We are pleased to announce Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican by Deborah E. Kanter is the winner of 2020 Hamlin Garland Prize from the Midwestern History Association. The Hamlin […]
Category: awards
A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2 Awarded J.G Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History
We are pleased to announce A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2: The Conflicted Ozarks by Brooks Blevins is the winner of 2021 of the Arkansas Historical Association’s J. G. […]
Hungry Translations Awarded 2021 International Studies Association’s Global Development Studies Book Award
We are pleased to announce Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability has been selected as the winner of 2021 International Studies Association’s Global Development Studies Book Award. The […]
UI Press Books Named 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
We’re pleased to announce the below books have been named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2020. In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors use the following criteria to review titles: […]
Black Opera Awarded AMS Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award
We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the American Musicological Society’s Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award! The award committee said: “Written […]
Photographic Presidents by Cara Finnegan Given NEH Open Book Award
We’re pleased to announce that Cara A. Finnegan’s forthcoming book, Photographic Presidents: Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital, has been given a National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Award, […]
Media, Geopolitics, and Power Honored with the 2020 UCT Book Award
We are pleased to announce Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South by Herman Wasserman is the winner of the 2020 UCT Book Award. The UCT Book […]
Homeland Maternity Honored with James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award
We are pleased to announce Homeland Maternity: US Security Culture and the New Reproductive Regime by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is the winner of the National Communication Association’s (NCA) James A. Winans-Herbert […]
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay awarded 2020 IASPM Canada Article/Chapter Prize
We are pleased to announce that “Where You Are Accepted, You Blossom: Toward Care Ethics in Jazz Historiography” by Vanessa Blais-Tremblay from Jazz and Culture Vol. 2 has won the 2020 […]
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s […]
Black Opera Awarded Irving Lowens Book Award
We are pleased to announce Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement by Naomi André has won the Society for American Music‘s Irving Lowens Book Award. From the SAM Bulletin:“Focusing on opera, […]
Banjo Roots and Branches Awarded American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize
We are pleased to announce Banjo Roots and Branches edited by Robert B. Winans has won the American Musical Instrument Society’s Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize. The Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize is awarded […]