A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 by Nancy C. Carnevale was selected as a winner of an American Book Award for 2010. The book examines […]
Category: awards
Judy McCulloh, NEA honoree
Woo hoo! Retired University of Illinois Press acquisitions editor Judy McCulloh will be one of 18 artists to receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts. […]
“Radio’s Hidden Voice” wins AEJMC award
Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States by Hugh Richard Slotten is the winner of the 2009 Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication given […]
Normative Theories of the Media wins award
Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies by Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L. Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng and Robert A. White is the winner of this year’s Frank […]
Staley hat trick
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking has received an Award of Superior Achievement from The Illinois State Historical Society. This is […]
“Staley” wins another award
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking has been awarded the C.L.R. James Prize for Best Book in Working-Class Studies by […]
Four UIP books nominated for ARSC awards
Four University of Illinois Press books published in 2009 were announced as award finalists by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC). Best Research in Recorded Rock and Pop Music John […]
UIP author wins Guggenheim Fellowship
The UIUC News Bureau reports that Antoinette Burton, co-editor of the recent University of Illinois Press book Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire, has […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins the Darlene Clark Hine Award
Margaret Washington’s book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was selected as winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history. […]
“Staley” wins award
Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement by Steven K. Ashby and C.J. Hawking, has tied for Best Book related to the field of Labor Studies published in […]
“African or American?” wins award
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 by Leslie M. Alexander, has been awarded the Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the […]
“Sweet Tyranny” wins Wentworth Award
Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics by Kathleen Mapes is the winner of the 2010 Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois award in American History. This award for the best […]