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2013 Award Winners
TAX CHEATING: Illegal--But Is It Immoral? Donald Morris • Category Finalist - 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards, presented by Hopewell Publications
FROM THE SHAHS TO LOS ANGELES: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Saba Soomekh • GOLD MEDALIST - 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion category
HIDING PLACES: A Mother, a Daughter, an Uncovered Life Diane Wyshogrod • Finalist - 2013 Montaigne Medal, presented by Hopewell Publications
MASKED VOICES: Gay Men and Lesbians in Cold War America Craig M. Loftin • Finalist – 2013 Over the Rainbow Selection, presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: Hidden Brutality in the Lives of Women Joshua M. Price • GOLD MEDALIST - 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women’s Studies category
2012 Award Winners Back to Top
TAX CHEATING: Illegal--But Is It Immoral? Donald Morris • Finalist – 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Political Science Category
FAIRY TALES FRAMED: Early Forewords, Afterwords, and Critical Words Ruth B. Bottigheimer • 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDINGS OF A GOOD DEATH IN HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE Harold Coward and Kelli I. Stajduhar • 2012 AJN (American Journal of Nursing) Book of the Year Award in the Hospice and Palliative Care category
MEDIAEVALIA: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval Studies Worldwide Dana E. Stewart • 2012 Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement, presented by The Council of Editors of Learned Journals
TRANSNATIONAL REVERSED: Women Organizing against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh Elora Halim Chowdhury • 2012 Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize presented by the National Women’s Studies Association
EPISODES FROM A HUDSON RIVER TOWN: New Baltimore, New York Clesson S. Bush • 2012 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network.
ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE HUDSON RIVER: Human Uses that Changed the Ecology, Ecology that Changed Human Uses Robert E. Henshaw • 2012 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network
MAURICE KENNY: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer Penelope Myrtle Kelsey • 2012 Best Critical Book Award presented by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Assn.
DOCUMENTS IN CRISIS: Nonfiction Literatures in Twentieth-Century Mexico Beth E. Jörgensen • 2012 Best Book in the Humanities, presented by the Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Assn.
PANCAKE HOLLOW PRIMER: A Hudson Valley Story Laurence Carr • 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the First Novel Category (under 8,000 words)
PRECARIOUS LIBERATION: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa Franco Barchiesi • 2012 CLR James Award, presented by the Working Class Studies Association
PERFORMING SEX: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives Breanne Fahs • SILVER MEDALIST - 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women's Issues category
LIVING CONSCIOUSNESS: The Metaphysical Vision of Henri Bergson G. William Barnard • 2012 Godbey Authors' Awards, presented by the Godbey Lecture Series in Southern Methodist University's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences
DETECTING WOMEN: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film Philippa Gates • FINALIST – 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical Category, presented by the Mystery Writers of America
2011 Award Winners Back to Top
SIX WEEKS IN SARATOGA: How Three-Year-Old Filly Rachel Alexandra Beat the Boys and Became Horse of the Year Brendan O'Meara • SEMIFINALIST – 2011 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, presented by Castleton Lyons and Thoroughbred Times
PERFORMING SEX: The Making and Unmaking of Women's Erotic Lives Breanne Fahs • FINALIST – 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women’s Issues Category
FEMINISM'S NEW AGE: Gender, Appropriation, and the Afterlife of Essentialism Karlyn Crowley • FINALIST – 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Women’s Issues Category
SHAME THE DEVIL: A Novel Debra Brenegan • FINALIST – 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Historical Fiction Category
THE ANARCHIST BASTARD: Growing Up Italian in America Joanna Clapps Herman • FINALIST – 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category
KILIAEN VAN RENSSELEAR (1586-1643): Designing a New World Janny Venema • 2011 Annual Hendricks Award, presented by the New Netherland Institute
CHINA'S AMERIICA: The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000 Jing Li • 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title • 2011 Best Book Award, presented by the Chinese American Librarians Association
OEDIPUS: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis Juan-David Nasio: David Pettigrew and François Raffoul, translators • 2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL: Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts Brenda K. Bushouse • 2011 Virginia A. Hodgkinson Book Prize, presented by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
A MEASURE OF FAILURE: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing Mark J. Garrison • 2011 Critics Choice Award, presented by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
BREAKING INTO THE ALL-MALE CLUB: Female Professors of Educational Administration Norma T. Mertz • 2011 Critics Choice Award, presented by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
SHROUDS OF WHITE EARTH Gerald Vizenor • 2011 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation
SPIRIT, THE FAMILY, AND THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY David V. Ciavatta • HONORABLE MENTION - 2011 Biennial Book Prize, presented by the Canadian Philosophical Association
RIVER OF WORDS: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers Nina Shengold and Jennifer May • SILVER MEDALIST - 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards in U.S. North-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction Category.
