Awards - Columbia University Press Blog

May 5, 2009

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality Receives a Macavity Award Nomination

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, for receiving a Macavity award nomination in the category of Best Nonfiction/Critical book. The Macavity awards are selected by Mystery Readers International. Hard-Boiled Sentimentality was...

March 16, 2009

Political Manhood by Kevin Murphy Named as a Finalist for the Lambda Awards

The Lambda Literary Foundation named Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, by Kevin Murphy as a finalist in the category of LGBT Studies. The winners will be announced on May 28th. In a review...

January 26, 2009

Seth Lerer Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Congratulations to Seth Lerer on being nominated for an NBCC Award in the category of Criticism for his book, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.

January 21, 2009

Leonard Cassuto Nominated for an Edgar

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto for his Edgar nomination in the category of Best Critical Work / Biography for Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories. The Edgars are an annual award selected by the Mystery Writers of America...

January 16, 2009

Columbia University Press Outstanding Academic Titles from 2008

Every year, Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during the previous calendar year. This prestigious list of publications reflects the best in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from...

December 5, 2008

Judging Books by Their Covers — The New York Book Show Awards

Several Columbia University Press titles won awards in the New York Book Show. The awards are sponsored by the Bookbinders’ Guild of New York and recognize excellence in book production and design. The winners for book design were Four Jews...

August 19, 2008

Award News – Reworking Race

Earlier this month at the American Sociological Association annual conference the Labor and Labor Movements Section named Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement, by Moon-kie Jung the Best Book on Race, Labor, and Empire. Reworking Race looks...

May 20, 2008

Award News: Rebecca Walkowitz for Cosmopolitan Style

We here at the Press continue to be committed to publishing exciting new monographs and first books by up-and-coming scholars, so it always good when of those works and their authors get their due. At the recent International Conference on...

March 20, 2008

Award Update: Lambda and Choice

Congratulations to Beth Firestein and all of the contributors to Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals Across the Lifespan for being named a finalist in the Bisexual category of the 20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards. We’ve also posted an interview with Beth...

February 27, 2008

I Love Dollars: Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize

I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen and translated by Julia Lovell was selected as a finalist for The Kiriyama Prize in the fiction category. The other finalists are Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (The Dial...

February 12, 2008

The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama Wins the PSP Award for Best Reference Work

On February 7th, the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers named The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, edited by Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn, as Best of Reference for 2007 as part of the...

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