Award-Winning Titles

Selected Prose Works
C. P. Cavafy

Winner of the 2011 State Literary Translation Award from the Greek Ministry of Culture

I Don't Sound Like Nobody
Remaking Music in 1950s America

Albin J. Zak III

Association for Recorded Sound Collections 2011 Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock or Popular Music Certificate of Merit

American Musicological Society Music in American Culture Award 2011

Disability Aesthetics
Tobin Siebers

Winner of the 2011 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Embodying Black Experience
Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

Harvey Young

Winner of the National Communication Association's Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, 2011

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers
Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

Kate Davy

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Book Award 2011, Honorable Mention

The Americanist
Daniel Aaron

Daniel Aaron was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal

Blues in Black and White
The Landmark Ann Arbor Blues Festivals

As photographed by Stanley Livingston with Text and a History of the Ann Arbor Blues Festival by Michael Erlewine

Named a 2011 Michigan Notable Book

Unauthorized Voices
Essays on Poets and Poetry, 1987-2009

Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the winner of the 2010 Voelcker Award for Poetry, offered biennially by PEN

Good for the Jews
Debra Spark

Named a finalist 2009 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award in the general fiction category

2009 Michigan Literary Fiction Award

Isadore's Secret
Sin, Murder, and Confession in a Northern Michigan

Mardi Link

Named a 2010 Michigan Notable Book

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

Elly Peterson
"Mother" of the Moderates

Sara Fitzgerald

Michigan Notable Book Award 2012

Highbrow/Lowdown
Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class

David Savran

Winner: 2011 Kurt Weill Article Prize

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

Winner: Joe A. Callaway Award for Best Book in Theater and Drama

Lost Eagles
One Man's Mission to Find Missing Airmen in Two World Wars

Blaine Pardoe

Historical Society of Michigan 2011 State History Award

No Safe Spaces
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater

Angela C. Pao

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award 2011

Whispers of the Ancients
Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time

Tamarack Song and Moses (Amik) Beaver

Winner of three Midwest Independent Publishers Awards in the categories of Coffee Table Books, Social Studies, and Illustration

Nautilus Book Awards 2011 Gold Winner in the Multicultural/Indigenous category

Skate Life
Re-Imagining White Masculinity

Emily Chivers Yochim

Winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award in Feminist/Women Studies in Communication, National Communication Association 2010

Neither German nor Pole
Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland

James E. Bjork

Winner: 2010 Kulczycki Prize in Polish Studies

The Playing Fields of Eton
Equality and Excellence in Modern Meritocracy

Mika LaVaque-Manty

Winner of the 2010 University of Michigan Press Book Award

Bath Massacre
America's First School Bombing

Arnie Bernstein

Named a 2010 Michigan Notable Book

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