Browse Award Winners



From Here to Tierra del Fuego

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Author: Paul Magee

Science and Social Inequality

Received the Gender Equity in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association, 2009.

Author: Sandra Harding

Visiting Picasso

Poet Laureate of Oklahoma for 2009-2010.

Author: Jim Barnes

American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century

A Choice Oustanding Academic Title, 2009

Author: Anne Fliotsos and Wendy Vierow

Radical Sisters

Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 2009.

Author: Anne M. Valk

Laboring to Learn

Awarded the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, 2009.

Author: Lorna Rivera

Sing It Pretty

Received an honorable mention from the International Alliance for Women in Music, 2009

Author: Bess Lomax Hawes

Finding Cholita

Received the honorable mention award for the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology, 2009

Author: Billie Jean Isbell

Health Culture in the Heartland, 1880-1980

Received a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2009

Author: Lucinda McCray Beier

A Map of the Night

Winner of the 2009 Washington State Book Award in Poetry.

Author: David Wagoner

Dime Novel Desperadoes

Received the Society of Midland Authors Award in the category of Biography, 2009. Received a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2009

Author: John E. Hallwas

Charles Ives Reconsidered

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009

Author: Gayle Sherwood Magee

Working Girl Blues

Winner of a Certificate of Merit for the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, 2009

Author: Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone

The Calumet Region

Received second place in the 2009 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition for books prepared by museums with budgets of less than $750,000.

Author: Photographs by Gary Cialdella