THE MAN WHO SAVED NEW YORK: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975 Seymour P. Lachman and Robert Polner •2011 Empire State History Book Award, presented by New York State Archives Partnership Trust
2010 Award Winners Back to Top
THE FAILURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY?: The Third Sector and the State in Contemporary Japan Akihiro Ogawa • 2010 Japan NPO Research Association Book Award
IMPROVING URBAN MIDDLE SCHOOLS: Lessons from the Nativity Schools L. Mickey Fenzel • 2010 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award in the category of "The Professional Studies”, presented by Association of Jesuit Colleges and University and Alpha Sigma Nu
THE BODY IN MEDICAL CULTURE Elizabeth Klaver • 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A MEASURE OF FAILURE: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing Mark J. Garrison • 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
SOMETHING AKIN TO FREEDOM: The Choice of Bondage in Narratives by African American Women Stephanie Li • 2010 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE SPECTER OF SEX: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States Sally L. Kitch • Top Three Finalist - 2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association
THE POLITICS OF INQUIRY: Education Research and the "Culture of Science" Benjamin Baez and Deron Boyles • 2010 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
LITERACY WITH AN ATTITUDE, Second Edition: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest Patrick J. Finn • 2010 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
MAIN STREET TO MAINFRAMES: Landscape and Social Change in Poughkeepsie Harvey K. Flad and Clyde Griffen • 2010 Helen Wilkinson Reynolds Award, presented by Dutchess County Historical Society
KNIFE SONG KOREA: A Novel Richard Selzer • Award-Winning Finalist in the Fiction & Literature: Literary Fiction category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News • SILVER MEDALIST - 2010 Independent Publishers Book Award in Literary Fiction Category
HUDSON RIVER PANORAMA: A Passage through Time Tammis K. Groft, W. Douglas McCombs, and Ruth Greene-McNally • Award-Winning Finalist in the Best Interior Design category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News • Award-Winning Finalist in the Best Cover Design category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News
WE USED TO OWN THE BRONX: Memoirs of a Former Debutante Eve Pell • Award-Winning Finalist in the Autobiography/Memoirs category of the “Best Books 2010” Awards, sponsored by USA Book News
GIRLS, FEMINISM, AND GRASSROOTS: Activism in the GirlZone Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau • 2010 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, presented by The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
REFORM AND RESISTANCE: Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture Helene Schenk • HONORABLE MENTION - 2010 First Book Prize, presented by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
GOING BLIND: A Memoir Mara Faulkner, OSB • FINALIST - 2010 Minnesota Book Award, presented by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
2009 Award Winners Back to Top
KNIFE SONG KOREA: A Novel Richard Selzer • 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Fiction by Foreword Magazine
THE VERY THOUGHT OF EDUCATION: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Professions Deborah P. Britzman • 2009 Gary A. Olson Award, presented by JAC–a journal of rhetoric, culture, and politics
ONCE AN ENGINEER: A Song of the Salt City Joe Amato • FINALIST - 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category
WE USED TO OWN THE BRONX: Memoirs of a Former Debutante Eve Pell • FINALIST - 2009 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category
STAIRWAY TO EMPIRE: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America Patrick McGreevy • 2009 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives presented by the Board of Regents and the New State York Archives
BYROMANIA AND THE BIRTH OF CELEBRITY: Nutrition in America Ghislaine McDayter • 2009 Elma Dangerfield Award, presented by the International Byron Society
MEASURED MEALS: Nutrition in America Jessica J. Mudry • 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
DIGITAL DIASPORA: A Race for Cyberspace Anna Everett • 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE POLITICS OF INQUIRY: Education Research and the "Culture of Science" Benjamin Baez and Deron Boyles • 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE LEBANESE ARMY: A National Institution in a Divided Society Oren Barak • 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
FAIRY TALES: A New History Ruth B. Bottigheimer • 2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
PORTABLE COMMUNITIES: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness Mary Chayko • RUNNER-UP – 2009 Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award
UNSPEAKABLE SECRETS AND THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF CULTURE Esther Rashkin • 2009 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
GO, TELL MICHELLE: African American Women Write to the New First Lady Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram • 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, in the category of edited volume, presented by the Association of Black Women Historians
NOW PLAYING: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun Paul S. Moore • 2009 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize presented by the Canadian Communication Association
