Category Archives: awards

July 2, 2021

American Music article wins the Irving Lowens Article Award

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We want to offer our congratulations to American Music authors Katie A. Callam, Makiko Kimoto, Misako Ohta and Carol J. Oja for recently earning the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. Citation from the prize committee: … Continue reading →

June 3, 2021

Chicago Católico Awarded Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History

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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 Garland Prize in Popular History honors a work of popular … Continue reading →

May 25, 2021

A History of the Ozarks, Volume 2 Awarded J.G Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History

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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. Ragsdale Book Award in Arkansas History. The J. G. Ragsdale … Continue reading →

March 25, 2021

Hungry Translations Awarded 2021 International Studies Association’s Global Development Studies Book Award

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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 award will be announced in the DGS newsletter as well … Continue reading →

January 27, 2021

UI Press Books Named 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

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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: overall excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other … Continue reading →

December 10, 2020

Black Opera Awarded AMS Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award

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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 with a critical eye and ear while also maintaining accessibility, … Continue reading →

November 25, 2020

Photographic Presidents by Cara Finnegan Given NEH Open Book Award

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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, a special initiative for scholarly presses to make recent monographs … Continue reading →

November 2, 2020

Media, Geopolitics, and Power Honored with the 2020 UCT Book Award

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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 Award recognizes outstanding books written by members of staff. The … Continue reading →

October 5, 2020

Homeland Maternity Honored with James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award

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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 A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and … Continue reading →

July 17, 2020

Vanessa Blais-Tremblay awarded 2020 IASPM Canada Article/Chapter Prize

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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 International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Canada … Continue reading →