Van de Water
Manon van de Water, a professor of theatre research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has won the American Alliance for Theatre and Education's 2013 Distinguished Book of the Year award for "Theatre, Youth, and Culture: A Critical and Historical Exploration" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Van de Water has been a faculty member at UW-Madison since 1998. Her latest book builds on her ongoing research on the place and function of theatre for youth in society.