TWENTY WEST: The Great Road Across America Mac Nelson • Gold Medal - 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category
SHARING THE WEALTH: Member Contributions and the Exchange Theory of Party Influence in the U.S. House of Representatives Damon M. Cann • 2009 Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize of the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association
2008 Award Winners Back to Top
GIRLS, FEMINISM, AND GRASSROOTS: Activism in the GirlZone Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau • 2008 Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship presented by Reflections - A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy
IN THE NAME OF TERRORISM: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era Carol K. Winkler • 2008 Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association
IMPOSSIBLE DEMOCRACY: The Unlikely Success of the War on Poverty Community Action Programs Noel A. Cazenave • HONORABLE MENTION - 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award, presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights in North America
REAL GAZE, THE: Film Theory after Lacan Todd McGowan • 2008 Gradiva Award, Theoretical Category, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
STRENGTHENING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL PIPELINE: Informing Research, Policy, and Practice Jerlando F. L. Jackson • 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
INTERNATIONAL ELIADE, THE Bryan Rennie • 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
OUT OF PLAY: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport Michael A. Messner • 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Author of America Gilbert H. Muller • 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
YOGA AND THE LUMINOUS: Patañjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom Christopher Key Chapple • 2008 Rajinder and Jyoti Gandhi Book Award for Excellence in Dharma Studies presented by Taksha Institute
ON SPIRITUAL STRIVINGS: Transforming an African American Woman's Academic Life Cynthia B. Dillard • 2008 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
GETTING LOST: Feminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science Patti Lather • 2008 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
EXPELLING HOPE: The Assault on Youth and the Militarization of Schooling Christopher G. Robbins • 2008 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
ANNE SEXTON: Teacher of Weird Abundance Paula M. Salvio and Madeleine R. Grumet • 2008 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
INTELLIGENCE OF FLOWERS, THE Maurice Maeterlinck • Winner of the 2008 Prix de la Traduction Littéraire presented by French Community of Belgium
HUDSON VALLEY VOYAGE: Through the Seasons, Through the Years Ted Spiegel and Reed Sparling • 2008 Bronze Medal in the Twelfth Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. Regional Northeast Non-Fiction Category
STORIES OF THE EIGHT-YEAR STUDY: Reexamining Secondary Education in America Craig Kridel and Robert V. Bullough Jr. • Winner of the 2008 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award
2007 Award Winners Back to Top
DRUNK FROM THE BITTER TRUTH: The Poems of Anna Margolin Anna Margolin Translated, Edited, and with an Introduction by Shirley Kumove • 2007 Runner Up of the National Jewish Book Award in Poetry
ZION IN THE DESERT: American Jews in Israel's Reform Kibbutzim William F. S. Miles • 2007 Runner Up of the National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought & Experience
CRITICAL POWER TOOLS: Technical Communications and Cultural Studies J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V. Wills, editors • 2007 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Award for Best Collection of Essays on Technical and Scientific Communication
GRAPPLING WITH THE GOOD: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schools Robert Kunzman • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHET: Charisma and Religious Authority in Shi'ite Islam Liyakat N. Takim • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
HONG MAI'S RECORD OF THE LISTENER AND ITS SONG DYNASTY CONTEXT Alister D. Inglis • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
IMPERIALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Colonial Discourses of Rights and Liberties in African History Bonny Ibhawoh • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
JOHN DEWEY AND OUR EDUCATIONAL PROSPECT: A Critical Engagement with Dewey's Democracy and Education David T. Hansen • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
AWAKENING WARRIOR: Revolution in the Ethics of Warfare Timothy L. Challans • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE TROUBLE WITH CULTURE: How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars F. Allan Hanson • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPATIAL INEQUALITIY Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks, and Ann R. Tickamyer, editors • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
REPUBLIC OF READERS?: The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis Simon Stow • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE ADVAITA WORLDVIEW: God, World, and Humanity Anantanand Rambachan • 2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
THE PARTICIPATING CITIZEN: A Biography of Alfred Schutz Michael D. Barber • 2007 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology presented by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology with interest from a fund raised from Professor Ballard's family, students, and friends.
