Book Art Association Presents UA Professor with Emerging Educator Award

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Anna Embree, an associate professor in The University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies book arts program, was awarded the Emerging Educator Award from the College Book Art Association.

This award honors emerging educators who have contributed to the advancement of the broad profession of the book arts through recognized teaching excellence, innovative teaching practices and high quality student work and other contributions.

Founded in 2008, the College Book Art Association supports and promotes academic book arts education by fostering the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.

“Professor Embree has not only made a mark with students in the book arts program, but also at the regional and national levels as being an up and coming leader,” said Steve Miller, professor and coordinator of the book arts program.

“In the studio she is known as a fun-loving but absolutely serious practitioner of her craft with high expectations. She helped start the active southeastern chapter of the Guild of Book Workers, and she has just been elected vice-president of the national organization.”

Embree teaches bookbinding and book structures in the MFA in the book arts program of the School of Library and Information Studies, a unit of the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. The MFA in the book arts program is dedicated to the art, craft and history of the whole book through studio work and academic studies.