January 25, 2022
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES FINALISTS AND CATEGORY WINNERS FOR 2022 PROSE AWARDS
Washington, DC – The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled the 106 finalists and 39 Category Winners for the 46th Annual PROSE Awards honoring scholarly works published in 2021.
“This year’s PROSE Award entries overwhelmingly raised the bar in quality, content, and diversity, reflecting the profound expertise that goes into creating scholarly publications in every conceivable area of study,” commented Syreeta Swann, Chief Operating Officer, AAP. “We are pleased to announce that our panel of 24 judges has reviewed more than 560 entries, in the process singling out 106 titles to be honored as finalists. From this list, our judges then identified 39 outstanding titles to be honored as Category Winners.”
Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones, Chief Judge of the PROSE Awards, added, “Despite all the trials and tribulations of the last year the standard of entries has been universally high. This led to very close competition in almost all subject areas and will lead no doubt to stiff competition among the Awards for Excellence nominees.”
The 39 Category Winners will now be eligible for the next level of PROSE honors – the Awards for Excellence winners, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Awards for Excellence winners comprise the following four awards:
- The 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
- The 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
- The 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- The 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
Of these four Awards for Excellence winners, one will receive the PROSE Awards highest honor, the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award.
Finalists are listed below according to their category, with finalists chosen as Category Winners highlighted in blue.
The 2022 PROSE Awards
Finalists and Category Winners
Biological and Life Sciences
Biological Sciences
Category Winner
Ant Architecture, Walter R. Tschinkel, Princeton University Press
Finalists
Exuberant Life: An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galapagos, William H. Durham, Oxford University Press
The Evolution of Social Behaviour, Michael Taborsky , Michael A. Cant , and Jan Komdeur, Cambridge University Press
Biomedicine
Category Winner
Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World, Nina Kraus, The MIT Press
Finalist
The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds, Mark Humphries, Princeton University Press
Clinical Medicine
Category Winner
Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin, Harvard University Press
Finalists
Neuroscience for Clinicians: Basic Processes, Circuits, Disease Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Implications, Eduardo E. Benarroch, Oxford University Press
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender, Stef M. Shuster, NYU Press
Neuroscience
Category Winner
Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind, Stephen Grossberg, Oxford University Press
Finalist
The Secret Body: How the New Science of the Human Body Is Changing the Way We Live, Daniel M. Davis, Princeton University Press
Nursing and Allied Health
Category Winner
Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology: Essentials for Clinical Practice, Nancy Tkacs, PhD, RN; Linda Herrmann, PhD, RN, ACHPN, AGACNP-BC, GNP-BC, FAANP; and Randall Johnson, PhD, RN, Springer Publishing Company
Finalists
Communication and Care Coordination for the Palliative Care Team, Rebecca S. Imes, PhD; Leah M. Omilion-Hodges PhD; and Jennifer Hester DNP, ACHPN, AOCNS, Springer Publishing Company
Newman and Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist, Michael G. Newman, Lory Laughter, Gwendolyn Essex, and Satheesh Elangovan, Elsevier, Inc.
Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
Category Winner
Undoing Aloneness and the Transformation of Suffering into Flourishing: AEDP 2.0, Edited by Diana Fosha, American Psychological Association
Humanities
Art Exhibitions
Category Winner
Cézanne Drawing, Jodi Hauptman and Samantha Friedman, The Museum of Modern Art
Finalists
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, Lisa Volpe, Yale University Press
Holbein: Capturing Character, Edited by Anne T. Woollett, with contributions by Austėja Mackelaitė, John T. McQuillen, and others, J. Paul Getty Museum
Art History & Criticism
Category Winner
Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna, Babette Bohn, Penn State University Press
Finalists
Communicating Knowledge Visually: Will Burtin’s Scientific Approach to Information Design, R. Roger Remington and Sheila Pontis, Ph.D., RIT Press
Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence, Rebekah Compton, Cambridge University Press
Biography & Autobiography
Category Winner
Eunice Hunton Carter: A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice, Marilyn S. Greenwald and Yun Li, Fordham University Press
Finalists
The Black President, Claude A. Clegg III, Johns Hopkins University Press
Bright Galaxies, Dark Matter, and Beyond: The Life of Astronomer Vera Rubin, Ashley Jean Yeager, The MIT Press
Biological Anthropology, Ancient History & Archaeology
Category Winner
Julius Caesar and the Roman People, Robert Morstein-Marx, Cambridge University Press
Finalists
A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East: Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam, Douglas R. Frayne and Johanna H. Stuckey, with illustrations by Stéphane Beaulieu, Penn State University Press
Evolutionary Human Sciences, Professor Ruth Mace, Cambridge University Press
Classics
Category Winner
Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama , Nancy Worman, Bloomsbury
Finalist
The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights, Rachel Hall Sternberg, University of Texas Press
European History
Category Winner
An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries, Emma Rothschild, Princeton University Press
Finalist
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance, Michael S. Neiberg, Harvard University Press
Language & Linguistics
Category Winner
Transgender Identities in the Press: A Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, Angela Zottola, Bloomsbury
Finalist
Storytelling and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives, Anthony Nanson, Bloomsbury
Literature
Category Winner
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature, Farah Jasmine Griffin, W. W. Norton & Company
Finalists
The Quick and the Dead: Selected Stories, Mairtin O Cadhain; Translated from the Irish; Introduction by Louis de Paor, Yale University Press
The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire, Erica R. Edwards, New York University Press
The Idea of Europe: A Critical History, Shane Weller, Cambridge University Press
Media and Cultural Studies
Category Winner
Empire of Ruins: American Culture, Photography, and the Spectacle of Destruction, Miles Orvell, Oxford University Press
Finalists
Blackface, Ayanna Thompson, Bloomsbury
Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship, Cherian George and Sonny Liew, The MIT Press
Music & the Performing Arts
Category Winner
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Daphne A. Brooks, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Finalist
Soundtrack to a Movement African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism, Richard Brent Turner, NYU Press
Nonfiction Graphic Novels
Category Winner
The King of Bangkok, Claudio Sopranzetti, Sara Fabbri, and Chiara Natalucci, University of Toronto Press
Finalists
Red Lines: Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship, Cherian George and Sonny Liew, The MIT Press
Hakim’s Odyssey, Book 1: From Syria to Turkey, Fabien Toulmé, Graphic Mundi / Penn State University Press
North American History
Category Winner
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, Mia Bay, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Finalists
Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, Cameron Blevins, Oxford University Press
Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship, Allyson Stevenson, University of Toronto Press
Outstanding Works by a Trade Publisher
Category Winner
Cuba: An American History, Ada Ferrer, Scribner
Finalists
How Rights Went Wrong, Jamal Greene, Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins
HALFWAY HOME, Reuben Miller, Little Brown and Company
Philosophy
Category Winner
Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution, Jon Stewart, Cambridge University Press
Finalists
One Over Many: The Unitary Pluralism of Plato’s World, Necip Fikri Alican, SUNY Press
A Companion to Chomsky, Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey, John Wiley & Sons
Theology & Religious Studies
Category Winner
Jews and the Qur’an, Meir M. Bar-Asher, Foreword by Mustafa Akyol, Translated by Ethan Rundell, Princeton University Press
Finalists
Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles, Lawrence M. Wills, Yale University Press
When the Medium Was the Mission: The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture, Jenna Supp-Montgomerie, New York University Press
World History
Category Winner
Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Duke University Press
Finalists
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World, Marie Favereau, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province, Ümit Kurt, Harvard University Press
Physical Science and Mathematics
Chemistry/Physics
Category Winner