PERFORMING AND REFORMING LEADERS: Gender, Educational Restructuring, and Organizational Change Jill Blackmore and Judyth Sachs • 2007 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
MEXICANS AND HISPANOS IN COLORADO SCHOOLSS AND COMMUNITIES, 1920-1960 Ruben Donato • 2007 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
LATE TO CLASS: Social Class and Schooling in the New Economy Jane A. Van Galen and George W. Noblit, editors • 2007 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
DRUNK FROM THE BITTER TRUTH: The Poems of Anna Margolin Anna Margolin; Translated by Shirley Kumove • 2007 Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish presented by the Helen and Stan Vine Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards
THE FAMILY FLAMBOYANT: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives Marla Brettschneider • Bronze Medal - 2007 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Gay/Lesbian Category
SCRIPTING THE BLACK MASCULINE BODY: Identity, Discourse, and Racial Politics in Popular Media Ronald L. Jackson II • 2007 Everett Lee Hunt Award presented by the Eastern Communication Association
NEW YORK'S HISTORIC ARMORIES: An Illustrated History Nancy L. Todd • 2007 Building Typology Award presented by the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America • 2007 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award presented by the Preservation League of New York State
THE GIFT OF THE OTHER: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction Lisa Guenther • 2007 Symposium Book Award presented by Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
2006 Award Winners Back to Top
DENIAL, NEGATION, AND THE FORCES OF THE NEGATIVE: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, and Sophocles Wilfried Ver Eecke • FINALIST - 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship presented by the Section on Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association
C. I. LEWIS: The Last Great Pragmatist Murray G. Murphey • 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
CULTURALLY CONTESTED PEDAGOGY: Battles of Literacy and Schooling between Mainstream Teachers and Asian Immigrant Parents Guofang Li • 2006 Edward Fry Book Award presented by the National Reading Conference
POLITICS IN THE NEW SOUTH: Representation of African Americans in Southern State Legislatures Charles E. Menifield and Stephen D. Shaffer, editors • 2006 V.O. Key Award presented by the Southern Political Science Association
JULIA KRISTEVA: Psychoanalysis and Modernity Sara Beardsworth • HONORABLE MENTION – 2006 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship for the best book published in 2004, presented by the Section on Psychoanalysis of the Canadian Psychological Association
BEYOND SILENCED VOICES: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, Revised Edition Lois Weis and Michelle Fine, editors • 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
CHICANA/LATINA EDUCATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Feminista Perspectives on Pedagogy and Epistemology Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, Francisca E. Godinez, Sofia Villenas, editors • 2006 AESA Critics’ Choice Awards (American Educational Studies Association)
FIT TO TEACH: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century Jackie M. Blount • HONORABLE MENTION - 2006 History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award
THE WAR THAT WASN'T: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865-1900 Benjamin Justice • FINALIST - 2006 History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award
CITIZEN TEACHER: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley Kate Rousmaniere • FINALIST - 2006 History of Education Society’s Outstanding Book Award
ON AUSTRIAN SOIL: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate Sondra Perl • FINALIST - 2006 Independent Publishers Book Award in the Autobiography/Memoir category
BURIED CAESARS, AND OTHER SECRETS OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING Robert Viscusi • 2006 Pietro Di Donato and John Fante Literary Award from The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Italy, New York State
CALLING CARDS: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins • 2006 Nancy Dasher Award for Best Book on Professional and Pedagogical Issues
STRUGGLES OVER DIFFERENCE: Curriculum, Texts, and Pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific Yoshiko Nozaki, Roger Openshaw, and Allan Luke • 2006 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award
2005 Award Winners Back to Top
IN THE GAME: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity Eric Anderson • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
BASHO'S HAIKU: Selected Poems of Matsuo Basho Matsuo Basho and David Landis Barnhill • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
JAILBAIT: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States Carolyn Cocca • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
EXQUISITE REBEL: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, and Crispin Sartwell • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
THROUGH THE READING GLASS: Women, Books, and Sex in the French Enlightenment Suellen Diaconoff • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
JFK, LBJ, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Sean J. Savage • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
SOCIALIZATION TO CIVIL SOCIETY: A Life History Study of Community Leaders Peter Robert Sawyer • 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
