Awards - Columbia University Press Blog

January 7, 2011

Columbia University Press Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 from Choice

Congratulations to the 10 books named as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010! Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. Appearing annually in...

December 16, 2010

Year-End Accolades for Smart Growth by Edward Hess

Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth, by Edward Hess has been receiving a variety of year-end accolades. Inc. Magazine listed it as one of the year’s best for business owners. In recommending the book,...

December 6, 2010

Alexander C. Y. Huang wins the Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies

Congratulations to Alexander C. Y. Huang who recently won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies for his book, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange. The committee’s citation for Huang’s book reads: Alexander C. Y. Huang’s...

November 11, 2010

Siddharth Kara Wins the Frederick Douglass Book Prize

We were very excited to learn that Siddharth Kara won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. The prize goes to the best book written in English on slavery or abolition....

October 28, 2010

Stalking the Black Swan by Kenneth Posner Wins at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Congratulations to Kenneth Posner’s whose Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility won the prize for the best foreign book in business at the Sharjah International Book Fair. For more on the book...

October 21, 2010

Award Winner! Triumph of Order Wins the Kenneth Jackson Book Award

The Triumph Of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London, by Lisa Keller has been selected as a co-recipient of the Kenneth Jackson Book Award. Congratulations to Lisa Keller. For more on the book browse the book...

October 19, 2010

Award Winner! Ted Striphas for "The Late Age of Print"

Congratulations to Ted Striphas, whose Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control recently won the 2010 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Critical Cultural Studies Division. For more on the book read an excerpt...

October 12, 2010

Award Winner! The African Diaspora, by Patrick Manning

Congratulations to Patrick Manning, whose book The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture was recently named the winner of the 2010 Association of Third World Studies Toyin Falola Africa Book Award. Here’s what the judges of the book had to...

October 5, 2010

From Empathy to Denial wins The Washington Institute Book Prize

The Washington Institute announced that From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust has won the Gold Prize. The Washington Institute Book Prize, now in its third year, was established to highlight new nonfiction books on the Middle East...

August 5, 2010

And the Winner Is……

Those are words we are hoping to hear soon as a number of Columbia University Press books have made it to the final rounds of award competitions and we are waiting to hear if we are the lucky winner. Yesterday...

June 23, 2010

Joseph Kip Kosek Wins Best First Book in the History of Religion for Acts of Conscience

We are pleased to announce that the American Academy of Religion named Joseph Kip Kosek’s Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy was named the Best First Book in the History of Religions prize. For more on the...

February 17, 2010

Best Translated Book Award 2010

Last night the shortlist for The Best Translated Book Award was announced at Idlewild Books. Unfortunately (for us), There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, by Cao Naiqian, which was on the longlist did...

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