Congratulations are in order for Edwidge Danticat whose book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work won the 2013 Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature!

The prize is awarded by members in the Congress of the Association of Caribbean Writers to an author whose work reflects Caribbean culture, identity, and literature.

Create Dangerously has been heralded for its personal reflection on art, exile, and immigration and the intricate relationships between the three. Danticat was also featured in the documentary film Girl Rising in which she interviews a Haitian girl about what it means to be a girl in Haiti.

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus’ lecture, “Create Dangerously,” and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them. Danticat eulogizes an aunt who guarded her family’s homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as an undocumented alien, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. Danticat writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, a woman mutilated in a machete attack who became a public witness against torture, and the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent. Danticat also suggests that the aftermaths of natural disasters in Haiti and the United States reveal that the countries are not as different as many Americans might like to believe.

The Japanese Consulate released a press release earlier this week announcing “that the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, will be conferred upon Ms. Merry White, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, in recognition of her significant contributions to the development of Japanese studies and the introduction of Japanese culture in the United States of America.”

Citing her extensive travel, research, and writing on the contemporary society and culture of Japan, the Consulate credits Ms. White for “contributions to the development of Japanese studies and the introduction of Japanese culture in the United States of America.”

She has recently published Coffee Life in Japan with University of California Press and this fall will publish Cooking for Crowds: 40th Anniversary Edition with PUP. We look forward to bringing you more info about this special cookbook soon.

A few of PUP authors have recently won awards for their work on the respective books from various assoications. Here is a round-up of recent award winning authors and books- congratulations!

1. Christina L. Davis  author of Why Adjudicate? Enforcing Trade Rules in the WTO  and Judith G. Kelley author of Monitoring Democracy: When International Election Observation Works, and Why It Often Fails

Co-Winners of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize from the International Studies Association

The Chadwick F. Alger Prize recognizes the best book published in the previous calendar year on the subject of international organization and multilateralism. The Award Committee is particularly interested in works dealing with how international organizations interact with nongovernmental organizations and other local civil society actors, as reflected in many of the writings of Chadwick F. Alger.”

2. Christopher P. Loss author of Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century 

Winner of the 2013 AERA Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association

“The AERA Council established this award for the best book-length publication in educational research and development. To be considered for the Award, a book must be concerned with the improvement of the educational process through research or scholarly inquiry, must have a research base, and must have a copyright date of the past two years in the year in which the award is to be given.”

3. Donna R. Gabaccia author of Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective

Winner of the 2013 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society

“The Theodore Saloutos Award is presented for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States. ‘Immigration history’ is defined as the history of the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin.”

PUP is proud to congratulate six of our authors for receiving fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The Guggenheim Foundation awards fellowships to individuals from different background and fields of study who have shown previous achievements in their work and who continue to work towards more success.

Of the 175 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded Fellowships this year, PUP congratulates these six scholars for their accomplishments in their fields of study:

Graham Burnett for history of science, technology, and economics. Author of Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature.

Susannah Heschel for intellectual & cultural history. Author of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi German.

Troy Jollimore for poetry. Author of At Lake Scugog: Poems and Love’s Vision.

Leah Price for intellectual & cultural history. Author of How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain.

Leigh Schmidt for religion. Author of Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays Public.

Ann Taves for religion. Author of Fits, Trances, and Visions: Experiencing Religion and Explaining Experience from Wesley to James and Religious Experience Reconsidered: A Building-Block Approach to the Study of Religion and Other Special Things

Congratulations!

Four of PUP’s books were all recently chosen as either winners or finalists for various book awards! Congratulations to our books’ authors and editors.

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought edited by Gerhard Bowering
Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J. Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, associate editors
Mahan Mirza, assistant editor

One of Library Journal’s Best Reference of 2012, Law & Politics

Summary as seen on Library Journal- In this timely volume, 15 major entries examine key topics such as Muhammad, jihad, gender, fundamentalism, and pluralism. The remaining nearly 400 entries focus on the origin and evolution of Islamic political terms, concepts, personalities, movements, places, and schools of thought. The article on sharia (sacred law of Islam) is one of the longest. There are detailed entries on Shiism and Sunnism, to which the majority of contemporary Muslims adhere. The editor is professor of Islamic Studies at Yale.

Full list of winners here.

Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church by Timothy Matovina

Winner of the 2013 Paul J. Foik, C.S.C. Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society

“The Rev. Paul J. Foik Award is given annually to a library faculty member who has contributed significantly to library service to the Notre Dame community or to the library profession through personal scholarship or involvement in professional associations. The award is named for the Holy Cross priest who served as director of Notre Dame’s library from 1912 to 1924 and was a leading figure in the library profession in the first quarter of the 20th century.”

Latino Catholicism highlights the vital contributions of Latinos to American religious and social life, demonstrating in particular how their engagement with the U.S. cultural milieu is the most significant factor behind their ecclesial and societal impact.

Manhunts: A Philosophical History by Grégoire Chamayou, Translated by Steven Rendall

Finalist in the 26^th Annual Translation Prize (Non Fiction), French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation, “Best French to English Translations of Fiction and Non-Fiction in 2012 Honored”

The Translation Prize has established itself as a valuable element of the intellectual and cultural exchange between the two countries by promoting French literature in the United States, encouraging the American publishers that bring significant French texts to the English reading audience, and giving translators and their craft more visibility.

The winning fiction and nonfiction translators will be announced on June 5^th in New York.

Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have defied authority, committed crimes, seemed dangerous simply for existing, or been categorized as subhuman or dispensable.

Full list of winners here.

College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco

Winner of the 2013 Philip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Education, University Professional and Continuing Education Association 

This is the THIRD consecutive year that PUP has won the Frandson Award! Previous PUP winners are

• 2012 – Taylor Walsh, Unlocking the Gates
• 2011 – Ben Wildavsky, The Great Brain Race

In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America’s democratic promise.