The University of Illinois Press was honored with seven books named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014.

Eating Together: Food, Friendship, and Inequality, by Alice P. Julier

Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South, Edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai

The Sons of Westwood:John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball, by John Matthew Smith

Intelligently Designed: How Creationists Built the Campaign against Evolution, by Edward Caudill

Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era, by Alex Goodall

Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery, by Katrina Dyonne Thompson

Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage, by Trisha Franzen

This year’s Outstanding Academic Title list includes 651 print books and 39 electronic resources chosen by the Choice editorial staff “for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject.”

Congratulations to these authors and editors and to all the UIP staff who worked on these titles.