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Association of American Publishers Announces Subject Category Winners of 2019 PROSE Awards

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled 48 Subject Category Winners for the 2019 PROSE Awards (#PROSEAwards) honoring scholarly works published in 2018. These winners were selected from 165 Finalists previously identified from the more than 500 entries in this year’s PROSE Awards competition. According to a panel of 18 judges, the Subject Category Winners announced today demonstrate exceptional scholarship and have made make a significant contribution to a field of study.

These 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

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 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Conference. Individual tickets and table sponsorships are available at the luncheon. To register, please contact Sara Pinto at spinto@publishers.org.

 

The 2019 PROSE Award Subject Category Winners

Biological and Life Sciences | Humanities | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Reference Works | Social Sciences

Biological and Life Sciences

Biological Science

• Who We Are and How We Got Here
  Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House
  David Reich

Biomedicine & Neuroscience

• Cajal's Neuronal Forest: Science and Art
  Oxford University Press
  Javier DeFelipe

Clinical Medicine

• Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Cross-Sectional Anatomy
  Demos Medical, an Imprint of Springer Publishing
  John C. Cianca MD, Shounuck I. Patel DO

Nursing & Allied Health  

• Clinical Leadership for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners
  Springer Publishing Company
  Michael Huckabee PhD, PA-C

Clinical Psychology

• The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain
  Yale University Press
  Nick Chater
   

Humanities

Archeology & Ancient History

• Unearthing childhood: Young lives in prehistory
  Manchester University Press
  Robin Derricourt

Art Exhibitions

• Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
  Princeton University Art Museum and Yale University Press
  Karl Kusserow and Alan Braddock

Art History & Criticism

• Orientalist Lives: Western Artists in the Middle East, 1830–1920
  The American University in Cairo Press
  James Parry

Biography & Autobiography

• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
  Oxford University Press
  Jeffrey C. Stewart

Classics

• Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from Its Origins to the Fifth Century
  Bloomsbury
  Richard Hingley

Language & Linguistics

• An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States
  University of California Press
  Rosina Lozano

Literature

• Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
  Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  Daniel Heath Justice

Media and Cultural Studies

• On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
  Harvard University Press
  Matthew Pressman

Music & the Performing Arts

• Guillaume Du Fay: The Life and Works
  Cambridge University Press
  Alejandro Planchart

North American/U.S. History

• The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950
  University of North Carolina Press
  Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt

Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher

• Underbug
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  Lisa Margonelli

Philosophy

• Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
  Oxford University Press
  Kate Manne

Theology/Religious Studies

• Finalist is the highest honor in this category
  See the list of finalists here

World History

• The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
  Cambridge University Press
  Geraldine Heng
   

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Chemistry & Physics

• 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 

Cosmology & Astronomy

• Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
  Cambridge University Press
  Steven J. Dick

Earth Science

• Global Flood Hazard: Applications in Modeling, Mapping and Forecasting
  Wiley
  Guy J-P. Schumann, Paul D. Bates, Heiko Apel, Giuseppe T. Aronica

Engineering & Technology

• Space Safety and Human Performance
  Elsevier
  Tommaso Sgobba, Barbara Kanki, Jean-Francois Clervoy and Gro Sandal

Environmental Science

• Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research
  Cambridge University Press
  Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann

History of Science, Technology and Medicine

• Designing an Internet
  The MIT Press
  David Clark

Mathematics

• High-Dimensional Probability: An Introduction with Applications in Data Science
  Cambridge University Press
  Roman Vershynin

Popular Science & Popular Mathematics

• Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
  Princeton University Press
  Marcia Bjornerud

Reference Works:

eProducts

• BirdGenie™
  Princeton University Press
  Software written by Tom Stephenson, Stephen Travis Pope and Scott Whittle

Best New Journal in Humanities

• ASAP/Journal
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Jonathan Eburne

Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine

• GeoHealth
  AGU and Wiley
  Gabriel Filippelli, Editor in Chief

Best New Journal in Social Sciences

• AERA Open
  SAGE Publishing & AERA
  Mark Warschauer, Nancy E. Hill, and Greg J. Duncan

Innovation in Journal Publishing

• Modernism/modernity Print Plus
  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Debra Rae Cohen

Multivolume Reference/Humanities

• The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching
  Wiley
  Editor in Chief: John I. Liontas

Multivolume Reference/Science

• Encyclopedia of Geochemistry
  Springer
  William M. White 

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

Single Volume Reference/Humanities

• Gardens of the Roman Empire
  Cambridge University Press
  Edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick and Amina-Aïcha Malek

Single Volume Reference/Science

• Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology
  Springer
  Peter Bobrowsky and Brian Marker

Textbook/Biological & Life Sciences

• Pathology of Wildlife and Zoo Animals
  Elsevier
  Karen Terio, Denise McAloose and Judy St. Leger

Textbook/Clinical Science

• Human Biochemistry
  Elsevier
  Gerald Litwack

Textbook/Physical Sciences & Mathematics

• The Physics of Energy
  Cambridge University Press
  Robert L. Jaffe, Washington Taylor

Textbook/Social Sciences

• Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
  Princeton University Press
  Matthew J. Salganik
   

Social Sciences

Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology

• 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

Business, Management and Finance

• Leading with Dignity: How to Create a Culture That Brings Out the Best in People
  Yale University Press
  Donna Hicks

Economics

• EuroTragedy
  Oxford University Press
  Ashoka Mody

Education (Practice and Theory)

• Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech
  Princeton University Press
  Keith E. Whittington

Government, Policy and Politics

• Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President
  Oxford University Press
  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Psychology

• Living on Death Row: The Psychology of Waiting to Die
  American Psychological Association
  Hans Toch, James P. Acker, & Vincent Martin Bonventre

For information about 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

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