THE FRENCH CONNECTION IN CRIMINOLOGY: Rediscovering Crime, Law, and Social Change Bruce A. Arrigo, Dragan Milovanovic, and Robert Carl Schehr • 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
THE WAR THAT WASN'T: Religious Conflict and Compromise in the Common Schools of New York State, 1865-1900 Benjamin Justice • 2005 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives presented by the Board of Regents and the New York State Archives
CITIZEN TEACHER: The Life and Leadership of Margaret Haley Kate Rousmaniere • 2005 AESA Critics’ Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
FIT TO TEACH: Same-sex desire, gender, and school work in the twentieth century. Jackie Blount • 2005 AESA Critics’ Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
THE LANGUAGE OF BATTERED WOMEN: A Rhetorical Analysis of Personal Theologies Carol L. Winkelmann • 2005 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)
HUMAN EXPERIENCE: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life John Russon • Co-winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association's 2005 Biennial Book Prize for the best philosophy book published in English
DECOLONIZING RESEARCH IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXTS Critical Personal Narratives Kagendo Mutua and Beth Blue Swadener, editors • 2005 Outstanding Narrative Research Book presented by the Narrative Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association
TALE OF TWO FACTIONS, A: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen Jane Hathaway • Winner of The Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award
2004 Award Winners Back to Top
BEVERWIJCK: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664 Janny Venema • 2004 Annual Archives Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the New York State Archives presented by the Board of Regents and the New State York Archives.
LOGIC OF SEXUATION, THE: From Aristotle to Lacan Ellie Ragland • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
POWER OF REINFORCEMENT, THE Stephen Ray Flora • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
END OF DISSATISFACTION?, THE: Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment Todd McGowan • 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JAC
DEMOCRACY GROWING UP: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America Laura Janara • Finalist—2004 C.B. Macpherson Prize presented by the Canadian Political Science Association
KINDNESS AND THE GOOD SOCIETY: Connections of the Heart William S. Hamrick • Winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology with interest from a fund raised from Professor Ballard's family, students, and friends
NELIDA Marie d'Agoult, Author; Daniel Stern, Pen name; Lynn Hoggard, Translator • 2004 Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation presented by the Texas Institute of Letters
SELFHOOD AND AUTHENTICITY Corey Anton • The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, presented by the Media Ecology Association
TEACHING COOPERATIVE LEARNING: The Challenge for Teacher Education Elizabeth G. Cohen, Celeste M. Brody, and Mara Sapon-Shevin, editors • 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
WALLS AND BRIDGES: Social Justice and Public Policy Anthony J. Cortese • 2004 AESA Critics' Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
WRITING POWER: Communication in an Engineering Center Dorothy A. Winsor • Winner of the 2004 Distinguished Publication on Business Communication presented by the Association of Business Communication
2003 Award Winners Back to Top
PERFORMING WHITENESS: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema Gwendolyn Audrey Foster • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
RELOCATING AGENCY: Modernity and African Letters Olakunle George • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
RETHINKING STANDARDS THROUGH TEACHER PREPARATION PARTNERSHIPS Gary A. Griffin, editor • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
CLASSICAL HORIZONS: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece George E. McCarthy • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
COLOR OF RAPE: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres Sujata Moorti • Honorable Mention--2003 Myers Outstanding Book Award presented by The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
DEMOCRACY GROWING UP: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America Laura Janara • Best First Book Award presented by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association
MAIMONIDES AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF CONCEALMENT: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed James Arthur Diamond • Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship from the Canadian Jewish Book Awards Committee
POSTFEMINIST NEWS: Political Women in Media Culture Mary Douglas Vavrus • 2003 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association
RENEWING HOPE WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS OF DESPAIR: The Community-Based Development Model Herbert J. Rubin • Honorable Mention: 2003 Paul Davidoff Award presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
2002 Award Winners Back to Top
ART, ALIENATION, AND THE HUMANITIES: A Critical Engagement with Herbert Marcuse Charles Reitz • 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Award
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Addressing Gender Equity in Special Education Harilyn Rousso and Michael L. Wehmeyer, editors • Choice Outstanding Academic Title
