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Category Archives: awards
Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World Wins the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology
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We’re pleased to announce that Building New Banjos for an Old-Time World by Richard Jones-Bamman has won the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology from the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM). The award was announced at the … Continue reading
Chinatown Opera Theater in North America wins AMS Music in American Culture Award
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We’re pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has been awarded the AMS Music in American Culture Award. The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both … Continue reading
Blood, Sweat, and Fear Awarded Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians
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We’re pleased to announce that Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-80 by Jeremy Milloy has been awarded the Cugnot Award from the Society of Automotive Historians. The award committee said: “The historian’s craft … Continue reading
“Chinatown Opera Theater in North America” wins Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music
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We’re pleased to announce that Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao has won a Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Begun in … Continue reading
Michael Heller, editor of “Jazz and Culture”, named as a 2018 ACLS Fellow!
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Congratulations to Michael Heller, the editor of Jazz and Culture, on being named one of the 2018 American Council of Learned Society Fellows! The 2018 ACLS Fellowship was awarded to 78 recipients to [advance] humanistic studies in all fields of … Continue reading
“Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction” By Ylce Irizarry Winner of NACCS Book Award
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We are pleased to announce that Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad by Ylce Irizarry has won the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Book Award, which is given to an outstanding new book in the … Continue reading
“Making an Antislavery Nation” Winner of Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award
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We are pleased to announce that Making an Antislavery Nation: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Battle over Freedom by Graham A. Peck has won the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award from the Illinois State Historical Society for the book of … Continue reading
Beyond Respectability awarded OAH Merle Curti Intellectual History Award
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We are pleased to announce that Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper has won the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Intellectual History Award. The award was announced at the OAH’s annual meeting in … Continue reading
Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid Nominated for 2018 Hugo Awards
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It’s a great day for science fiction at the University of Illinois Press. We’re pleased to announce that Iain M. Banks by Paul Kincaid has been nominated for the 2018 Hugo Awards in the Best-Related Work category! The Hugo Awards are … Continue reading
4 Things You Need to Know at #SCMS18
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Headed to SCMS in Toronto this week? So are we! Here’s what you need to know: 1. We’re giving away 50 copies of Pink-Slipped: What Happened To Women In The Silent Film Industries. Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall and grab … Continue reading
