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With reputations for seeking out creative, top-quality scholarship, as well as for high editorial and review standards, it is no surprise that AAUP member presses publish a large number of prize-winning books and journals. Scholarly societies, regional institutions, and national literary organizations regularly recognize the publications of university presses for their contributions to the academy and to the wider society. Here you'll find news of some of the recent awards and prizes won by our members.
To submit news of an award please contact Meredith Benjamin, mbenjamin@aaupnet.org.

Prize winning books are listed alphabetically by publisher.
Browse prize announcements here: A - G | H - M | N - S | T - Z

White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
by Margaret D. Jacobs
University of Nebraska Press, 2009

The 2010 Bancroft Award was awarded to Jacobs for her work examining the role of white women in policies of indigenous child-removal.


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Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
by Catherine H. Zuckert
University of Chicago Press, 2009

The 2009 R. R. Hawkins Award, was awarded to the University of Chicago Press for this work by Catherine Zuckert. The award is given for the most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work among the year’s PROSE award winners.


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Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
by Eboo Patel
Beacon Press, 2007

Patel was awarded the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Religion for his book explaining the need to counter the recruitment of youth by religious fundamentalists. The award is presented by the University of Louisville.


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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
by Trita Parsi
Yale University Press, 2007

Parsi has been awarded the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, presented by the University of Louisville, was awarded to Parsi for his book advocating better relations between Iran and Israel as key to improving the situation of the Middle East.


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Nadirs Book Cover2009 Nobel in Literature: Herta Mueller

The German poet and prose writer has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her work is available in translation from Nebraska and Northwestern University Presses, and one of the few critical studies in English is available through Oxford.

Nadirs, 1999. University of Nebraska Press.
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The Land of Green Plums, 1998. Northwestern University Press.
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Traveling on One Leg, 1998. Northwestern University Press.
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Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German, by Lyn Marven, 2005. Oxford University Press.
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Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
by Thomas G. Andrews
Harvard University Press, 2008

Andrews has been awarded the 2009 Bancroft Prize, which recognizes books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography and diplomacy, for this study of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre and the “Great Coalfield War.


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Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
by Juan Felipe Herrera
University of Arizona Press, 2008

Herrera was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Awardfor Poetry for this volume, which includes selections from fourteen of his previous poetry collections in addition to new work.


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The Race Between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
Harvard UP, 2008

The 2008 R. R. Hawkins Award, was awarded to Harvard University Press for this work by Goldin and Katz. The award is given for the most outstanding professional, reference, or scholarly work among the year’s PROSE award winners.


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Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
by Donald W. Shriver
Oxford UP, 2008

Shriver has been awarded the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for this work which suggests that for the United States to progress as a country, its government and people must face and try to repair the damage from its national misdeeds.


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Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power and Democracy
by Michael Johnston
Cambridge UP, 2005

Johnston has been awarded the 2009 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order for this work analyzing both the political and economic aspects of corruption in both "advanced" and developing nations.

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All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
by Stuart B. Schwartz
Yale UP, 2008

Schwartz has been honored with the inaugural Cundill International Prize in History at McGill University. The award is intended for work deemed likely to have "a profound literary, social, and academic impact in the area of history."

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The History of Cartography III: Cartography in the European Renaissance (Parts 1 and 2)
by David Woodward
U of Chicago Press, 2007

Indexer Margie Towery was honored for her work on this volume with the 2008 ASI/H.W. Wilson Excellence in Indexing Award. Towery also won the Wilson Prize in 2002 for The Letters of Matthew Arnold (University of Virginia Press).

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Versed
by Rae Armantrout
Wesleyan University Press, 2009

Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for this double collection of two of her celebrated poetry sequences.


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What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
by Keith E. Stanovich
Yale University Press, 2008

The 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education was awarded to Stanovich for his work on how intelligence tests are incomplete measures of good thinking.


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2009 National Book Award Winner and Finalists

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, by Keith Waldrop, (University of California Press) was awarded the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry for this triptych of related poem sequences.
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University press also books made a strong showing as finalists in various categories of this year's National Book Awards:

Fiction:
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Wayne State University Press
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Nonfiction:
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, Adrienne Mayor, Princeton University Press
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Poetry:
Versed, Rae Armantrout, Wesleyan University Press
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Open Interval, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Pittsburgh University Press
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2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Elinor Ostrom became the first woman awarded the Economics Nobel. Ostrom has been the author, co-author, and editor of books from many AAUP members including Oxford, Princeton, the Russell Sage Foundation, MIT, Cambridge, Island, National Academies, Michigan and Cambridge.
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The 2009 Prize is shared with Oliver E. Williamson, author of books and editor of books from Oxford University Press.

Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
by R. Bruce Elder
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

R. Bruce Elder was awarded the Robert Motherwell Book Award which honors an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts and is granted by the Dedalus Foundation.


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The Comanche Empire
by Pekka Hämäläinen
Yale University Press, 2008

Hämäläinen was awarded the 2009 Bancroft Prize for this work chronicling the indigienous empire of the Comanche Indians. The Prize is awarded to authors of books of exceptional merit in the fields of American history, biography, and diplomacy.


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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
by Seth Lerer
University of Chicago Press, 2008

Lerer was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for this ambitious work that traces the development of children's literature and its influences from ancient to contemporary times.

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Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
by Paul Attewell and David Lavin
Russell Sage Foundation, 2007

Attewell and Lavin have been awarded the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education for this sociological study of the effects of college attendance on the educational and professional success of disadvantaged women and their families.

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What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by Daniel Walker Howe
Oxford UP, 2007

This book was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as several other major recognitions, including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and the Silver Medal for Non-Fiction, California Book Awards.

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Creatures of A Day: Poems
by Reginald Gibbons
LSU Press, 2008

Gibbons was named a 2008 Finalist for the National Book Award for poetry. This is the second year in a row that LSU Press has published an NBA finalist (see below).

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The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems
by David Kirby
LSU Press, 2007

Kirby's latest volume was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award in Poetry, and has been honored with several other awards, including the SIBA Book Award for Poetry and the Gold Medal for Poetry, Florida Book Awards.

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