Award-Winning Titles

The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece
David M. Schaps

Winner of the 2010 Arie Kindler prize, awarded by the Israel Numismatic Society, Tel-Aviv Branch

Being in Pictures
An Intimate Photo Memoir

Joanne Leonard

Co-Winner: 2009 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Great Lakes for Sale
From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps

Dave Dempsey

2009 Michigan Author Award

Ruin and Recovery
Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader

Dave Dempsey

2009 Michigan Author Award

Selected for the 2002 Read Michigan List by the State of Michigan

You Work Tomorrow
An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

John Marsh, Editor

Winner: Constance Coiner Book Award from the Working-Class Studies Association

Delightfulee
The Life and Music of Lee Morgan

Jeffery S. McMillan

Named the 2008 Best Book in the Industry in Jazz Times Readers' Poll

Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Jackie Ormes
The First African American Woman Cartoonist

Nancy Goldstein

Named a Booklist Top 10 Art Book of 2008

Named a Best Book of 2008 by the Village Voice

Named an American Library Association Booklist Top 10 Biography of the Year

Looking for Hickories
The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

Tom Springer

Named a 2009 Michigan Notable Book

The Toledo War
The First Michigan-Ohio Rivalry

Don Faber

Historical Society of Michigan's 2009 State History Award Winner

Named a 2009 Michigan Notable Book

Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
Carol Poore

Winner: German Studies Association's prize for Best Book of 2007

Winner: Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the Modern Language Association

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

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

Keewaydinoquay, Stories from My Youth
Keewaydinoquay Peschel

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

Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources
Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, and James Walker

Dr. Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics

Disability Theory
Tobin Siebers

Co-Winner: 2009 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Racial Union
Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954

Julie Novkov

Co-winner of the American Political Science Association's 2009 Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science

William G. Milliken
Michigan's Passionate Moderate

Dave Dempsey

2009 Michigan Author Award

Named a 2007 Michigan Notable Book

Act Like a Man
Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

Robert Vorlicky

Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Don't Deny My Name
Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition

Lorenzo Thomas

Winner: 2008 American Book Award given by the Before Columbus Foundation

"Jiffy": A Family Tradition, Mixing Business and Old-Fashioned Values
Cynthia Furlong Reynolds

Named a 2009 Michigan Notable Book

Ninety Years Crossing Lake Michigan
The History of the Ann Arbor Car Ferries

Grant Brown, Jr.

Named a 2009 Michigan Notable Book

Winner: Historical Society of Michigan State History Award 2008

Where Do the Children Play?
A Documentary Film

Michigan Television

Winner of the 2008 Eugene International Film Festival Best Film in Social Issues/Family Values

Lennie Tristano
His Life in Music

Eunmi Shim

Winner: Bronze Prize for the Independent Publisher Book Award for Performing Arts

Winner: 2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Queering Mestizaje
Transculturation and Performance

Alicia Arrizón

Winner of the Outstanding Book Award for 2008 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

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

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 for the best book in English on any period before 1000 A.D.

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