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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)



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.

 

Jamestown Book Strikes Gold

Avery Chenoweth and Robert Llewellyn's Empires in the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America has won gold (first place) as Best Regional Non-Fiction book (Mid-Atlantic category) in the 2007 Independent Publisher Regional Book Awards. A complete listing of winners can be found here.

 

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.

 

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.

Leo Gershoy Award Goes To Howard Brown

Howard G. Brown's Ending the French Revolution: Violence, Justice, and Repression from the Terror to Napoleon has received the 2006 Leo Gershoy Award. The award is given annually by the American Historical Association to the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history.

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.

 

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.

 

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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