Recent book awards

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HISTORY

Winner, General History Category, 2015 New South Wales Premier’s History Award:

Intolerant Bodies:  A Short History of Autoimmunity by Warwick Anderson and Ian R. Mackay

History of Science Society’s 2015 Sarton Medal for lifetime scholarly achievement:

Robert Fox, author of The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France

LITERATURE

Winner, Modernist Studies Association 2015 Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection:

The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, Volume 2, The Perfect Critic, 1919–1926, edited by Anthony Cuda and Ronald Schuchard

Winner, Modern Language Association’s 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize:

Freedom Time: The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing by Anthony Reed

 POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY

Best Book in Information, Communication, and Politics, American Political Science Association section on Information, Communication, and Politics:

Democracy’s Double-Edged Sword by Catie Bailard

CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLES

 Arthur Ashe: Tennis and Justice in the Civil Rights Era, by Eric Allen Hall

Atlas of Crustacean Larvae, Joel W. Martin, Jørgen Olesen, and Jens T. Høeg, eds.

Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power, by Martha Joynt Kumar

Freshwater Fishes of North America: Volume 1, Petromyzontidae to Catostomidae, Melvin L. Warren, Jr., and Brooks M. Burr, eds.

Genealogical Fictions: Cultural Periphery and Historical Change in the Modern Novel, by Jobst Welge

More than Hot: A Short History of Fever, by Christopher Hamlin

Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry, by S. D. Lamb

Primate Comparative Anatomy, by Daniel L. Gebo

Reflections on Uneven Democracies: The Legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell, Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras, and Scott Mainwaring, eds.

The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics, by Scott H. Podolsky

The Cybernetics Moment, or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, by Ronald R. Kline

The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Last Great Projects, 1890-1895, David Schuyler, Gregory Kaliss, and Jeffrey Schlossberg, eds.