Winners of the Hamilton Book Awards announced

AUSTIN, Texas— Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner won the $10,000 grand prize at the Hamilton Book Awards for their book, “Bending Science:  How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research" on Oct. 28 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin.

 McGarity is the Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law, and Wagner, is the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor in Law at The University of Texas at Austin. Their book was published by Harvard University Press.

 The awards are the highest honor of literary achievement given to published authors at The University of Texas at Austin. They are sponsored by the University Co-operative Society.

 Michael Granof, chairperson of the Co-operative Society, hosted the event and announced the winners. Victoria Rodriguez, vice provost and dean of Graduate Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, presented the awards.

 Four faculty members received $3,000 prizes for their books. They were:  

• Jacqueline Jones, the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas and Mastin Gentry White Professor in Southern History, “Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War,” (A. A. Knopf, 2008).
• Peter MacNeilage, professor of psychology, “The Origin of Speech,” (Oxford University Press, 2008).

• Tracie Matysik, associate professor of history, “Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930” (Cornell University Press, 2009).     

• Karen Rascati, the Stewart Turley/Eckerd Corporation Centennial Endowed Professor in Pharmacy, “Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics” (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2008).

 The University Co-op is a not-for-profit corporation owned by the students, faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin.  Since the year 2000, the University Co-op has given more than $28 million in gifts and rebates.

For more information, contact: Jessica Sinn, public affairs specialist, College of Liberal Arts, 512-471-2404; Hulan Swain, University Co-op, 512-322-7071.