Award Winning Books

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Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
We are pleased to announce that Neena Mahadev's KARMA AND GRACE is the Winner, 2024 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Through vivid ethnography and keen observations of media events, this book illuminates disputes over religious freedom and pluralism amid the rise of charismatic Christianity in Sri Lanka.
2024 Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association
We are pleased to announce that Hannah Freed-Thall's MODERMISM AT THE BEACH is the Winner of the 2024 Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association. #AwardWinner #Modernism #Literature
Shortlisted, 2024 MSA Prize for a First Book, Modernist Studies Association
We are pleased to announce that Imani D. Owens's TURN THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN is Shortlisted for the 2024 First Book Prize from the Modernist Studies Association.
Tenth annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award
Columbia University Press, in conjunction with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce that RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS by Isabel Huacuja Alonso is the winner of the tenth annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award. David J. Helfand’s THE UNIVERSAL TIMEKEEPERS is runner-up for the award. #BookAward #DistinguishedBookAward #ReadMore #AwardWinner
Love, Joe
Now available! LOVE, JOE presents a selection of Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life. They allow readers to witness an extraordinarily fertile moment in New York’s history, when literary and visual arts intersected with happenings, proto-punk and psychedelic rock concerts, and experimental music and dance performances.
Claudia Leeb on Contesting the Far Right
"Psychoanalytic theory helps explain the contradiction that people discontented with the status quo turn to far-right parties and movements that further cement capitalism’s adverse effects, which are growing economic insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation."—Claudia Leeb, author of CONTESTING THE FAR RIGHT #InformYourVote #Election2024 #FarRightPolitics #FarRight2024 #FarRightMovement
The War on Mothers
"The war on abortion is a war on mothers. It is a war that implicates not only matters of birth and of natality, but also the very terms and conditions of our collective existence. It is a war on the very means of production and reproduction (and means of destruction, too,) of our collective existence."—Gil Anidjar, author of ON THE SOVEREIGNTY OF MOTHERS. Read more about the way on mothers in this essay. #InformYourVote #Mothers #Motherhood #Abortion #WomensRights #Election2024 #Decision2024
Melissa Deckman on The Politics of Gen Z
"Combined with the explosion of social media—another cultural milestone—many progressive Gen Z women had the drive and ability to organize effectively as political leaders and activists in ways that previous generations of women could not."—Melissa Deckman. Read more about the POLITCS OF GEN Z in this Q&A. #GenZ #GenZPolitics#GenZForChange #GenZActivism #GenZVotes #YouthVote #GenZVoter
Support the Black Lives in the Diaspora book series
This #ColumbiaGivingDay, support the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future series. This book series series focuses on Black lives in a global diasporic context. This collaboration represents the first step in a larger partnership between the two universities to publish more robustly in Black studies and to recruit and support a cohort of editorial fellows to provide an entryway for recent HBCU graduates into the publishing industry. #ScholarshipsMatte #AcademicPublishing
Support the First-Book Fund
This Columbia Giving Day, support the First-Book Fund. The First-Book Fund at Columbia University Press underwrites first books by the most talented emerging scholars. First publications are critical to our mission of publishing groundbreaking scholarly works and our commitment to sharing knowledge. #ColumbiaGivingDay #ScholarshipsMatte #AcademicPublishing #SupportAcademicPublishing #PublishKnowledge #ScholarlyBooks #AcademicResearch
Join the Publisher's Circle
Become a Publisher's Circle member! The Annual Fund at Columbia University Press provides unrestricted support to advance knowledge about our world through essential writing and research focusing on the global, the urban, and the contemporary. For 130 years, our widely reviewed and award-winning books have brought new ideas and foundational understanding to students, academics across different disciplines, policy makers, and general readers around the world. #ColumbiaGivingDay
Andrew Payne on War on the Ballot
"If voters care less about an issue, presidents won’t need to worry so much about the political risks of how they handle it."—Andrew Payne. Read more about how electoral pressures shape U.S. foreign policy in this Q&A. @Andy_J_Payne #InformYourVote #Election2024 #USForeignPolicy
How to Depolarize Your Home, Workplace, and Community
The past decade has seen deep political and social divides in our society—specifically related to party politics and presidential elections. In this blog post, conflict resolution expert and author of THE WAY OUT Peter T. Coleman offers eight steps to depolarize your home, workplace, and community. #InformYourVote #Polarization #USPolitics #MentalHealth #ConflictResolution
Winner of the 2024 W.W. Howells Book Award
We are pleased to announce that Joseph L. Graves Jr and Alan H. Goodman's RACISM, NOT RACE is the Winner of the 2024 W.W. Howells Book Award from the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association.
Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2024
We are pleased to announce the Columbia University Press books featured in this carousel have been awarded a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2024. Choice Outstanding Academic Titles (OATs) are awarded to outstanding works for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections. #ReadUP #AwardWinningBooks