Award-Winning Titles

The Goat Bridge
A Novel

T. M. McNally

Winner of The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Gold Medal

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist

Chic Ironic Bitterness
R. Jay Magill, Jr.

Notable Award winner of the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award (culture category)

Mirage
Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.

Cynthia Barnett

Winner: 2007 Florida Gold Medal for Nonfiction

Anti-Arab Racism in the USA
Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics Today

Steven Salaita

Winner: 2007 Myers Outstanding Book Awards

A Fly in the Soup
Memoirs

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

The Metaphysician in the Dark
Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

The Uncertain Certainty
Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

Wonderful Words, Silent Truth
Essays on Poetry and a Memoir

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

Rhythm Is Our Business
Jimmie Lunceford and the Harlem Express

Eddy Determeyer

Winner of the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music, Best History

Head Hunters
The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album

Steven F. Pond

Winner of the IASPM-US 2006 Woody Guthrie Award

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
Keewaydinoquay Peschel

Named a 2007 Michigan Notable Book

Acting Jewish
Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen

Henry Bial

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The New Imperial Presidency
Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate

Andrew Rudalevige

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The "Vanity of the Philosopher"
From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics

Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Black Cultural Traffic
Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Kennell Jackson

Harry J. Elam, Jr. was awarded the American Society of Theatre Research's (ASTR) Distinguished Scholar Prize

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism
Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

Mike Sell

Honorable Mention: 2004-05 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Drama and Theatre

A Crooked Line
From Cultural History to the History of Society

Geoff Eley

Winner: University of Michigan's 2006 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Publishing The Prince
History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

Jacob Soll

Winner of the 2005 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History from the American Philosophical Society

Jews and Gentiles in Early America
1654-1800

William Pencak

Runner-up: Jewish Book Council's 2005 National Jewish Book Award in the American Jewish History category

The Changing Face of Economics
Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists

David Colander, Richard P. F. Holt, and J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Putting Faith in Partnerships
Welfare-to-Work in Four Cities

Stephen V. Monsma

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Grit, Noise, and Revolution
The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll

David A. Carson

Named a 2006 Michigan Notable Book
Winner of the 2006 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Recorded Rock Music

Soapy
A Biography of G. Mennen Williams

Thomas J. Noer

Named a 2006 Michigan Notable Book

Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Turkana Ecology, Politics, and Raiding in a Disequilibrium System

J. Terrence McCabe

Winner: 2005 The Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association's 2005 Julian Steward Award

State of Virginity
Gender, Religion, and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State

Ulrike Strasser

Winner: The Society of Early Modern Women for best book relating to early modern women published in 2004; Finalist for The Historical Book 2004 in Early Modern History

Playing Underground
A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off-Broadway Movement

Stephen J. Bottoms

Honorable Mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Waltzing the Magpies
A Year in Australia

Sam Pickering

Finalist: 2005 Connecticut Book Award for best memoir

The Footsteps of Israel
Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England

Andrew P. Scheil

Winner: ISAS Best First Book Award

Queering Mestizaje
Transculturation and Performance

Alicia Arrizón

Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2007 from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

Co-winner of the 2007 Modern Language Association Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies

Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln
Tasha S. Philpot

Winner: 2008 W. E. B. DuBois Outstanding Book Award given by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

Sarajevo
A Biography

Robert J. Donia

Winner of the Association of Publishers and Booksellers of Bosnia-Herzegovina "Best Publishers' Achievement" of the year

Waiting for the Call
From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom

Jacqueline Taylor

Winner: National Communication Association 2007 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

Memory Piano
Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

Orphan Factory
Essays and Memoirs

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

The Unemployed Fortune-Teller
Essays and Memoirs

Charles Simic

Named 2007 U.S. Poet Laureate

How the Incas Built Their Heartland
State Formation and the Innovation of Imperial Strategies in the Sacred Valley, Peru

R. Alan Covey

Winner of the 2006 Godbey Lecture Series Author's Award at Southern Methodist University

Someone to Watch Over Me
The Life and Music of Ben Webster

Frank Büchmann-Møller

Winner of the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Certificate of Merit for Best Research in Recorded Jazz Music

Ed Bullins
Twelve Plays and Selected Writings

Ed Bullins

Ed Bullins was awarded the Flora Roberts Award from the Dramatists Guild

William G. Milliken
Michigan's Passionate Moderate

Dave Dempsey

Named a 2007 Michigan Notable Book

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages
Florin Curta, Editor

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Player's Passion
Studies in the Science of Acting

Joseph R. Roach

Winner of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre History from the American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR)

Architexts of Memory
Literature, Science, and Autobiography

Evelyne Ender

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Taking It to the Streets
The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka

Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Harry J. Elam, Jr. was awarded the American Society of Theatre Research's (ASTR) Distinguished Scholar Prize

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism
Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

Mike Sell

Honorable Mention: 2004-05 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Drama and Theatre

The Aesthetics of Survival
A Composer's View of Twentieth-Century Music

George Rochberg

Winner: 2006 The American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Award

Bodies in Commotion
Disability and Performance

Edited by Carrie Sandahl and Philip Auslander

Winner: 2006 Best Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

An Alliance Against Babylon
The US, Israel and Iraq

John K. Cooley

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Liberating Economics
Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

Drucilla K. Barker and Susan F. Feiner

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Laws of the Roman People
Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic

Callie Williamson

Winner: 2005 James Henry Breasted Prize given by the American Historical Association

How Like an Angel
A Novel

Jack Driscoll

Named a 2006 Michigan Notable Book

Vintage Views of the Charlevoix-Petoskey Region
M. Christine Byron and Thomas R. Wilson

Named a 2006 Michigan Notable Book

Mixed Media
Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics

Simone Murray

Winner: 2005 De Long book prize given by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
Harry J. Elam, Jr.

Winner: 2005 Errol Hill Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)

Harry J. Elam, Jr. was awarded the American Society of Theatre Research's Distinguished Scholar Prize

Solidarity's Secret
The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

Shana Penn

Winner: 2005 Heldt Book Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies given by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting

Ross Chambers

Winner: University of Michigan's 2005 University of Michigan Press Book Award