2008 Awards

Scholarly, trade and regional book awards given to University of Minnesota Press books in 2008.

Listed in alphabetical order according to award:

 

American Institute of Pakistan Studies - Junior Book Prize

Making Lahore Modern

 

City of Minneapolis – Heritage Preservation Award in Education and Activism

Twin Cities By Trolley

 

Choice Current Reviews for Academic Libraries – Outstanding Academic Title list

OurSpace

Building a Century of Progress

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing

Hollywood Independents


Eric Hoffer Project – The Montaigne Medal

Aesthetics of Equity

 

The Environmental Design Research Association's 2008 EDRA/Places awards

America Town


Friends of the Duluth Public Library and University of Minnesota Duluth – Northeastern Book Awards

Morgan Park

 

Friends of the St. Paul Public Library – Minnesota Book Award

Land of Amber Waters

 

Gustavus Myers Center – Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards (honorable mention)

Footsteps in the Dark

 

Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians - David Stanley Gebhard Award

St. Paul’s Architecture


Modern Language Association – Allan Bray Memorial Book Award (honorable mention)

Cultural Erotics in Cuban America

 

Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize

Private Lives, Proper Relations

 

National Conference of Black Political Scientists – W.E.B. DuBois Book Award

Revolutionaries to Race Leaders

 

Railway & Locomotive Historical Society – George M. and Constance W. Hilton Book Award

The Tootin’ Louie

 

Society of Dance History Scholars – de la Torre Bueno Prize for Outstanding Book of the Year

The People Have Never Stopped Dancing

 

Vernacular Architecture Forum - Abbott Lowell Cummings Award

A Manufactured Wilderness

 

Western Literature Association - Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies

Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints