January 16, 2019
Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists for 2019 PROSE Awards

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled 165 Finalists across 49 subject categories for the 2019 PROSE Awards (#PROSEAwards) honoring scholarly works published in 2018. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Awards] have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in a given year.
A panel of 18 judges reviewed more than 500 entries in this year’s competition. The Finalists announced today have achieved a tremendous honor that speaks to the breadth and depth of scholarly publishing.
On January 29, 2019, AAP will further refine the field by announcing a Subject Category Winner from among the Finalists in each category. Subject Category Winners will go on to compete for one of four awards:
- The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
- The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
- The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- The 2019 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
Biological and Life Sciences | Humanities | Physical Sciences and Mathemetics | Reference Works | Social Sciences
One of these four will receive, the R.R. Hawkins Award, the ultimate winner of the annual PROSE competition.
AAP will reveal the R.R. Hawkins Award Winner and the four PROSE Award for Excellence Winners at the PROSE Award luncheon in Washington, DC on February 7, 2019 at the 2019 AAP Conference for Professional and Scholarly Publishing. Individual tickets and table sponsorships are available at the luncheon. To register, please contact Sara Pinto at spinto@publishers.org.
The 2019 PROSE Award Finalists by Subject Category
Biological and Life Sciences | Humanities | Physical Sciences and Mathemetics | Reference Works | Social Sciences
Biological and Life Sciences
Biological Science | Biomedicine & Neuroscience | Clinical Medicine | Nursing & Allied Health | Clinical Psychology
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CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, 3rd Edition
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Frances M.D. GullandLeslie A. Dierauf, and Karyl L. Whitman -
Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Princeton University Press
Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day
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First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery
Harvard University Press
Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr
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Management of Animal Care and Use Programs in Research, Education, and Testing, 2nd Edition
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Robert H. Weichbrod, Gail A. (Heidbrink) Thompson, and John N. Norton -
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House
David Reich
- Cajal's Neuronal Forest: Science and Art
Oxford University Press
Javier DeFelipe
- Human Spatial Navigation
Princeton University Press
Arne D. Ekstrom, Hugo J. Spiers, Véronique D. Bohbot & R. Shayna Rosenbaum
- The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis
Princeton University Press
Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson
- Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Cross-Sectional Anatomy
Demos Medical, an Imprint of Springer Publishing
John C. Cianca MD, Shounuck I. Patel DO
- Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis
Elsevier
Robert M. Kliegman, Patricia S. Lye, Brett J. Bordini, Heather Toth, and Donald Basel
- Clinical Leadership for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
Springer Publishing Company
Michael Huckabee PhD, PA-C
- Lehne's Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice Providers, 1st Edition
Elsevier
Laura D. Rosenthal and Jacqueline Rosenjack Burchum
- Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion
Oxford University Press
George Szmukler
- The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
Yale University Press
Nick Chater
- The New Mind Readers: What Neuroimaging Can and Cannot Reveal about Our Thoughts
Princeton University Press
Russell A. Poldrack
- Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond
McGill-Queens University Press
Edited by Cynthia Carson Bisbee, Paul Bisbee, Erika Dyck, Patrick Farrell, James Sexton and James W. Spisak
Humanities
Archeology & Ancient History | Art Exhibitions | Art History & Criticism | Biography & Autobiography | Classics | Language & Linguistics | Literature | Media & Cultural Studies | Music & Performing Arts | North American/U.S. History | Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher | Philosophy | Theology & Religious Studies | World History
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Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World
Getty Publications
Edited by Jeffrey Spier, Timothy Potts, and Sara E. Cole
- The First Farmers of Europe: An Evolutionary Perspective
Cambridge University Press
Stephen Shennan
- Rome Resurgent
Oxford University Press
Peter Heather
- Troy: Myth, City, Icon
Bloomsbury
Naoise Mac Sweeney
- Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistory
Manchester University Press
Robin Derricourt
- Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
Princeton University Art Museum
Karl Kusserow and Alan Braddock
- Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today
Yale University Press
Denise Murrell
- The Renaissance Nude
Getty Publications
Edited by Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell Assisted by Andrea Herrera and Thomas DePasquale