ISAAC ABARBANEL'S STANCE TOWARD TRADITION: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue Eric Lawee • Winner of the Nauchman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship--Presented at the 14th Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards • Finalist, Scholarship Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award, from the National Jewish Book Council
LABOR IN RETREAT: Class and Community among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871-1929 Youngsoo Bae • Winner of the 2002 Publications/Scholarly category from the Illinois State Historical Society and Association of Illinois Museums and Historical Societies Awards Program
"WHITENESS JUST ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE": White Identity in a Changing South Africa Melissa Steyn • Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book Award, National Communication Association, International and Intercultural Communication Division
WRITING INVENTIONS: Identities, Technologies, Pedagogies Scott Lloyd DeWitt • Winner of the 2002 Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award, presented by Clarkson University's Eastman Kodak Center for Excellence in Communication
2001 Award Winners Back to Top
CULTURES OF OPPOSITION: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905 Hadassa Kosak • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
DISCOURSE OF ENCLOSURE, THE: Representing Women in Old English Literature Shari Horner • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
EDUCATION AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY: Finding a Place for Community Participation in Public School Reform A. Belden Fields and Walter Feinberg • 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award
HIGHER GOALS: Women's Ice Hockey and the Politics of Gender Nancy Theberge • Winner of the 2001 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award
PALESTINIAN-ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL, 1948-2000, THE : A Political Study As'ad Ghanem • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
RAWLS AND RELIGION: The Case for Political Liberalism Daniel A. Dombrowski • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
SELFISH GIFTS: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses Lisa McNee • Joel Gregory Prize, presented by the Canadian Association of African Studies
SUBTRACTIVE SCHOOLING: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Angela Valenzuela • 2001 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award
TEACHING SELVES: Identity, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education Jane Danielewicz • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
TERMS OF WORK FOR COMPOSITION: A Materialist Critique Bruce Horner • 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
WHO TRANSLATES?: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason Douglas Robinson • CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Books
WORDS IN THE WILDERNESS: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands Stephen Gilbert Brown • 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award Best book in composition theory presented by JAC and the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
2000 Award Winners Back to Top
AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP Ronald W. Walters and Robert C. Smith • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
BEFORE LOGIC Richard Mason • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
BLACK ATLANTIC POLITICS: Dilemmas of Political Empowerment in Boston and Liverpool William E. Nelson Jr. • Winner of the 2000 Best Book on Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics Presented by the American Political Science Association, Section of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
COMEDY, TRAGEDY, AND RELIGION John Morreall • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
EXPLAINING CONGRESSIONAL-PRESIDENTIAL RELATIONS: A Multiple Perspective Approach Steven A. Shull and Thomas C. Shaw • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
FORCED CHOICES: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership Charles S. Varano • 2000 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Assocation
LITERACY WITH AN ATTITUDE: Educating Working-Class Children in Their Own Self-Interest Patrick J. Finn • 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards - Honorable Mention
ORGANIZING SILENCE: A World of Possibilities Robin Patric Clair • Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Book Award, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division
RELIGION AND SCIENTIFIC NATURALISM: Overcoming the Conflicts David Ray Griffin • 2000 Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize
SUBTRACTIVE SCHOOLING: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring Angela Valenzuela • American Educational Research Association - Outstanding Book Award • 2000 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards - Honorable Mention
THE SOMETIME CONNECTION: Public Opinion and Social Policy Elaine B. Sharp • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF PURE LAND BUDDHISM: Creating a Shin Buddhist Theology in a Religiously Plural World Dennis Hirota, editor • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
WOMEN IN CHAINS: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction Venetria K. Patton • CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Books
1999 Award Winners Back to Top
FRANCE ON DISPLAY Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World’s Fair Shanny Peer • Winner of the 1999 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies presented by the Association for French Cultural Studies
