitive Awards at Winthrop.
She has written numerous papers and presentations for national conferences and has served on many professional panels. Her book, “Women’s Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua,” was published by Temple University. She also co-authored the article “Militarism and Its Discontents: Neoliberalism, Repression, and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century US–Latin American Relations.” Disney served as co-editor of “New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture,” the official journal of the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association and the Caucus for a New Political Science.
She has received numerous awards, including a Christian Bay Best Paper Award by the American Political Science Association and the Carolyn Heilbrun Women’s Studies Dissertation Award from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She also earned a Presidential Citation Community Service Award from Winthrop. For five years, Disney served as president of the board of A Place for Hope, a community resource center of the Blackmon Road community.
