Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards Winners

We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2022 Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards. They are:

Grand Prize Winner:
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., by Peniel Joseph, Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Professor of Public Affairs; Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs; Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts

Finalists (in alphabetical order by author):
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, by Sarah Brayne, Associate Professor of Sociology in the College of Liberal Arts

Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, by Judith Coffin, Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts

Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World, by R. Alan Covey, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts

Explore the Gallery of 2022 Hamilton Book Nominations.

We thank all members of the review committees who contributed their time and expertise in selecting this year’s winners. Kudos as well to all nominees for the remarkable work submitted for consideration.

For more information, contact: honorific-vpr@austin.utexas.edu.

We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2020 Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards. They are:

Grand Prize Winner:
Bowlaway: A Novel, by Elizabeth McCracken, Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts.

Top Textbook Prize:
The Heart of Community Engagement: Practitioner Stories from Across the Globe, by Patricia Wilson, Professor in the School of Architecture.

Runner Up Prizes (in alphabetical order by author):
Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire, by Adam John Clulow, Associate Professor in the Department of History, College of Liberal Arts.

Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance, by Ken-Hou Lin, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, with co-author Megan Tobias Neely, Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University.

This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia, by Joan Neuberger, Professor in the Department of History and the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, College of Liberal Arts.

Explore the Gallery of 2020 Hamilton Book Nominations.

We thank all members of the review committees who contributed their time and expertise in selecting this year’s winners. Kudos as well to all nominees for the remarkable work submitted for consideration.

For more information, contact: honorific-vpr@austin.utexas.edu.

We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2019 Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards. They are:

Grand Prize:
The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng, Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts

Top Textbook Prize:
Human Trafficking: Applying Research, Theory, and Case Studies, by Noël Busch-Armendariz, Professor at the School of Social Work, and Director of the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work, with Co-Authors: Maura Nsonwu, Laurie Cook Heffron

Runners-up (in alphabetical order by author):
Little, A Novel by Edward Carey (Jonathan Harvey), Associate Professor in the Department of English, College of Liberal Arts

No Exit by Yoav Di-Capua, Professor at the Department of History, College of Liberal Arts

America’s Lone Star Constitution – How Supreme Court Cases from Texas Shape the Nation by Lucas A. Powe, Jr., Professor in the School of Law, and the Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts

Honorable Mention:
Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune by Joshua David Eisenman, former Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs

Explore the Gallery of 2019 Hamilton Book Nominations.

We thank all members of the review committees who contributed their time and expertise in selecting this year’s winners. Kudos as well to all nominees for the remarkable work submitted for consideration.

For more information, contact: honorific-vpr@austin.utexas.edu.

We are pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2018 Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Awards. They are:

Grand Prize Winner:
Daina Berry, Department of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, College of Liberal Arts for: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation

Runners up (in alphabetical order):
Michael Hudec, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences for: Salt Tectonics: Principles and Practice

Jacqueline Jones, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts for: Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons

Jeremi Suri, LBJ School of Public Affairs; Department of History, College of Liberal Arts for: The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office

Explore the Gallery of 2018 Hamilton Book Nominations.

We thank the members of both review panels who contributed their time and expertise in selecting this year’s winners. Kudos as well to all nominees for the remarkable work submitted for consideration.

For more information, contact: honorific-vpr@austin.utexas.edu.

Visit the University Co-op Awards 2017 page to see this year's grand prize winner and runner-up prizes.

See the news release about the 2017 Hamilton Book Awards.

Grand Prize Winner

Jordan Steiker, School of Law  (co-author Carol Steiker)
“Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment” (Harvard University Press)

Runners-Up

• George Flaherty, Department of Art and Art History, and the Center for Mexican American Studies, College of Fine Arts
  “Hotel Mexico: Dwelling on the ’68 Movement” (University of California Press)
• Karen Maness (with Richard M. Isackes), Department of Theatre and Dance, and the Texas Performing Arts, College of Fine Arts
  “The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop” (Regan Arts/A Phaidon Global Company)
• Michael Webber, Energy Institute, and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
  "Thirst for Power: Energy, Water and Human Survival” (Yale University Press)

Visit the University Co-op Awards 2016 page to see this year's grand prize winner and runner-up prizes.

Grand Prize Winner

Charles Ramirez Berg, Department of Radio Television Film, Moody College of Communication
“The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films” (University of Texas Press)

Runners-Up

• Kamran Asdar Ali, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  “Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947-1972” (I.B. Tauris & Co.)
• Madeline Y. Hsu, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
  “The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority” (Princeton University Press)
• Luis H. Zayas, School of Social Work
  “Forgotten Citizens: Deportation, Children, and the Making of American Exiles and Orphans” (Oxford University Press)

See the news release about the 2015 Hamilton Book Awards.