- The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota
RIT Press
Edited by Jessica Marten
- Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings
Yale University Press
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Tim Barringer with Dorothy Mahon, Christopher Riopelle, and Shannon Vittoria
- Artist as Reporter: Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
University of California Press
Jason E. Hill
- Moved to Tears: Rethinking the Art of the Sentimental in the United States
Princeton University Press
Rebecca Bedell
- Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920
The American University in Cairo Press
James Parry
- Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices From the Women's Liberation Movement
NYU Press
Joyce Antler
- The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
The MIT Press
Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Oxford University Press
Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Princeton University Press
Adrienne Mayor
- Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from Its Origins to the Fifth Century
Bloomsbury
Richard Hingley
- Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age
Harvard University Press
Donna Zuckerberg
- A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity
Wiley
Douglas Boin
- An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
University of California Press
Rosina Lozano
- Changing Minds Changing Tools: From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
The MIT Press
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
- Gender from Latin to Romance: History, Geography, Typology
Oxford University Press
Michele Loporcaro
- Learning to Interpret: Working from English Into American Sign Language
RIT Press
Campbell McDermid
- Comfort Measures Only: New and Selected Poems, 1994–2016
Duke University Press
Rafael Campo
- A History of Russian Literature
Oxford University Press
Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler
- Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time by Vladimir Nabokov
Princeton University Press
Vladimir Nabokov, (Compiled, edited, and with commentaries by Gennady Barabtarlo)
- Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Daniel Heath Justice
- The Work of Literary Translation
Cambridge University Press
Clive Scott
- The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth
Bloomsbury
Christopher Schaberg
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
NYU Press
Safiya Umoja Noble
- Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
Yale University Press
Tarleton Gillespie
- Ethics for a Digital Era
Wiley
Deni Elliott and Edward H. Spence
- Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
Oxford University Press
J.E. Smyth
- On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
Harvard University Press
Matthew Pressman
- Critical Approaches to the Production of Music and Sound
Bloomsbury
Samantha Bennett and Eliot Bates
- Freedom's Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans
LSU Press
Photographs by Eric Waters and Narrative by Karen Celestan
- Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works
Cambridge University Press
Alejandro Planchart
- Uncharted: Creativity and the Expert Drummer
University of Michigan
Bill Bruford
- Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara
Cambridge University Press
Laurie Stras
- American Capitalism: New Histories
Columbia University Press
Edited by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan
- Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Cambridge University Press
Martha S. Jones
- Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
Harvard University Press
Michel Gobat
- The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950
University of North Carolina Press
Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
- Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League
NYU Press
Stefan M. Bradley
Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
- Amity and Prosperity
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Eliza Griswold
- Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Touchstone
Linda Kay Klein
- Underbug
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Lisa Margonelli
- Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion
University of Toronto Press
Christopher Byrne
- Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Oxford University Press
Kate Manne
- The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia
NYU Press
Gayle Salamon
- Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
Yale University Press
Wendy Doniger
- God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts
Yale University Press
Brent Nongbri
- The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
Oxford University Press
Alan Jacobs
- Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England 1720-1800
Oxford University Press
Isabel Rivers
- Citizens without Nations: Urban Citizenship in Europe and the World, c.1000–1789
Cambridge University Press
Maarten Prak
- Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present
Bloomsbury
Benjamin Lieberman and Elizabeth Gordon
- The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Cambridge University Press
Geraldine Heng
- The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500-2000
Princeton University Press
John Tutino
- The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
Harvard University Press
Alexander Bevilacqua
- Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Yale University Press
James Loeffler
