honors Aptheker received the 2004 "Award for Excellence in Education" by the California chapter of the National Organization for Women (CA NOW). In 2012, she was co-appointment with Karen Yamashita to the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; a position offered to distinguished members of the university's faculty intended to encourage new or interdisciplinary program development. She received the 2017 John Dizikes Teaching Award in Humanities and the inaugural appointee of the endowed Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies. External links Google Books – Intimate Politics Bettina Aptheker Papers — UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives MetroActive profile UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Faculty Page Christopher Phelps, "Father of History," The Nation, Nov. 5, 2007 (subscriber only) with Bettina Apthker by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s Footnotes 1944 births Living people Writers from Berkeley, California University of California, Berkeley alumni San Jose State University alumni University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Feminist studies scholars Jewish American writers American lesbian writers Lesbian Jews LGBT people from North Carolina Members of the Communist Party USA University of California, Santa Cruz alumni Communist women writers Activists from New York (state) Activists from California People from Fort Bragg, North Carolina Writers from Brooklyn Free speech activists