2022 Foerster Prize Winner Announced

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Norman Foerster Prize, awarded to the best essay of the year in American Literature: “Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler” by Ana Schwartz, published in volume 94, issue 4. Read the essay, freely available through the end of May, here.

The prize committee offered this praise for the winning essay: “Ana Schwartz’s superb essay, ‘Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler’ articulates a strikingly original and generative method of literary analysis that she names imperative reading. In a nuanced and careful reading of the correspondence between Samson Occom and his sister-in-law, Sister Fowler, Schwartz explores key debates at stake in the field of literary criticism today, including those concerning postcritical and affective reading, historicism, and archival studies. Her essay is distinguished by its elegant and nimble prose and thoughtful engagements with both the texts at hand and the larger fields of Indigenous studies, early American studies, and literary studies. Schwartz’s concept of imperative reading—the ‘experience of reading within a dense network of obligations’—is rooted in and extends theorizations of refusal in contemporary Indigenous and decolonial studies in compelling terms.”

The honorable mention for this year’s Foerster Prize was “The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher” by Douglas S. Ishii (vol. 94, no. 4). The committee had this to say about the honorable mention: “Douglas Ishii’s impressive essay, ‘The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher’ takes on both the practice of literary analysis and the nature of that work in the academy today. Ishii’s focus on crucial issues that inform the work of literary scholars today—the precarity of employment and the vicissitudes of institutional ‘DEI’ practices—is particularly astute and insightful. He moves deftly between an analysis of Asian American campus novels and the place of contingent Asian American faculty (including, at one time, himself) charged with teaching courses that fulfill diversity requirements. The essay is a tour-de-force in analyzing the institutions that shape our work and the work we do within the neoliberal academy today.”

Congratulations to Ana Schwartz and Douglas S. Ishii!

Fall Awards

We would like to celebrate our many authors who have earned various awards and honors for their books since July 2022. Congratulations to all of them!

Cajetan Iheka’s African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics won the African Studies Association Book Prize (Herskovits Prize) from the African Studies Association, the ASLE Awards in Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, and the Harold & Margaret Sprout Award from the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association. African Ecomedia also received an Honorable Mention for the ASAP Book Prize from The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and was selected as a finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize from the African Studies Association.

Joshua Grace’s African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development was also selected as a finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize from the African Studies Association. 

Vanessa Díaz’s Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood won the ALLA Book Award from the Association for Latina and Latino Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association.

Brigitte Fielder’s Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America won the Bela Kornitzer Award for Nonfiction. 

Hagar Kotef’s The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine won the C. B. Macpherson Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association. 

Noah Tamarkin’s Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa won the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards from the Association for Jewish Studies. Genetic Afterlives also received an Honorable Mention for the Diana Forsythe Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Work Section of the American Anthropological Association and Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. 

Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World was selected as a finalist for the Robert L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award from Textile Society of America. 

Jennifer L. Morgan’s Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic was named co-winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center. 

Kregg Hetherington’s The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops won the Rachel Carson Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Eva Haifa Giraud’s What Comes after Entanglement?: Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion was selected as a finalist and Max Liboiron’s Pollution Is Colonialism received an Honorable Mention for the same award. 

Micha Cárdenas’s Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media and Rana M. Jaleel’s The Work of Rape were named co-winners for the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Jennifer C. Nash’s Birthing Black Mothers received an Honorable Mention for the same award.

Celeste Day Moore’s Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France won the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Soundscapes of Liberation was also selected as a finalist for the American Library in Paris Award. 

Christina Schwenkel’s Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam won the E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association. 

Jessica A. Schwartz’s Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences was named co-winner for the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association.. 

Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, and Kaley Mason’s Sound Alignments: Popular Music in Asia’s Cold Wars won the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize for the Society for Ethnomusicology. 

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo’s The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico won the Frank Bonilla Book Award from the Puerto Rican Studies Association. 

Vanessa Freije’s Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico received an Honorable Mention for LASA Mexico Best Book in the Social Sciences Prize from the Latin American Studies Association Mexico Social Sciences Section.

Elizabeth McHenry’s To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship won the SHARP DeLong Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. To Make Negro Literature also received an Honorable Mention for the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association. 

Farzaneh Hemmasi’s Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music won the Hamid Naficy Book Award from the Association for Iranian Studies.

Joseph Pugliese’s Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence was selected as a finalist for the IHR/ ASU Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award  from the Institute for Humanities Research/ Arizona State University. 

Hatim El-Hibri’s Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure won The Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award from the Urban Communication Foundation/ National Communication Association. 

Kevin Quashie’s Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association. Black Aliveness also won the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation.

Rachel Zolf’s No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics was selected as a finalist for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the Poetry Foundation. 

Valerie Cassel Oliver’s exhibition catalog The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse won the Mary Ellen LoPresti Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America Southeast Chapter.

Amy Holdsworth’s On Living with Television won MeCCSA Monograph of the Year from the media, communication and cultural studies association.  

La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity won the MLA Prize for a First Book from the Modern Language Association. Laurence Coderre’s Newborn Socialist Things: Materiality in Maoist China received an Honorable Mention for the same award. 

Juan Herrera’s Cartographic Memory: Social Movement Activism and the Production of Space won the National Association for Ethnic Studies Outstanding Book Award from the National Association for Ethnic Studies. 

Eric Weisbard’s Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music was named co-winner for the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award from Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, New York University’s Clive Davis Institute, and The Pop Conference.  

Jill Jarvis’s Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony won the Scaglione Prize for French & Francophone Studies from the Modern Language Association. 

Todd Meyers’s All That Was Not Her was selected as a finalist for the Victor Turner Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology/ American Anthropological Association. Melinda Hinkson’s See How We Roll: Enduring Exile between Desert and Urban Australia received an Honorable Mention for the same award.

Spring Awards

We would like to celebrate our many authors who have earned various awards and honors for their books since January 2022. Congratulations to all of them!

Jennifer L. Morgan’s Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic won the Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize in US Women’s and/or Gender History from the Organization of American Historians.

Naminata Diabate’s Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa and Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War were named co-winners of the African Literature Association First Book Award.

Bret Gustafson’s Bolivia in the Age of Gas won the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association.

Amalia Leguizamón’s Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina won the Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award from the Environment & Technology Section and the American Sociological Association. Seeds of Power also won the Global Development Studies Book Award from the International Studies Association.

Celeste Day Moore’s Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France won the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies.

Nicole Charles’s Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados was named co-winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association.

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu’s Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam received the R.R. Hawkins award from the Association of American Publishers, as well as the PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities in the World History category.

Anthony B. Pinn’s Interplay of Things: Religion, Art, and Presence Together was received a Gold Medal in the religion category of the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Max Liboiron’s Pollution Is Colonialism won the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award from the Labriola Center.

Eric Zolov’s The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties won the María Elena Martínez Book Prize in Mexican History from the Conference on Latin American History.

Gil Z. Hochberg’s Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future won the René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.

Joanne Rappaport’s Cowards Don’t Make History: Orlando Fals Borda and the Origins of Participatory Action Research won the Michael Jiménez Award from the Latin American Studies Association Colombia Section.

Eric Weisbard’s Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music was been named co-winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, New York University’s Clive Davis Institute and The Pop Conference.

Elizabeth McHenry’s To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship won the DeLong Book History Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

2022 Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award Winner Announced

We’re pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Award, given by the Research Centre for Translation to original research in Chinese Translation Studies: “Chinese Folklore for the English Public: Herbert A. Giles’s 1880 Translation of Pu Songling’s Classical Tales” by Shengyu Wang, published in Comparative Literature volume 73, issue 4. Read the essay, freely available for three months, here.

“Stephen C. Soong (1919–1996) was a prolific writer and translator, as well as an active figure in the promotion of translation education and research,” writes the RCT on their website. “To commemorate his contributions in this field, the Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Awards were set up in 1997 by RCT, with a generous donation from the Soong family. It gives recognition to academics who have made contributions to original research in Chinese Translation Studies, particularly in the use of first-hand sources for historical and cultural investigations.”

Congratulations to Shengyu Wang!

Congratulations to our Award-Winning Designers

Congratulations to our designers whose book and cover designs have been honored by the Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.

In the Scholarly Typographic category, the committee honored Aimee C. Harrison for her design of Cajetan Iheka’s African Ecomedia, Matthew Tauch for his design of Black Bodies, White Gold by Anna Arabindan Kesson, and Courtney Leigh Richardson for her design of Nervous Systems, edited by Johanna Gosse and Timothy Stott.

In the Trade Typographic category, Aimee C. Harrison’s design of Magical Habits by Monica Huerta was honored by the committee.

In the Poetry and Literature category, Courtney Leigh Richardson was honored for her design of Maroon Choreography by fahima ife.

The annual Book, Jacket, and Journal show, now in its 57^th year, honors the university publishing community’s design and production professionals. The Association recognizes achievement in design, production, and manufacture of books, jackets, covers, and journals, and the Show serves as a spark to conversations and source of ideas about intelligent, creative, and resourceful publishing. Congratulations again to Aimee, Courtney, and Matthew!

Fall Awards

We’d like to celebrate our many authors who have earned various awards and honors for their books since July 2021. Congratulations to all of them!

Naminata Diabate’s Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa has won the African Studies Association Book Prize, also known as the Herskovits Prize.

Vanessa Freije’s Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico has won the Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize from the American Historical Association.

Shana L. Redmond’s Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson has won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

Kregg Hetherington’s The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops has won the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize.

Maureen Mahon’s Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll has won the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society. It has also received Honorable Mention for the Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.

Several of our books have been named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles from the American Library Association. These honorees are Charles R. Acland’s American Blockbuster: Movies, Technology, and Wonder, Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War, Allesandro Russo’s Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Abigail A. Dumes’s Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine, Samantha Pinto’s Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights, Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves’s Killer Apps: War, Media, Machine, Andrew Bickford’s Chemical Heroes: Pharmacological Supersoldiers in the US Military, and Emily J. Lordi’s The Meaning of Soul: Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s.

Max Liboiron’s Pollution Is Colonialism has won the Clay Morgan Award for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory from the Western Political Science Association.

Cressida J. Heyes’s Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge has won the David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Association.

Harry Harootunian’s The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives has won the Der Mugrdechian Armenian Studies Book Award from the Society for Armenian Studies.

Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm has won the Diana Forsythe Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Work Section of the American Anthropological Association and Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing. Porkopolis also received Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association.

Saiba Varma’s The Occupied Clinic: Militarism and Care in Kashmir has won the Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology section of AAA.

We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States, edited by Leisy J. Abrego and Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, has been named co-winner of the International Latino Book Awards from the Latino Book & Family Festivals.

Kimberly Chong’s Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China has won the European Group for Organizational Studies Book Award.

Race and Performance after Repetition, edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones Jr., and Shane Vogel, has won the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.

Christina Schwenkel’s Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam has won the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) Book Prize.

Hagar Kotef’s The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine has been named co-winner of the Yale H. Ferguson Award from the International Studies Association. It has also received Honorable Mention for the International Political Sociology (IPS) Book Award from the IPS Section of the International Studies Association.

Arturo Escobar’s Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds has been named co-winner of On the Brinck Book Award from the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning.

Laura Doyle’s Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance has won the Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Book Award from the PEWS Section of the American Sociological Association.

Savannah Shange’s Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco has been named co-winner of the Sharon Stephens First Book Prize from the American Ethnological Society.

Brandi Clay Brimmer’s Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South has received Honorable Mention for the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians.

Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume II: A Novel has received Honorable Mention for the Lois Roth Award from the Modern Language Association. The novel was translated by Joel Scott.

Monica Popescu’s At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War has received Honorable Mention for the Scaglione Prize in Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association.

Christopher Tounsel’s Chosen Peoples was named a finalist for the Christianity Today Book Award in History Biography.

You can purchase any of the above award-winning titles at a 30% discount on our website using coupon SAVE30. Congratulations again to our authors!

Best Books of 2021

We’re always pleased to see our books land on various best of the year lists. Check out some of the great titles that were featured in 2021’s lists.

Pitchfork named Joshua Clover’s Roadrunner to their Best Music Books of 2021 list, calling it “as ecstatic as the music it celebrates.” 

On the International Center of Photography blog, Vince Aletti included A Time of Youth by William Gedney in his list of the top ten photobooks of the year, writing that Gedney’s “queer eye never misses the shaggy-haired beauties and the tender, erotic undercurrent here is Gedney’s signature.” 

The New York Times’s Holland Cotter put the Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s The Dirty South on his list of the best art exhibitions of the year, and the catalog, which we distribute, on his list of the best art books of the year. He says, “The book vividly illustrates and deepens the show’s powerful argument.” Cotter also named Lorraine O’Grady’s Brooklyn Museum retrospective, Both/And as one of the year’s best exhibitions, and said her 2020 book Writing in Space, 1973-2019 was “a vital supplement to the show.” You can catch The Dirty South at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through February 6 and Both/And at Greensboro’s Weatherspoon Art Museum from January 4-April 30, 2022.

Writing in Bookforum’s Best Books of 2021 feature, Elias Rodriques said The Long Emancipation by Rinaldo Walcott “gave [him] new tools to think with in Black studies.”

Smithsonian Magazine asked contributors to name their best books of 2021 and Joshua Bell, curator of globalization recommended Max Liboiron’s Pollution Is Colonialism, calling it “a beautifully written text that is both a handbook on method and a call to rethink how we live our lives on occupied land.”

Entropy put Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub: Finding Ceremony on its list of 2020 and 2021’s best poetry books. And Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, told The Art Newspaper that her trilogy, including Spill, M Archive, and Dub, was his best read of the year. He said, “This trilogy, as well as Gumbs’s most recent work, Undrowned, offers fascinating insights into new forms of togetherness—among ourselves and our environment.”

Christianity Today selected Chosen Peoples by Christopher Tounsel as a finalist for its best History and Biography book of the year.

On the Verso books blog, Mark Neocleous selected Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony as his best book of the year, saying it was “a nuanced rethinking of Foucault’s relation to Marx and Marxism.”

Writing in The Millions about the best books she read this year, Arianna Rebolini said Magical Habits by Monica Huerta was “much-needed reminder that there are countless ways to tell a story, and that a book can be whatever you want it to be.”

If you haven’t already, we hope you will seek out some of these highly recommended books!

Scholars of Color First Book Award

We are excited to congratulate the first cohort of books receiving the new Scholars of Color First Book Award. The award supports innovative and important books authored by scholars of color, as indicated through the review process. This fund supports and exemplifies our commitment to publish works by rising stars and to celebrate books with exceptional promise by scholars of color who might otherwise not receive recognition and support from their institutions. On average, we publish 36 first books each year, many of which are written by scholars of color, and we select several per season for the award.

Duke University Press Director Dean Smith says, “The Scholars of Color First Book Award enables us to support innovative and emergent voices at the beginning of their careers and create open spaces for experimentation and risk-taking—and it further reinforces our commitment to the centering of marginalized perspectives from scholars at every stage in their careers.”

The Scholars of Color First Book award is made possible by Duke University Press authors who donate their book royalties to help support innovative work by junior scholars of color. Many reviewers have also donated their honoraria. As part of this award, the Press covers the costs of indexing. 

Editorial Director Gisela Fosado says, “Every first book we publish is usually tied to a happy tenure story.  Supporting first books by scholars of color is therefore essential to fundamental changes we need in higher education. It’s been heartening to see the wave of support for this initiative both by folks who have donated to the fund and also by the award recipients and our many dedicated book readers.” 

Like most scholarly book publishers, our books program is not self-supporting. You can now donate to the award, as well as to other Press funds, on our website.

Check out the inaugural award winners below. A few of them are out now and the rest will be published over the next few months.

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• Nicole Charles, Suspicion (December 2021)
• Sophie Chao, In the Shadow of the Palms (May 2022)
• Andil Gosine, Nature’s Wild (September 2021)
• Monica Huerta, Magical Habits (out now)
• fahima ife, Maroon Choreography (out now)
• Rana Jaleel, The Work of Rape (September 2021)
• Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, The Lettered Barriada (November 2021)
• Kelli Moore, Legal Spectatorship (June 2022)
• Mercy Romero, Toward Camden (October 2021)
• Fa’anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa, Fabled Futures (June 2022)
• Sarah E. Vaughn, Engineering Vulnerability (April 2022)
• Xine Yao, Disaffected (October 2021)

SPRING AWARDS

We’d like to celebrate our many authors who have earned various awards and honors for their books since January 2021. Congratulations to all of them.

Ashon T. Crawley’s book The Lonely Letters has won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction and a Believer Magazine Book Award.

David L. Eng and Shinhee Han’s book Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation has won the Boyer Prize for Contributions to Psychoanalytic Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology SPA (AAA section).

Cait McKinney’s book Information Activism has won the Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize from the Canadian Communication Association.

Deborah A. Thomas’s book Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation has won the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association.

Matt Brim’s book Poor Queer Studies has won the Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award from the Working Class Studies Association.

At the Limits of the Cure by Bharat Jayram Venkat won the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Johana Londoño’s book Abstract Barrios has won the LASA Latina/o Studies Section Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, Latino/a Studies Section.

Lamonte Aidoo’s book Slavery Unseen has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

Shawn Michelle Smith’s book Photographic Returns has won the Ray and Pat Brown Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular American Culture from the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association.

Cara New Daggett’s book The Birth of Energy has won the Yale H. Ferguson Award from the International Studies Association.

Kamari Maxine Clarke’s book Affective Justice has won the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology from the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Bonnie Ruberg’s The Queer Games Avant-Garde has won a Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award from the Social Responsibility Roundtable of the American Literary Association.

Where Histories Reside, by Priya Jaikumar, has won the Monograph Award from the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies.

Thea Riofrancos’s book Resource Radicals has won the Charles Taylor Book Award from the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the American Political Science Association. Theft is Property! by Robert Nichols received Honorable Mention for the same award.

Michael J. Shapiro’s book Punctuations has won the Pamela Grande Jensen Award from the Politics, Literature, and Film Section of the American Political Science Association.

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky’s book The Process Genre has won the Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema & Media Studies.

Melody Jue’s book Wild Blue Media has won the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Award from the Science Fiction Research Association.

Kandice Chuh’s book The Difference Aesthetics Makes has won the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Jian Neo Chen’s book Trans Exploits has won the Social Sciences Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Aesthetics of Excess by Jillian Hernandez received Honorable Mention from the Popular Culture Association for the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies.

You can purchase any of the above award-winning titles at a 30% discount on our website using coupon SAVE30. Congratulations again to our authors!

Congratulations to our 2020 CELJ award winners!

Congratulations to Zong-qi Cai, who won the Distinguished Editor Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) this year, and to Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, which won Best Digital Feature! The CELJ announced the awards this past Saturday at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention.

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Zong-qi Cai was named Distinguished Editor for his work on the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture and Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, both published by Duke University Press, as well as the Lingnan Journal of Chinese Studies.

“The global impact of Cai’s editorial work is signaled by his efforts to bridge the work of North American and Chinese sinologists. For example, he has consistently promoted and published English translations of key essays by Chinese scholars. Moreover, Cai is committed to publishing interdisciplinary work by early career and senior scholars that brings new theoretical perspectives to Chinese literature and culture. … In sum, Cai’s simultaneous work on three journals shows a deep commitment to editing,” the CELJ wrote.

Meridians was co-winner of the inaugural Best Digital Feature award for its “On the Line” component. The CELJ wrote, “The range of multimedia offered on the website—which complements the print journal—was commended for the ways in which it uses digital technology to give women of color a voice. ‘On the Line’ was cited as a particularly effective example of a print journal using digital features to complement journal content and grow audience engagement. The feature’s collaborative and interdisciplinary spirit was praised by judges, as was its commitment to reaching new readers with urgently pressing content.”

Congratulations to all of this year’s winners! Learn more about the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, Prism, and Meridians.