Grand Prize Winner

Stephennie F. Mulder, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, College of Liberal Arts
“The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence”; Edinburgh University Press

Runners-Up

• Donna M. Kornhaber, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
  “Charlie Chaplin, Director”; Northwestern University Press
• Fernando L. Lara and Luis E. Carranza, School of Architecture
  “Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia”; University of Texas Press
• Kelly S. McDonough, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Liberal Arts
  “The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico”; University of Arizona Press

Grand Prize Winner

Denise A. Spellberg, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
“Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders”; Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Runners-Up

• Desmond F. Lawler, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
  “Water Quality Engineering: Physical/Chemical Treatment Processes”; John Wiley & Sons
• Huaiyin Li, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
  “Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing”; University of Hawaii Press
• Allison E. Lowery, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine Arts
  “Historical Wig Styling: Volumes 1 and 2”; Focal Press/Taylor and Francis Group
• Mark Metzler, Department of Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
  “Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter's Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle”; Cornell University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Julia E. Guernsey, Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts
“Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica”; Cambridge University Press

Runners-Up

• James K. Galbraith, LBJ School of Public Affairs
  “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis”; Oxford University Press
• Francis J. Gavin, LBJ School of Public Affairs
  “Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age”; Cornell University Press
• Robin D. Moore, Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts
  “Musics of Latin America”; W.W. Norton & Co.
• Laurie Scott and Cornelia Watkins, Laurie Scott, Butler School of Music, College of Fine Arts and Cornelia Watkins, Lecturer in Music at Rice University
  “From the Stage to the Studio: How Fine Musicians Become Great Teachers”; Oxford University Press

Grand Prize Winner

James W. Pennebaker, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts
“The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us” ; Bloomsbury Press

Runners-Up

• John C. Abbott, Section of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
  “Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide”, University of Texas Press
• Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
  “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides?: Abortion, Neonatal Care, Assisted Dying, and Capital Punishment”; Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group
• Raymond L. Neubauer, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
  “Evolution and the Emergent Self: The Rise of Complexity and Behavioral Versatility in Nature”; Columbia University Press
• Circe D. Sturm, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
  “Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century”; SAR Press (School for Advanced Research)

Grand Prize Winner

L. Michael White, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts
"Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite," Harper One (Harper Collins)

Runners-Up

• Richard Graham, Department of History College of Liberal Arts
  "Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780-1860," University of Texas Press
• David M. Hillis, Section of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
  "Principles of Life" (textbook), Sinauer Associates and W. H. Freeman
• Inga Markovits, School of Law
  "Justice in Lüritz: Experiencing Socialist Law in East Germany," Princeton University Press
• Karl Miller, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
  "Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow," Duke University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Dr. Shirley E. Thompson, Department of American Studies
"Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans," published by Harvard University Press

Runners-Up

• Dr. Oscar G. Brockett, Department of Theatre and Dance
  "Making the Scene: A History of Stage Design and Technology in Europe and the United States," published by Tobin Theatre Arts Fund (distributed by University of Texas Press)
• Dr. Huaiyin Li, Department of History
  "Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008"
• Dr. Robin D. Moore, Butler School of Music
  "Music in the Hispanic Caribbean"
• Dr. Richard R. Valencia, Department of Educational Psychology
  "Chicano Students and the Courts: The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality"

Grand Prize Winner

Thomas O. McGarity, J.D. and Wendy E. Wagner, J.D., School of Law
"Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research" published by Harvard University Press

Runners-Up

• Jacqueline Jones, Ph.D., Department of History
  “Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War” published by A. A. Knopf
• Peter F. MacNeilage, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
  “The Origin of Speech” published by Oxford University Press
• Tracie M. Matysik, Ph.D., Department of History
  ”Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930” published by Cornell University Press
• Karen L. Rascati, Ph.D., College of Pharmacy
  “Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics” published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

Grand Prize Winner

Denise Schmandt-Besserat, departments of Art and Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, colleges of Fine Arts and Liberal Arts
"When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story"
University of Texas Press

Runners-Up

• Carlton K. Erickson, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  "The Science of Addiction: From Neurobiology to Treatment"
  W. W. Norton & Co.
• James N. Loehlin, Department of English
  "Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard"
  Cambridge University Press
• John T. Markert, Department of Physics
  "Physics for Engineers and Scientists, 3rd edition, extended"
  W. W. Norton & Co.
• Kurt G. Weyland, Department of Government
  "Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America"
  Prin

Grand Prize Winner

Evan Carton, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts
“Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America”
Free Press

Runners-Up

• James W. Daniel and Leslie J. F. Vaaler, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences
  “Mathematical Interest Theory”
  Pearson Education, Inc.
• Mark D. Metzler, Departments of History and Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts
  “Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan”
  University of California Press
• Julia L. Mickenberg, Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
  “Learning from the Left: Children’s Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States”
  Oxford University Press
• Robert C. Solomon (1942-2007), Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
  “Dark Feelings, Grim Thoughts: Experience and Reflection in Camus and Sartre”
  Oxford University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Dr. L. Michael White, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts
“From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith”
Harper Collins