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Chemistry & Physics | Computing & Information Sciences | Cosmology & Astronomy | Earth Science | Engineering & Technology | Environmental Science | History of Science, Technology and Medicine | Mathematics | Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
- Physical Chemistry of Gas-Liquid Interfaces
Elsevier
Jennifer Faust and J.E. House
Computing & Information Sciences
- Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
The MIT Press
Meredith Broussard
- What Can Be Computed? A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation
Princeton University Press
John MacCormick
- Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
Cambridge University Press
Steven J. Dick
- The Great Silence
Oxford University Press
Milan M. Ćirković
- Geocryology: Characteristics and Use of Frozen Ground and Permafrost Landforms
CRC Press
Stuart A. Harris, Anatoli Brouchkov & Cheng Guodong
- Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping and Forecasting
Wiley
Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica
- Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather
Elsevier
Enrico Camporeale, Simon Wing and Jay Johnson
- High Mobility Materials for CMOS Applications
Elsevier
Nadine Collaert
- Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Twelfth Edition
McGraw-Hill Education
Ali M. Sadegh and William M. Worek
- Space Safety and Human Performance
Elsevier
Tommaso Sgobba, Barbara Kanki, Jean-Francois Clervoy and Gro Sandal
- Vehicle Feedback and Driver Situation Awareness
CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group
Guy H. Walker, Neville A. Stanton, and Paul M. Salmon
- Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic Environments: An Emerging Matter of Environmental Urgency
Elsevier
Eddy Zeng
- Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research
Cambridge University Press
Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Atlas of Refugees, Displaced Populations, and Epidemic Diseases: Decoding Global Geographical Patterns and Processes Since 1901
Oxford University Press
Matthew Smallman-Raynor and Andrew Cliff
- Designing an Internet
The MIT Press
David Clark
- Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Princeton University Press
Theodore M. Porter
- Geometric Group Theory
American Mathematical Society
Cornelia Druţu and Michael Kapovich
- High-Dimensional Probability: An Introduction with Applications in Data Science
Cambridge University Press
Roman Vershynin
- The Theory of Quantum Information
Cambridge University Press
John Watrous
Popular Science & Popular Mathematics
- Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding Boltzmann's Entropy
The MIT Press
Eric Johnson
- Is That a Big Number?
Oxford University Press
Andrew Elliott
- Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Princeton University Press
Marcia Bjornerud
Reference Works
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- BirdGenie™
Princeton University Press
Software written by Tom Stephenson, Stephen Travis Pope and Scott Whittle
- Pan-Cancer Atlas
Cell Press
Lead Editor: Robert Kruger
- Political Extremism & Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-right and Left Political Groups in the U.S., Europe and Australia
Gale, a Cengage company
Rachel Holt
Best New Journal in Humanities
- ASAP/Journal
Johns Hopkins University Press
Jonathan Eburne
- Journal of Chinese History
Cambridge University Press
Patricia Ebrey
Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine
- Case Studies in the Environment
University of California Press
Wil Burns, Editor-in-Chief
- GeoHealth
AGU and Wiley
Gabriel Filippelli, Editor in Chief
Best New Journal in Social Sciences
- AERA Open
SAGE Publishing
Mark Warschauer, Nancy E. Hill, and Greg J. Duncan
- Management Teaching Review
SAGE Publishing
Jane Schmidt-Wilk
- Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
SAGE Publishing
Susan T. Fiske
Innovation in Journal Publishing
- Modernism/modernity Print Plus
Johns Hopkins University Press
Debra Rae Cohen
Multivolume Reference/Humanities
- The Cambridge History of Medieval Music
Cambridge University Press
Edited by Mark Everist, Thomas Forrest Kelly
- The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
Oxford University Press
Edited by Oliver Nicholson
- The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching
Wiley
Editor in Chief: John I. Liontas
- Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations, 3rd Edition
Wiley
Richard C. Larock
- Encyclopedia of Geochemistry
Springer
William M. White
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
Oxford University Press
Edited by Matthew C. Nisbet
Multivolume Reference/Social Sciences
- APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women; Vol. 1: History, Theory, and Battlegrounds; and Vol 2: Perspectives on Women's Private and Public Lives
American Psychological Association
Cheryl B. Travis and Jacquelyn W. White
- Rethinking Society for the 21st Century: Report of the International Panel on Social Progress
Cambridge University Press
International Panel on Social Progress
Single Volume Reference/Humanities
- The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic LiteratureBloomsburyJoseph Tabbi
- Gardens of the Roman EmpireCambridge University PressEdited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason , Kim J. Hartswick, and Amina-Aïcha Malek
- Historical Atlas of HasidismPrinceton University PressMarcin Wodziński
- St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop CultureGale, a Cengage company Thomas Riggs
Single Volume Reference/Science
- Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology
Springer
