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Journal Article Receives Award

November 2009: The article "Erotica and women in early modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine's Queer Poems" in Journal of the History Sexuality 17:2 received the 2009 Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Congratulations to the article author, Anna Klosowska, on this award!

In Memoriam: John Tveten

November 2009: We were greatly saddened to learn of the recent death of our author John Tveten. Mr. Tveten was a noted Texas naturalist; along with his wife Gloria, he wrote several books, including two UT Press titles. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the Tveten family.

Obituary on the Texas Master Naturalist Heartwood Chapter website

Book in New York Times

November 2009: The forthcoming book Where Heaven and Earth Meet was featured in a New York Times article on November 15.

Read the article (registration required).

Book on U.S./Mexico Border Receives Anthropology Award

Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts by Alejandro Lugo is a winner of the 2009 Association of Latina and Latino Anthropologists Book Award. Congratulations to Professor Lugo!

Author Receives Native Plant Society Award

Matt Warnock Turner has received the Carroll Abbott Memorial Award from the Native Plant Society of Texas for his book Remarkable Texas Plants. Congratulations to the author on this honor!

Mexican Novel Featured on NPR's "You Must Read This"

October 2009: Juan Rulfo's novel, The Burning Plain, was recommended by writer Oscar Casares on NPR's "You Must Read This". The segment aired on All Things Considered on October 15. Casares also mentions Rulfo's Pedro Páramo.

Listen to the segment on NPR.

In Memoriam: William Wayne Justice

October 2009: We were saddened to learn of the death of William Wayne Justice. The Press published Frank Kemerer's biography of Judge Justice, William Wayne Justice.

Obituary in the New York Times
Obituary in the Austin American-Statesman

Book Receives Gloria Anzaldua Award

October 2009: Native Speakers, by María Eugenia Cotera, received the National Women's Studies Association' Gloria Anzaldua book prize for 2009. Congratulations to Professor Cotera!

Author Interviewed in Newsweek

October 2009: William K. Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, was interviewed in Newsweek about regulation and banking.

Read the interview.

Book Excerpted in Huffington Post

September 2009: The Huffington Post recently printed an excerpt from Robert Auerbach's Deception and Abuse at the Fed. Read the excerpt.

Other Major Awards for UT Press Authors

Teatro Chicana edited by Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez, and Felicitas Nuñez
Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies
Popular and American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA)

Cinema Houston by David Welling
2009 Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award
Society of Architectural Historians

Black Space by Adlifu Nama
Peter C. Rollins Book Award
Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

The Projects by James Diego Vigil
Co-Winner, Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists Best Book Prize

2008 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association:

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Books, 2009:

Espiritu Santo de Zuniga by Tamra Lynn Walter
2009 Citation
San Antonio Conservation Society

House of Plenty by Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston
2009 Citation
San Antonio Conservation Society

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