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Upcoming Exhibits
The University of Virginia Press will be exhibiting books
and meeting with authors at the following conferences. If
you're attending, please drop by and see us.
Society of Architectural
Historians (SAH)
April 23-27, 2008
Cincinnati, OH
Booth #11
BookExpo America
(BEA)
May 29-June 1, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Booth #317
American
Library Association (ALA)
June 26-July 2, 2008
Anaheim, CA
Booth #724
Society
for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
July 17-20, 2008
Philadelphia, PA
American Political
Science Association (APSA)
August 28-31, 2008
Boston, MA
Booth-sharing with University of Notre Dame Press
Southern
Historical Association (SHA)
October 10-12, 2008
New Orleans, LA
American
Academy of Religion (AAR)
November 1-3, 2008
Chicago, IL
Booth #608 (sharing with Catholic University of America
Press)
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The American Literatures Initiative
The University of Virginia Press is one
five presses collaborating on the American
Literatures Initiative, an innovative, entrepreneurial,
cooperative effort to expand the number of books published
in literary studies and to increase the audience for
them by using common resources available to the five
presses through a grant from The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation.
We welcome submissions for our series
New World Studies,
which publishes interdisciplinary, multilingual research
that seeks to redefine the cultural map of the Americas,
encompassing the Caribbean and continental North, Central,
and South America. We also consider work in twentieth-century
American literature, Black American literature and culture,
and ethnic and postcolonial studies in language and
literature. Please contact our Humanities Editor, Cathie
Brettschneider at cib8b@virginia.edu.
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2008
Walker Cowen Manuscript Prize Competition
in Eighteenth-Century Studies
We invite submissions for the Walker
Cowen Memorial Prize. The prize is awarded
to the author of a scholarly book-length
manuscript in eighteenth-century studies,
including the Americas and the Atlantic
world. Submissions may be in history (including
history of science), literature, philosophy,
or the arts. The competition is held annually.
The winner of the Cowen Prize will receive
a $5,000 award and will be offered an
advance publishing contract by the University
of Virginia Press. The prize honors the
late Walker Cowen, second Director of
the Press from 1969 until his death in
1987.
Click here for an official
application form
Request an application form or send
queries to:
Angie Hogan
The University of Virginia Press
PO Box 400318
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318
arh2h@virginia.edu
Application deadline
To be considered for the 2008 award, manuscripts
should be submitted no later than November
1, 2008. Manuscripts will not be returned.
Foreign-language works first published
in Europe will also be considered for
the prize and for translation into English.
Announcement of the winning manuscript
will be made in April 2009.
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Laney Prize Goes to Greene
The Austin Civil War Round Table of
Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Laney Prize
to A. Wilson Greene's Civil
War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible
of War. The Laney Prize is given for distinguished
scholarship and writing on the military and political
history of the American Civil War.
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Engell Receives Frederick W. Ness Award
The Association
of American Colleges and Universities has announced
James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield's Saving Higher
Education in the Age of Money as the 2006 recipient
of the Frederick W. Ness Award. The award., which
recognizes a book that contributes to the understanding
and improvement of liberal education, was established
in 1979 to honor AAC&U's president emeritus, Frederic
W. Ness.
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Weddle Recognized
In 1999, the William E. Colby Military
Writers' Symposium introduced the Colby
Award, recognizing a first work of fiction or non-fiction
that has made a major contribution to the understanding
of intelligence operations, military history, or international
affairs.This year's winner is Kevin J. Weddle's Lincoln's
Tragic Admiral. The book has also been named
as the runner-up for the 2005 Theodore
and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize. This
is the first time in the history of this prestigious
award that a finalist has been designated.
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Morgan Receives Special Pulitzer Citation
Edmund S. Morgan, emeritus professor of
history at Yale University and author of The
Meaning of Independence, has won a special
citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee for "a
creative and deeply influential body of work as an American
historian that spans half a century."
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