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Awards in Humanities

Awards and honourable mentions since 2014 include:

Francis O'Gorman, The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin, 9781107054899, Literature, Winner, 2016 Ruskin Society Book Prize

Arnold Lewis Glass, Cognition, 9781107088313, Psychology, Honourable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award for Textbook/Best in Social Sciences

Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, David Lurie, The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature, 9781107029033, Literature, Honourable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences

Bruce R. Smith, Katherine Rowe, Ton Hoenselaars, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Aimara da Cunha Resende, The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 9781107057258, Literature, Winner, 2017 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences

Edward Klorman, Mozart's Music of Friends, Social Interplay in the Chamber Works, 9781107474666, Music, Winner, 2017 PROSE Award for Music and the Performing Arts

Bruce R. Smith, Katherine Rowe, Ton Hoenselaars, Akiko Kusunoki, Andrew Murphy, Aimara da Cunha Resende, The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 9781107057258, Literature, Winner, 2017 PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works

Paul Franssen, Shakespeare's Literaty Lives, The Author as Character in Fiction and Film, 9781107125612, Literature, Honourable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award for Literature

Eleanor Dickey, Learning Latin the Ancient Way, Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World, 9781107093607, Classics, Honourable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award for Classics

Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium, Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography, 9780521851596, Archaeology, Winner, 2016 ICMA Book Prize, International Center of Medieval Art

Annmarie Drury, Translation as Transformation in Victorian Poetry, 9781107079243, Literature, Winner, 2016 Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies Association

Coleman Hutchison, A History of American Civil War Literature, 9781107109728, Literature, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jane Rickard, Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England,Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James, 9781107120662,Literature, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Bruce R. Smith, Katherine Rowe, Ton Hoenselaars, Akiko Krunoki, Andrew Murphy, Aimara da Cunha Resende, The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, 9781107057258, Literature, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Thomas E. Jenkins, Antiquity Now, The Classical World in the Contemporary American Imagination, 9780521196260, Classics, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Cody Morris, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, 9781107109834, Literature, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Guy Hedreen, The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece, Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity, 9781107118256, Classics, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Suzanne Preston Blier, Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba, Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300, 9781107021662, Archaeology, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Jon Mandle, David A. Reidy, The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon, 9780521192941, Philosophy, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Susan J. Wolfson, Reading John Keats, 9780521513418, Literature, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Roy W. Perrett,An Introduction to Indian Philosopy, 9780521853569, Philosophy, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Ruth Tatlow, Bach's Numbers, Compositional Proportion and Significance, 9781107088603, Music, Winner, 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Ernest Hemingway, Edited by Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier, Robert W. Trogdon, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 9780521897358, American literature, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Literature    

Edited by Scott Herring, The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature, 9781107046498, American literature, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015                    

Gavin Jones, Failure and the American Writer, A Literary History, 9781107056671, American literature, Honourable Mention, 2015 PROSE Award for Literature        

Maxim Bolt, Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms, The Roots of Impermanence, 9781107111226, Anthropology, Winner of the 2016,  BBC Thinking Allowed/British Sociological Association Ethnography Award              

David F. Lancy, The Anthropology of Childhood, Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings, 9781107072664, Anthropology, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015            

Edited by John Robb , Oliver J. T. Harris, The Body in History, Europe from the Palaeolithic to the Future, 9780521124119, Archaeology, Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences, Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Anthropology

Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium, Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography, 9780521851596, Archaeology, Winner of the 2016 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League       

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre, Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, 9781107577152, Archaeology, Winner of the 2015 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of America             

Gilbert J. Gorski , James E. Packer, The Roman Forum, A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide, 9780521192446, Archaeology, Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities, Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History

Adam Herring, Art and Vision in the Inca Empire, Andeans and Europeans at Cajamarca, 9781107094369, Archaeology, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism 

Suzanne Preston Blier, Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba, Ife History, Power, and Identity, c.1300, 9781107021662, Archaeology, Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism 

Edited by A. Bernard Knapp , Peter van Dommelen, The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, 9780521766883, Archaeology, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference in the Humanities and Social Sciences        

J. Cameron Monroe, The Precolonial State in West Africa, Building Power in Dahomey, 9781107040182, Archaeology, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015             

Nicholas Postgate, Bronze Age Bureaucracy, Writing and the Practice of Government in Assyria, 9781107043756, Archaeology, Winner of the 2014 Frank Cross Moore Award, American Schools of Oriental Research     

Sandy Isenstadt, The Modern American House, Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity, 9781107675063, Art, Winner of the 2009 Spiro Kostof Award             

Jackie Elliott, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales, 9781316613498, Classical studies, Co-Winner, 2015 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies 

Sandra R. Joshel, Lauren Hackworth Petersen, The Material Life of Roman Slaves, 9780521139571, Classical studie, Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History

Edited by Tod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones, The Pantheon From Antiquity to the Present, 9780521809320, Classical studies Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Classics               

Julia Hillner, Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity, 9780521517515, Classical studies, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Archaeology and Ancient History              

Victoria Rimell, The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics, Empire's Inward Turn, 9781107079267, Classical studies, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Classics             

Judith M. Barringer, The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, 9780521171809, Classical studies, Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Textbook, Humanities            

