Jarod Roll’s book Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South has been awarded the Working Class Studies Association’s 2011 C.L.R. James Award for best published book for academic […]
Category: awards
Restless Giant wins Country Music Book of the Year Award
Bar Biszick-Lockwood’s book Restless Giant: The Life and Times of Jean Aberbach and Hill and Range Songs will receive the Country Music Book of the Year Award by the International Country Music […]
Disappearing Tricks wins Kraszna-Krausz Book Award
Matthew Solomon’s recent University of Illinois Press book Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century was announced the winner the Kraszna-Krausz Best Moving Image […]
“Contesting Archives” wins award
Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz and Mary Elizabeth Perry, was unanimously selected as the recipient of this year’s Barbara “Penny” Kanner […]
Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex wins prize
Stephen John Hartnett’s edited book, Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives, received one of the 2010 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Awards from the National Council […]
National Women’s Studies Association & University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2011 The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a new competition for the best dissertation or first […]
Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! recognized by SCMS
Neepa Majumdar’s book, Wanted Cultured Ladies Only!: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s-1950s will receive an Honorable Mention for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Best First […]
Hands on the Freedom Plow nominated for an NAACP Image Award
Variety reports today that Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work […]
Choice Outstanding Titles
Seven recent University of Illinois Press books have been recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Title: From Papyrus to Hypertext: Toward the Universal Digital Library Author: Christian Vandendorpe, translated by […]
Two books honored by ARSC
Two University of Illinois Press titles, Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers by John Broven and King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records […]
Shadow of the Racketeer wins Labor History award
David Witwer’s book, Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor, has won the journal Labor History‘s prize for the best book on labor history published in 2009. The book tells […]
“Beauty Shop Politics” wins ABWH award
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany Gill was awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for best publication from the Association of Black […]