Research Recognition
Hamilton Book Author Awards Program: 1998 Awards
Grand Prize Winner
- Neil F. Foley, Associate Professor of History
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
University of California Press
Runners-Up
- Desley Deacon, Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology
Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life
The University of Chicago Press
- Kenneth E. Foote, Associate Professor of Geography
Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
University of Texas Press
- Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Professor of Art, Art History, and Middle Eastern Studies
How Writing Came About
University of Texas Press
- Dee U. Silverthorn, Senior Lecturer in Zoology
Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach
Prentice Hall
Textbook Award
About the Books
The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
by Neil F. Foley
Professor Foley's book analyzes the impact of the three cultures--Mexican, Southern, and Western--overlapping in Central Texas, on the cotton culture spanning the period from the Civil War to the early 1940s. Examination in this work of the socioeconomic interaction of the three ethnic groups--Mexican, black, and poor white--lends a new dimension not generally voiced in more traditional discussions of American race relations. Dr. Foley is an Associate Professor of History.
Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life
by Desley Deacon
Desley Deacon, Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology, has crafted a vividly descriptive biography of Elsie Clews Parsons, an early feminist and anthropologist. The work presents a compelling picture of a woman of unconventional thought trapped in a rigidly conventional society. She challenged the social and sexual mores of New York's upper-class elite and throughout her professional and private life attempted to "educate the public to accept and welcome sexual and social diversity." (from a review by The University of Chicago Press)
Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
by Kenneth E. Foote
Dr. Foote, Associate Professor of Geography, has drawn on his extensive study and travel to memorial sites to create a coherent work exploring the ways in which Americans have marked and reacted to sites of violence throughout the history of the Nation. He describes four "ways that Americans usually react to scenes of tragedy"--a public memorial, a simple marker, a return to normal use, or left unmarked. "These differing reactions to sites of violence offer an important new perspective to the debate over violence in American society." (from a review by the University of Texas Press)
How Writing Came About
by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Professor of Art, Art History, and Middle Eastern Studies, has continued to present material supporting her groundbreaking theory that the oldest known system of writing derived from a counting device. Her first two volumes explore that theory and this new work draws on them to present her views to a wider audience. Reviews of her research indicate that her "discovery and its ramifications...are crucial to understanding the development of civilization...." (from a review by the Times Literary Supplement)
Human Physiology: An Integrated Approach
by Dee U. Silverthorn
Winner of the Textbook Award, Dr. Silverthorn, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, has prepared this new text based on her own interactive, problem-centered teaching experiences. "The integration of body systems," Dr. Silverthorn writes, "is a special focus of physiology today.... Creating an integrated view of physiology that links together the different systems is one of the most interesting and most challenging aspects of physiology." (from a review by Prentice Hall)
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