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 […]
Category: awards
“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 […]
Congrats to UIP book designer Kelly Gray
The Association of American University Presses has recognized University of Illinois Press book designer Kelly Gray for her work designing Michael Harper’s recent book Use Trouble, which was one of four […]
“Laboring to Learn” wins Cyril O. Houle Award
Lorna Rivera’s recent book, Laboring to Learn: Women’s Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era, has received the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education. It is […]
“Finding Cholita” to receive award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
Billie Jean Isbell’s book, Finding Cholita, will receive the honorable mention award for this year’s Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. The committee was very […]
“Working Girl Blues” wins certificate of merit
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for […]
“A Map of the Night” wins award
David Wagoner’s book, A Map of the Night, has been named winner of the 2009 Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Sponsored by the Washington Center for the Book at […]
“Sojourner Truth’s America” wins award
Margaret Washington’s new book, Sojourner Truth’s America, was one of two 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award winners. Awarded annually by the Association of Black Women Historians, the competition […]
“Cuban Zarzuela” author wins award
The International Alliance for Women in Music recently recognized Susan Thomas, author of Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage, with the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship […]
UIP wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The University of Illinois Press was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent International Country Music Conference in Nashville for our series Music in American Life. Pats on the […]
Midland Authors award winner
Congratulations, John Hallwas. The Society Of Midland Authors has named Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers winner of its 2009 prize in the Biography category. […]