Introduction to Effective Field Theory: Thinking Effectively about Hierarchies of Scale, C. P. Burgess, Cambridge University Press
Finalists
Modern Classical Mechanics, T. M. Helliwell and V. V. Sahakian, Cambridge University Press
Quantum Field Theory: A Diagrammatic Approach, Ronald Kleiss, Cambridge University Press
Computing & Information Sciences
Category Winner
Deep Learning in Science, Pierre Baldi, Cambridge University Press
Finalists
The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design, Daniel Jackson, Princeton University Press
Compressive Imaging: Structure, Sampling, Learning, Ben Adcock and Anders C. Hansen, Cambridge University Press
Earth Science
Category Winner
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be, Martin Williams, Princeton University Press
Finalist
Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis, Jack Baker, Brendon Bradley, and Peter Stafford, Cambridge University Press
Engineering & Technology
Category Winner
Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures, Katy Börner, The MIT Press
Finalists
Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution, Skylar Tibbits, Princeton University Press
Biofluid Mechanics: Analysis and Applications, James B. Grotberg, Cambridge University Press
Environmental Science
Category Winner
One Earth, Edited by Lewis Collins, Shanshan Zhang, and Abel Barral Cuesta, Cell Press
Finalists
Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene, Andy Haines and Howard Frumkin, Cambridge University Press
The Fight for Climate After COVID-19, Alice C. Hill, Oxford University Press
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Category Winner
Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, Kyle Harper, Princeton University Press
Finalists
Mind, State, and Society: Social History of Psychaitry and Mental Health in Britain 1960-2010, Edited by George Ikkos and Nick Bouras, Cambridge University Press
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made, Vaclav Smil, Oxford University Press
Innovation in Journal Publishing
Category Winner
Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, Stefano M. Bertozzi, The MIT Press
Mathematics
Category Winner
Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem, Michael A. Hill, Michael J. Hopkins, and Douglas C. Ravenel, Cambridge University Press
Finalists
The Discrete Mathematical Charms of Paul Erdfős: A Simple Introduction, Vašek Chvátal, Cambridge University Press
Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding, Thomas C. Hull, Cambridge University Press
Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts, Tristan Needham, Princeton University Press
Popular Science/Math
Category Winner
Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards, Jessica Wynne, Princeton University Press
Finalists
Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life, Timothy J. Jorgensen, Princeton University Press
Quick(er) Calculations, Trevor Davis Lipscombe, Oxford University Press
Social Sciences
Architecture and Urban Planning
Category Winner
Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence, Tara A. Dudley, University of Texas Press
Finalists
The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930: Cityscapes, Photographs, Debates, Edited by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato, Getty Research Institute
Modernity for the Masses: Antonio Bonet’s Dreams for Buenos Aires, Ana María León, University of Texas Press
Business, Finance & Management
Category Winner
Management as a Calling: Leading Business, Serving Society, Andrew J. Hoffman, Stanford University Press
Finalists
Ultimate Gig, John T. Fleming and Lauren Lawley Head, Emerald Publishing
Cultural Anthropology & Sociology
Category Winner
HALFWAY HOME, Reuben Miller, Little, Brown and Company
Finalists
American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Princeton University Press
Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town, Colin Jerolmack, Princeton University Press
Economics
Category Winner
How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us, Lucy Bernholz, The MIT Press
Finalist
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, Eswar S. Prasad, Harvard University Press
Education Practice & Theory
Category Winner
A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K–12 Education, Frederick M. Hess and Pedro A. Noguera, Teachers College Press
Finalists
How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio, Naomi S. Baron, Oxford University Press
Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation, Ebony Omotola McGee, Harvard Education Press
Government & Politics
Category Winner
A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet, Jo Handelsman, Yale University Press
Finalists
Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics, Mark Fathi Massoud, Cambridge University Press
political science is for everybody: an introduction to political science, amy l. atchison, University of Toronto Press
Legal Studies and Criminology
Category Winner
A Constitution for the Living: Imagining How Five Generations of Americans Would Rewrite the Nation’s Fundamental Law, Beau Breslin, Stanford University Press
Finalists
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice, David Alan Sklansky, Harvard University Press
The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse, Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine, Beacon Press
Psychology and Applied Social Work
Category Winner
Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice, Radosveta Dimitrova, David Lackland Sam, and Laura Ferrer Wreder, Oxford University Press
Finalists
The Intellectual Lives of Children, Susan Engel, Harvard University Press
Generation Disaster: Coming of Age Post-9/11, Karla Vermeulen, Oxford University Press