Peter Bobrowsky and Brian Marker
Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences
- Hidden Persuaders in Cocoa and Chocolate: A Flavor Lexicon for Cocoa and Chocolate Sensory Professionals
Elsevier
Renata Januszewska
- Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals
Elsevier
Karen Terio, Denise McAloose and Judy St. Leger
- An Atlas of Comparative Vertebrate Histology
Elsevier
Donald B. McMillan and Richard James Harris
- Human Biochemistry
Elsevier
Gerald Litwack
Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics
- Machine Learning: A Concise Introduction
Wiley
Steven W. Knox
- The Physics of Energy
Cambridge University Press
Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor
- Weather: A Concise Introduction
Cambridge University Press
Gregory J. Hakim, Jérôme Patoux
- Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Princeton University Press
Matthew J. Salganik
- Canada and the Challenges of International Development and Globalization
Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa|University of Ottawa Press
Edited by Mahmoud Masaeli and Lauchlan T. Munro
Social Sciences
Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology | Architecture and Urban Planning | Business, Management and Finance | Economics | Education (Practice and Theory) | Government, Policy and Politics | Psychology
Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology
- Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life
University of California Press
Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson
- Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
Duke University Press
Sara Ann Wylie
- Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
University of North Carolina Press
Karida L. Brown
- Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia
University of Texas Press
Michael L. Cepek
- Privacy as Trust: Information Privacy for an Information Age
Cambridge University Press
Ari Ezra Waldman
- The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution
NYU Press
Ann Travers
Architecture and Urban Planning
- Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California
University of Texas Press
Adam Arenson
- Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship
University of Texas Press
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
- Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy
Cambridge University Press
Eugene J. Johnson
- Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
Princeton University Press
Robin Schuldenfrei
- Sustainable Nation: Urban Design Patterns for the Future
Wiley
Douglas Farr
Business, Management and Finance
- Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People
Yale University Press
Donna Hicks
- The Economics of Religion in India
Harvard University Press
Sriya Iyer
- EuroTragedy
Oxford University Press
Ashoka Mody
- The Lies We Were Told
Bristol University Press
Simon Wren-Lewis
- Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Princeton University Press
Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
- The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics
Princeton University Press
Kaushik Basu
- Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
Princeton University Press
Paul Tucker
Education (Practice and Theory)
- An Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity and Excellence
The MIT Press
Abigail J. Stewart and Virginia Valian
- It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching
Teachers College Press
Steven Goodman
- Refugees in Higher Education: Debate, Discourse and Practice
Emerald Publishing
Jacqueline Stevenson and Sally Baker
- Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
Princeton University Press
Keith E. Whittington
- Slow Looking: The Art and Practice of Learning Through Observation
Taylor & Francis
Shari Tishman
- Sustainable School Leadership
Bloomsbury
Mike Bottery
Government, Policy and Politics
- At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State
Cambridge University Press
Chloe N. Thurston
- Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President
Oxford University Press
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
- Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politic
Princeton University Pres
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell & Maya Sen
- Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Cambridge University Press
Jamila Michener
- Hacking the Bomb
Georgetown University Press
Andrew Futter
- Living on Death Row: The Psychology of Waiting to Die
American Psychological Association
Hans Toch, James P. Acker, & Vincent Martin Bonventre
- The Mismeasure of Minds: Debating Race and Intelligence between Brown and The Bell Curve
University of North Carolina Press
Michael E. Staub
For information about PROSE Finalists or the PROSE competition contact Susanna Hinds shinds@publishers.org
About the AAP PROSE Awards
Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence [PROSE Awards] have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study in the humanities, biological and physical sciences, reference and social sciences.
About the Association of American Publishers
AAP | The Association of American Publishers represents the leading book, journal, and education publishers in the United States on matters of law and policy, advocating for outcomes that incentivize the publication of creative expression, professional content, and learning solutions. As essential participants in local markets and the global economy, our members invest in and inspire the exchange of ideas, transforming the world we live in one word at a time.