Kitta’s Book Wins McConnell Award

Dr. Andrea Kitta’s book The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore (Utah State UP, 2019) has been named the winner of the 2020 Brian McConnell Book Award, which is given by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. The purpose of the award is to encourage scholarship in the field, to recognize and inspire standards of excellence in contemporary legend publications, and to commemorate the life and work of Brian McConnell, a longtime member of ISCLR, celebrated crime reporter, author and legend scholar. Andrea is a two-time winner of this award, as her previous book Vaccinations and Public Concern in History: Legend, Rumor, and Risk Perception (Routledge, 2012) was honored in 2012.

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