BEYOND THE LAND ETHIC: More Essays in Environmental Philosophy J. Baird Callicott • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
TRANSFORMATIONAL POLITICS: Theory, Study, and Practice Stephen Woolpert, Christa Daryl Slaton, and Edward W. Schwerin, editors • Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics Awarded by the American Political Science Association's Section on Ecological and Transformational Politics 1999
HOME FRONT SOLDIER: The Story of a GI and His Italian American Family During World War II Richard Aquila • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
FEMINISM AND WORLD RELIGIONS Arvind Sharma and Katherine K. Young, editors • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
PASSPORT TO HOLLYWOOD: Hollywood Films, European Directors James Morrison • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
LIVING PICTURES: The Origins of the Movies Deac Rossell • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
NARRATIVE AS COUNTER-MEMORY: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and Japan Reiko Tachibana • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
FORCED CHOICES: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership Charles S. Varano • CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Books
SPEAKING THE UNPLEASANT: The Politics of (non)Engagement in the Multicultural Education Terrain Rudolfo Chávez Chávez and James O'Donnell, editors • 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Honorable Mention
STRUGGLING TO BE HEARD: The Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children Valerie Ooka Pang and Li-Rong Lilly Cheng, editors • 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Honorable Mention
EXPANDING LITERACIES: English Teaching and the New Workplace Mary Sue Garay and Stephen A. Bernhardt, editors • 1999 Best Collection of Essays in Technical and Scientific Communication - National Council of Teachers of English
USER-CENTERED TECHNOLOGY: A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts Robert R. Johnson • 1999 Best Book - National Council of Teachers of English NCTE Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication
1998 Award Winners Back to Top
DESTINED TO RULE THE SCHOOLS: Women and the Superintendency, 1873-1995 Jackie M. Blount • 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles
RACE, CLASS, AND POWER IN SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING Pauline Lipman • 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles
SHAPING THE CULTURE OF SCHOOLING: The Rise of Outcome-Based Education Cheryl Taylor Desmond • 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles
LOST SUBJECTS, CONTESTED OBJECTS: Toward a Psychoanalytic Inquiry of Learning Deborah P. Britzman • 1998 American Educational Studies Association, Critics' Choice Titles
JOHN DEWEY: Rethinking Our Time Raymond D. Boisvert • 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
OUT OF PLACE: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes Talmadge Wright • 1998 Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association
CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS: Problems and Possibilities for Democratic Education Ronald E. Butchart and Barbara McEwan, editors • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
PLACING THE POET: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and Postcolonial Iraq Terri DeYoung • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
THE ENDLESS TEXT: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance Edward Dudley • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
LAO-TZU AND THE TAO-TE-CHING Livia Kohn and Michael LaFargue, editors • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
TO RELIEVE THE HUMAN CONDITION: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body Gerald P. McKenny • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF WORLD PHILOSOPHY: From the Upanishads to Kant Ben-Ami Scharfstein • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF ANARCHY: A Disciplinary History of International Relations Brian C. Schmidt • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GRADING WRITING: Problems and Possibilities Frances Zak and Christopher C. Weaver, editors • CHOICE 1998 Outstanding Academic Books
1997 Award Winners Back to Top
THE POLITICS OF EXPERTISE IN CONGRESS: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment Bruce Bimber • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
POWER PLAYS: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of the Tennessee Valley Authority Richard A. Colignon • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
ISRAEL THROUGH THE JEWISH-AMERICAN IMAGINATION: A Survey of Jewish-American Literature on Israel, 1928-1995 Andrew Furman • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
VOICING THE VOID: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction Sara R. Horowitz • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
WEAVING OURSELVES INTO THE LAND: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians," and the Study of Native American Religions Thomas C. Parkhill • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
LACAN AND LITERATURE: Purloined Pretexts Ben Stoltzfus • 1997 Gradiva Award for Best Book (Cultural Arts Related) awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP)
THE FOLK PERFORMING ARTS: Traditional Culture in Contemporary Japan Barbara E. Thornbury • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
PARACELSUS: Speculative Theory and the Crisis of the Early Reformation Andrew Weeks • CHOICE 1997 Outstanding Academic Books
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