Judith M. Barringer, The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece, 9781107001237, Classical studies, Winner, 2016 PROSE Award for Textbook, Humanities            

Sandra R. Joshel, Lauren Hackworth Petersen, The Material Life of Roman Slaves, 9780521191647, Classical studies, Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History

Translated by Duane W. Roller, The Geography of Strabo, An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes, 9781107038257, Classical studies, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015      

Seth Schwartz, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad , 9781107041271, Classical studies, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015            

Seth Schwartz, The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, 9781107669291, Classical studies, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015            

Nicholas Grene Home on the Stage, Domestic Spaces in Modern Drama, 9781107078093, Drama and theatre, Shortlisted for the 2014 Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize          

Gay Gibson Cima, Performing Anti-Slavery, Activist Women on Antebellum Stages, 9781107060890, Drama and theatre, Honourable Mention, 2015 Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society for Theatre Research       

Jarad Zimbler, J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style, 9781107624597, English literature, Shortlisted for the 2016 University English Book Prize          

Ross G. Forman, China and the Victorian Imagination, Empires Entwined, 9781316600993, English literature, Co-winner of the 2013 Sonya Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association          

David Scott Wilson-Okamura, Spenser's International Style, 9781107559431, English literature, Winner (in Hardback) of the 2015 Isabel MacCaffrey Award, International Spenser Society  

Orianne Smith, Romantic Women Writers, Revolution, and Prophecy, Rebellious Daughters, 1786–1826, 9781107566736, English literature, Winner (in Hardback) of the 2015 First Book Award, British Association for Romantic Studies               

Edited by Devoney Looser, The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period, 9781107602557, English literature, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015    

Edited by Kevin R. McNamara, The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature, 9781107028036, English literature, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015             

Daniel Wakelin, Scribal Correction and Literary Craft, English Manuscripts 1375–1510, 9781107076228, English literature, Co-Winner of the 2015 George A. and Jean S. DeLong Book History Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)       

Fiona Ritchie, Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century, 9781107046306, English literature, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015, Shortlisted for the 2014 Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize

Roderick Beaton, Byron's War, Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution, 9781107470385, English literature, Winner of the 2014 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League 

Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790–1829, 9781107449169, English literature, Winner (in Hardback) of the 2012 Donald J. Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies   

Jarad Zimbler, J. M. Coetzee and the Politics of Style, 9781107046252, English literature, Shortlisted for the 2016 University English Book Prize          

Anna Snaith, Modernist Voyages, Colonial Women Writers in London, 1890–1945, 9780521515450, English literature, Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize         

Edited by Andrew Gurr, Farah Karim-Cooper, Moving Shakespeare Indoors, Performance and Repertoire in the Jacobean Playhouse, 9781107040632, English literature, Shortlisted for the 2014 Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize               

Lawrence Warner, The Myth of Piers Plowman, Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive, 9781107043633, English literature, Winner, 2016 Beatrice White Prize, English Association               

Teresa Michals, Books for Children, Books for Adults, Age and the Novel from Defoe to James, 9781107048546, English literature, Honor Book for the 2016 Book Award, Children's Literature Association         

Samuel Beckett, Edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn, Lois More Overbeck, The Letters of Samuel Beckett,9780521867955, European and world literature, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015        

Rebecca Herrissone, Musical Creativity in Restoration England, 9781107014343, Music, Winner of the 2015 Diana McVeagh Prize

Christopher Page, The Guitar in Tudor England, A Social and Musical History, 9781107108363, Music, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Music and the Performing Arts  

Simon P. Keefe, Mozart's Requiem, Reception, Work, Completion, 9781107532953, Music, Winner (in Hardback) of the 2013 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award, Mozart Society of America

Ralph P. Locke, Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart, 9781107012370, Music, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Music and the Performing Arts             

Edited by Beate Kutschke, Barley Norton, Music and Protest in 1968, 9781107504318, Music, Winner (in Hardback) of the 2014 American Musicological Society Ruth A. Solie Award          

Jack Boss, Schoenberg's Twelve-Tone Music, Symmetry and the Musical Idea, 9781107046863, Music, Winner of the 2015 Wallace Berry Award, Society for Music Theory               

Yossi Maurey, Medieval Music, Legend, and the Cult of St Martin, The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint, 9781107060951, Music, Winner, First Prize, 2015 Polonsky Prizes, Hebrew University of Jerusalem        

Simon Zagorski-Thomas, The Musicology of Record Production, 9781107075641, Music, Winner, 2015 Book Prize, International Association for the Study of Popular Music            

Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin, The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia, 9780521519625, Music, A Classical Music Editor's Choice Top Ten Book of 2014     

Elliott Sober, Ockham's Razors, A User's Manual, 9781107068490, Philosophy, Honourable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award for Philosophy        

Edited by Robert Audi, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 9781107015050                , Philosophy, A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2015      

Michael Friedman, Kant's Construction of Nature, A Reading of the  Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science , 9781107515451, Philosophy, Winner, in Hardback, of the 2015 Fernando Gil International Prize in Philosophy of Science               

David Luban, Torture, Power, and Law, 9781107656291, Philosophy, Winner, 2015 PROSE Award for Philosophy               

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