Runners-Up

• Dr. Eric V. Anslyn, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Natural Sciences,
  and Dr. Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
  “Modern Physical Organic Chemistry”
  University Science Books
• Dr. Neil Kamil, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts
  “Fortress of the Soul: Violence, Metaphysics, and Material Life in the Huguenots’ New World, 1517-1751”
  Johns Hopkins University Press
• Dr. Jeffrey L. Meikle, departments of American Studies and Art and Art History, colleges of Liberal Arts and Fine Arts
  “Design in the USA”
  Oxford University Press
• Dr. Paul B. Woodruff, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
  “First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea”
  Oxford University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Dr. Eric R. Pianka, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor in Zoology, Section of Integrative Biology
“Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity”
University of California Press

Runners-Up

• Dr. Ricardo Ainslie, Department of Educational Psychology
  “Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas”
  University of Texas Press
• Dr. Joanna Brooks, Department of English
  “American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures”
  Oxford University Press
• Dr. Toyin Falola, Department of History
  “A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir”
  University of Michigan Press
• Dr. Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Department of Art and Art History
  “The Northern Renaissance”
  Phaidon Press Ltd.

Grand Prize Winner

Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Forston Chair in European Art, Department of Art and Art History
“Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany”
Princeton University Press

Runners-Up

• Janet M. Davis, associate professor, Department of American Studies
  “The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top”
  The University of North Carolina Press
• Paul A. Jensen, professor, and Jonathan F. Bard, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  “Operations Research: Models and Methods”
  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Brian Leiter, professor, School of Law
  “Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Nietzsche on Morality”
  Routledge
• Kurt Weyland, professor, Department of Government
  “The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela”
  Princeton University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Philip Bobbitt, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair, School of Law
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
Alfred A. Knopf

Runners-Up

• Douglas Biow, Associate Professor, Department of French and Italian
  Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy
  The University of Chicago Press
• Nell Dale, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Sciences
  Co-author: John Lewis, Villanova University
  Computer Science Illuminated
  Jones and Bartlett Publishers
• John G. Ekerdt, Dick Rothwell Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering
  Co-author: James B. Rawlings, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals
  Nob Hill Publishing
• Lisa J. Green, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics
  African American English: A Linguistic Introduction
  Cambridge University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Mounira M. Charrad, Professor of Sociology
States and Women's Rights
University of California Press

Runners-Up

• Jon Kalb, Texas Memorial Museum
  Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
  Copernicus Books
• Glenn Alan Peers, Professor of Art & Art History
  Subtle Bodies
  University of California Press
• John J. Ruskiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric & Composition
  Keith Walters, Professor of Linguistics
  Everything's an Argument
  Bedford/St. Martin's
  Textbook
• Martha Ann Selby, Professor of Asian Studies
  Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
  Oxford University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Lucas Scot Powe, Jr., Professor of Law
The Warren Court and American Politics
Harvard University Press

Runners-Up

• Jonathan Brown, Professor of History
  Latin America: A Social History of the Colonial Period
  Harcourt College Publishers
• Robert Dudley, Professor of Integrative Biology, School of Biological Sciences
  The Biomechanics of Insect Flight: Form, Function, Evolution
  Princeton University Press
• Michael Starbird, Professor of Mathematics
  The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
  Key College Publishing Company
• John Wheeler, Professor of Astronomy
  Cosmic Catastrophes: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Adventures in Hyperspace
  Cambridge University Press

Grand Prize Winner

A. P. Martinich, Professor of Philosophy
Hobbes: A Biography
Cambridge University Press

Runners-Up

• David M. Buss, Professor of Psychology
  Evolutionary Psychology
  Allyn & Bacon
• Nell Dale, Professor of Computer Sciences
  C++ Plus Data Structures
  Jones and Bartlett Publishers
• Veit Erlmann, Professor of Music
  Music, Modernity, and the Global Imagination
  Oxford University Press
• Wm. Roger Louis, Professor of History
  The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Twentieth Century
  Oxford University Press

Grand Prize Winner

Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Professor of Art & Art History
Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works
Princeton University Press

Runners-Up

• Julius G. Getman, Professor of Law
  The Betrayal of Local 14
  Cornell University Press
• Kevin Kenny, Assistant Professor of History
  Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
  Oxford University Press
• David M. Rabban, Professor of Law
  Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years
  Cambridge University Press
• David V. Edwards, Professor of Government
  Alessandra Lippucci, Lecturer in Government
  Practicing American Politics: An Introduction to Government
  Worth Publishers
  Textbook Award

Grand Prize Winner

Neil F. Foley, Associate Professor of History
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
University of California Press

Runners-Up

• Desley Deacon, Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology
  Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life
  The University of Chicago Press
• Kenneth E. Foote, Associate Professor of Geography
  Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
  University of Texas Press
• Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Professor of Art, Art History, and Middle Eastern Studies
  How Writing Came About
  University of Texas Press
• Dee U. Silverthorn, Senior Lecturer in Zoology
  Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach
  Prentice Hall
  Textbook Award

Grand Prize Winner

Robert H. Kane, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy
The Significance of Free Will
Oxford University Press 1996

Runners-Up

• Judith G. Coffin, Assistant Professor, Department of History
  The Politics of Women's Work: The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915
  Princeton University Press 1996
• Karl Galinsky, Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics
  Augustan Culture
  Princeton University Press 1996
• Jeffrey L. Meikle, Professor of American Studies
  American Plastic: A Cultural History
  Princeton University Press 1996