Category: Awards

June 8, 2016

Columbia University Press wins big at the New York Book Show

The winners for the New York Book Show (an annual design competition hosted by the Book Industry Guild of New York) were announced last week. We’re proud to share that Columbia University Press won in eight categories this year!

December 11, 2015

Mary Helen Washington Receives Honorable Mention for MLA Award

Congratulations to Mary Helen Washington, whose book “The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s,” received an honorable mention for the competition for the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature.

September 22, 2015

Announcing the Winner of the First Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award

Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost of Columbia University, is pleased to announce that Wael B. Hallaq is the winner of the first annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for his book “The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament.”

April 9, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Our 2015 Best Translated Book Award Nominees!

Congratulations to four distributed press titles that made the longlists for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction or Poetry!

February 12, 2015

AAUP Design Award Winners!

Congratulations to all our great and talented designers for being recognized by the Association of American University Presses!

February 9, 2015

Prose Award Winners!

From Stiglitz and Flying Dinosaurs, to Iris Barry and Roberto Bolano, several Columbia University Press books received recognition at the PROSE awards.

February 3, 2015

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles!

Check out the Columbia University Press books and those from our distributed presses that were recently named as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles!

September 22, 2014

"Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy" Wins a "50 Books | 50 Covers"

Congratulations to Jordan Wannemacher and the amazing Columbia University Press design department for their design of Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders, by Kyle D. Killian, which was recently selected as one of the 50 Books | 50...

September 3, 2014

Abominable Science! Wins a AAUP Design Award!

Congratulations to designer Philip Pascuzzo and our design department for winning an AAUP award for best book jacket for Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero. Needless to say,...

July 25, 2014

Theodore de Bary Wins a National Humanities Medal

Congratulations to Wm. Theodore De Bary, on winning a National Humanities Medal. De Bary is an esteemed professor of Asian Studies at Columbia University and a longtime Columbia University Press author and editor of our various Sources of Asian civilization...

May 5, 2014

Design Winners from the 2014 New York Book Show!

We were very excited to hear that four of our books were winners in the 2014 New York Book Show. Sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, the award honors, and celebrates excellence in book production and design....

January 9, 2014

Choice Selects 9 Columbia University Press Titles as Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

Every year Choice editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in Choice‘s January issue this list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles. We...