Congratulations to Jonathan R. Eller whose book Becoming Ray Bradbury was announced as a finalist for a 2012 Locus Award in the category of Non-fiction. Other nominees in the category include […]
Category: awards
UIP’s Judy McCulloh wins ARSC award
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections has honored former University of Illinois Press Executive Editor Judy McCulloh with the 2011 Award for Distinguished Service to Historical Recordings. From the ARSC site: After […]
Vote for Becoming Ray Bradbury
Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field, has released its list of nominees for the 42nd annual Locus Awards. Jonathan Eller’s critically acclaimed Becoming Ray Bradbury has […]
Scripting Hitchcock nominated for an Edgar
We are excited to announce that the recently published University of Illinois Press book Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick has been nominated […]
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Three University of Illinois Press books were selected for inclusion in Choice magazine’s annual Outstanding Academic Title list, which will appear in the January 2012 issue of Choice. Benching Jim Crow: […]
Gone to the Country wins ARSC award
Ray Allen’s book, Gone to the Country: The New Lost City Ramblers and the Folk Music Revival has been awarded a Certificate of Merit in the 2011 ARSC Awards in […]
Recent UIP titles win ARSC awards
Two titles recently published by the University of Illinois Press have won ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) awards. Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberback and Hill […]
Cuban Zarzuela wins AMS award
Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havanna’s Lyric Stage by Susan Thomas was awarded the Robert M. Stevenson Award presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS) for outstanding scholarship […]
“Spirit of Rebellion” wins Missouri History Book Award
Dr. Jarod Roll received the 2011 Missouri History Book Award at a ceremony in Columbia’s Tiger Hotel on November 5. Roll won the award for his book, Spirit of Rebellion: […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow wins a Letitia Woods Brown Book Award
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in the SNCC was selected as one of this year’s winners of the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, sponsored by the Association […]
Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology wins the Ungar German Translation Award
Robert E. Norton’s translation of Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology by Ernst Bertram is the winner of the Ungar German Translation Award presented by the American Translators Association. The ATA’s […]
Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies wins James W. Carey Research Award
Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies, edited by Linda Steiner and Clifford Christians, has been awarded the James W. Carey Research Award from the Carl Couch Center. The award recognizes […]