Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. “I think that one should take it as one direction that poetry can go, there …
Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church has been awarded the 2009 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society of Humanistic Anthropology (SHA). A Problem …
UPDATE: Transcendental Studies is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. Transcendental Studies is a 2009 National Book Award finalist in poetry. This compelling selection of recent work by …
The forthcoming UC Press poetry volume Forest of Eyes, a selection of poems by one of Japan’s most important modern poets, Tada Chimako, translated by Jeffrey Angles, was recently awarded the 2009 …
As announced last week, University of California Press author Harryette Mullen received the 2009 Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, one of the most distinguished awards in poetry in the …
UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski has devoted his career to studying the very thing he once tried to escape—poverty. Born to indigenous and mestizo migrant laborers in Sonoro, Mexico, Sánchez-Jankowski moved …
Last week Bill Ivey won the prestigious NAMM “Music for Life” award, the association’s highest honor. Ivey, part of the Obama/Biden transition team, former head of the NEA, of Vanderbilt University’s Curb …
Congratulations to historians and UC Press authors Peter Brown and Romila Thapar, who are joint winners of the 2008 Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Humanity. The prize of …