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Issues in Scholarly Publishing
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Prize winning books are listed alphabetically by publisher.
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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.  Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. The Land of Green Plums, 1998. Northwestern University Press. Traveling on One Leg, 1998. Northwestern University Press. Body and Narrative in Contemporary Literatures in German, by Lyn Marven, 2005. Oxford University Press.
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
Herrera was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for this volume, which includes selections from fourteen of his previous poetry collections in addition to new work. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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.
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." 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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Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for this double collection of two of her celebrated poetry sequences. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
The 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education was awarded to Stanovich for his work on how intelligence tests are incomplete measures of good thinking. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
2009 National Book Award Winner and Finalists Fiction: Nonfiction: Poetry: Open Interval, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Pittsburgh University Press 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. The 2009 Prize is shared with Oliver E. Williamson, author of books and editor of books from Oxford University Press.
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Shop Locally or Buy at Amazon.com 
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. Passing the 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.
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.
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).
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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Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
2009 Nobel in Literature: Herta Mueller
Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War 
Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems
The Race Between Education and Technology
Honest Patriots:
Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power and Democracy
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
The History of Cartography III: Cartography in the European Renaissance (Parts 1 and 2)
Versed
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
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Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
The Comanche Empire
Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Creatures of A Day: Poems 
The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems