Recent Awards
2009 Awards
European History section of the Southern Historical Association, Charles E. Smith Award: Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France, by Rachel Fuchs
Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Landscapes and Artifacts, Fred Kniffen Book Award: Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia, by Ann Smart Martin
Michigan Library, 2009 Michigan Notable Book: The Model T: A Centennial History, by Robert Casey
Choice Magazine's selection of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008 included these books published by the JHU Press:
The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry in Early Modern England, by Heather Dubrow
Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutional regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970-2000, by Francisco E. Gonzalez
Addiction Treatment: Science and Policy for the Twenty-First Century, by Jack E. Hennginfield, Patricia B. Santora, and Warren K. Bickel
Motorized Obsessions: Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine, by Paul R. Josephson
Robots in Space: Technology, Evolution, and Interplanetary Travel, by Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy
Owls of the United States and Canada: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Behavior, by Wayne Lynch
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy, by Paola Marrati
The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology, Carroll Pursell
The Waning of the Mediterranean, 1550-1870: A Geohistoric Approach, by Faruk Tabak
2008 AAP/PSP PROSE Awards - American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence
JHU Press received several top awards in the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing PROSE awards program for 2008, including one of only five "awards for excellence" along with several subject category awards.
PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works:
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen, selected and translated by Norman R. Shapiro
Subject Category PROSE Awards:
U.S. History & Biography:
Abraham Lincoln: A Life, by Michael BurlingameLiterature, Language & Linguistics:
Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, by Virginia CoxSingle Volume Reference in the Humanities and Social Sciences:
French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen, selected and translated by Norman R. ShapiroFinalist/Honorable Mention in Psychology:
Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process, edited by Richard M. Berlin, M.D.
2008 Awards
American Educational Research Association, 2008 Division J Outstanding Publication: Envisioning Black Colleges, by Marybeth Gasman
American Library Association, 2008 Notable Book: In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus, poems by X. J. Kennedy
American Political Science Association, Richard E. Neustadt Award, co-winner: Managing the President's Message, by Martha Joynt Kumar
American Society for Church History, Frank S. And Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize: Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900, by Heather Curtis.
ASID Foundation, Inc., Joel Polsky Prize: Designing a Better Day, Guidelines for Adult and Dementia Day Services Centers, by Keith Diaz Moore, Lyn Dally Geboy, and Gerald D. Weisman
Bookbinders' Guild of New York, New York Book Show, second place: Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, by Leslie Day, illustrated by Mark A. Klingler, foreword by Michael R. Bloomberg, book and jacket design by Kimberly Glyder
Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Bonnie and Vern L Bullough Book Award: The Science of Orgasm, by Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, and Beverly Whipple
Medieval Institute, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize: John Hawkwood, by William Caferro
North American Society for Oceanic History, 2007 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Maritime History, co-winner: Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmarva Coast, 1632-2004, by Donald G. Shomette
Society of Architectural Historians, Alice David Hitchcock Award: The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, by Michael Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon
The Hudson Institute, Delba Winthrop Mansfield Award for Excellence in Political Science: Plato and the Virtue of Courage, by Linda Rabieh
Washington Book Publishers, 2008 Book Design and Effectiveness Awards, first place: Poets on Prozac, by Richard Berlin, book and jacket design by Ellen McKie
Washington Book Publishers, 2008 Book Design and Effectiveness Awards, second place: Shipwrecks, Sea Raiders, and Maritime Disasters along the Delmava Coast, 1632-2004, by Donald Shomette, book and jacket design by Omega Clay
Washington Book Publishers, 2008 Book Design and Effectiveness Awards, second place: The State of Disunion, by Nicole Mellow, book and jacket design by Henk van Assen
2007 AAP/PSP Awards for Excellence: JHU Press received several top awards in the annual Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence, including one of the five "best of" book awards that are new to the competition this year. In the Humanities category, the Press received the top award in World History for The Treasure of the San Jose: Death at Sea in the War of the Spanish Succession, by Carla Rahn Phillips. In the Social Sciences category, the Press received the top award in Government and Politics for Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order, by Walter F. Murphy. Prof. Murphy's book was also selected as the "Best of the Social Sciences" for 2007. The Association of American Publishers is the national trade association of the U.S. book publishing industry, with more that 300 members including major commercial publishers, university presses, non-profit publishers, and scholarly societies.
Choice Magazine's selection of Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 included these distinguished books published by the JHU Press:
Same Time, Same Station, by James L. Baughman
Turtles of the World, by Franck Bonin, Bernard Devaux, and Alain Dupré, translated by Peter C. H. Pritchard
Journalists under Fire, by Anthony Feinstein
Dragonfly Genera of the New World, by Rosser W. Garrison, Natalia von Ellenrieder, and Jerry A. Louton
Feeling Like a Kid, by Jerome Griswold
When Illness Goes Public, by Barron H. Lerner
Democracy and Elections in Africa, by Staffan I. Lindberg
Breeding Bin Ladens, by Zachary Shore
