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Issues in Scholarly Publishing
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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 good 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 these books. To submit news of an award please contact the Communications Coordinator. Prize winning books are listed alphabetically by publisher.
The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded to Daniel Walker Howe for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press). This book has won several other major awards, including the New York Historical Society American History Book Prize and the Silver Medal for Non-Fiction at the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Margie Towery has won the 2008 ASI/H.W. Wilson Excellence in Indexing Award for her index to The History of Cartography, volume three: Cartography
in the European Renaissance, parts 1 and 2, edited by David Woodward (University of Chicago Press). University of Chicago Press was also recognized in the award. Towery also won the Wilson Prize in 2002 for The Letters of Matthew
Arnold (University of Virginia Press). The American Society for Indexing/Wilson Award was established to recognize the normally anonymous
indexers and the publishers who provide high-quality indexes to serve The 2007 National Book Critics Circle prize in Biography has been awarded to Tim Jeal's Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer (Yale). What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe and published by Oxford University Press, was also nominated for an NBCC award in the Non-fiction category. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore for their research. The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report was published by Cambridge University Press in three volumes, The Physical Science Basis; Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability; and Mitigation of Climate Change. The 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award has been awarded to James R. Otteson for his book, Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press). James Otteson is a professor of economics and philosophy at Yeshiva University. The Templeton Enterprise Award is given annually for books and articles on the culture of enterprise by scholars under 40. Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gilliam, and Stephanie M. Jones have won the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book, A Vision for Universal Preschool Education (Cambridge). The Grawemeyer Foundation awards up to $1 million annually in five categories, each carrying a $200,000 prize. The University of Louisville has announced that the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award for Improving World Order will go to Philip Tetlock, a professor of business administration at the University of California at Berkeley, for his 2005 book, Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (Princeton University Press). The Bancroft Prize for 2007, among the most prestigious in the field of history, was awarded to Jack Temple Kirby for Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (University of North Carolina Press). The Bancroft Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University in the City of New York for books published in 2006. The 2007 Pulitzer Prize committee nominated two works of university presses for awards this year. In Poetry, David Wojahn was nominated for Interrogation Palace: New & Selected Poems 1982-2004 (University of Pittsburgh Press). Arthur H. Cash was nominated in the History category for his book, John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty, from Yale University Press. The 2006 Donner Prize for top Canadian book in public policy, a $35,000 prize, was awarded to Towards North American Monetary Union? The Politics and History of Canada's Exchange Rate Regime by Eric Helleiner (McGill-Queen's University Press). Eric Helleiner is an associate professor in the University of Waterloo’s Political Science department and Chair in International Governance at Waterloo’s Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). The 2006 Pulitzer Prize committee awarded several works of university presses this year. In Poetry, the Pulitzer went to Late Wife by Claudia Emerson (Louisiana State University Press). Also nominated as a finalist in the Poetry category was The University of Pittsburgh Press's Elegy on Toy Piano by Dean Young. Oxford University Press's Polio: An American Story, by David M. Oshinsky, won the History award. The Bancroft Prize for 2006, among the most prestigious in the field of history, was awarded to Erskine Clarke, for Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic (Yale University Press). The National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism went to author William Logan, for his book The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (Columbia University Press, 2005). William Logan is professor of English at the University of Florida. He has published seven books of poetry and four works of criticism. He has won the Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. The 2006 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order has been awarded to Fiona Terry for her 2002 book, Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action published by Cornell University Press. The Grawemeyer Foundation awards up to $1 million annually in five categories; "ideas improving world order" includes a $200,000 prize. This is the fifth Grawemeyer award for Cornell University Press publication. The Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Nation magazine goes to The Displaced of Capital by Anne Winters (University of Chicago Press, 2004) this year. The $25,000 award goes to the best book of poetry published in the U.S. during the previous year. Winters's previous book of poetry, The Key to the City , was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986. Current U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall was the founding editor of the "Poets on Poetry" series from AAUP member University of Michigan Press and edited The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems anthology for Oxford University Press. He has also published several books of essays on poetry with Michigan, most recently 2003's Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected. More details of Hall's books, as well as other U.S. Poets Laureates published by university presses… Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, has published books with several AAUP members. Three of his earliest collections of poetry were published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, and his poetry has also found a home at Carnegie Mellon University Press. Kooser's award-winning memoir, Local Wonders, was published in 2002 by the University of Nebraska Press. Nebraska will publish his forthcoming The Poetry Home Repair Manual. More details of Kooser's books, as well as other U.S. Poets Laureates published by university presses… |
