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Book Receives Theatre Award

August 2009: Nine Plays by José Cruz González, edited by Coleman A. Jennings, received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education. Congratulations to Professor Jennings!

Book Reviewed in The Wall Street Journal

Phillip Naylor's book North Africa was reviewed in the August 11 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Read the review.

Author Interviewed on Latino USA

Bárbara Renaud González discussed her new book Golondrina, why did you leave me? on the 31 July 2009 edition of NPR's Latino USA.

Listen to the show. (Renaud González speaks in the second segment.)

In Memoriam: Lowell H. Lebermann, Jr.

"I strongly believe that a high quality, well-funded university press is integral to the mission, outreach and reputation of a great university."—Lowell H. Lebermann, Jr.

Lowell H. Lebermann Jr., who has been an active member of the Press's Advisory Council since he joined in 1999, died on Thursday, July 9, while in Aspen. During the ten years of his service to the Press, he helped lead two fundraising campaigns, most recently as co-chair of the Press's current Campaign Steering Committee. As a member and chair of the Council's Nominating Committee, Lebermann recruited numerous individuals to the Press's Council. In addition, Lebermann contributed to the publication of various UT Press books, including Land Arts of the American West and The Adventures of a Cello.

Always a gracious host, Lebermann generously opened up his home for UT Press events and meetings. His caring, intelligent, and dynamic spirit will be sorely missed by the Press's Council and staff. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Three Books Featured in Food Magazine

Three University of Texas Press books were featured in a list of the best of Texas food writing in Saveur issue #121: Texas Monthly on... Food, Texas BBQ, and Cooking Texas Style.

The complete list in Saveur

Photographer Receives Amnesty International Media Award

Eugene Richards received the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for "No One Much Cares", an excerpt from his book A Procession of Them featured in Newsweek. Congratulations to Mr. Richards on this honor!

More on Eugene Richards
More on the awards

2009-2010 UT Press Fellow Announced

Congratulations to Sebastian Langdell, the 2009-2010 UT Press Fellow! He will work in our Rights and Permissions department, as well as other departments around the Press.

Author Appears on Bloomberg TV

April 2009: Robert Auerbach, author of Deception and Abuse at the Fed, recently appeared on Bloomberg Financial Network. Watch his interview on YouTube.

Author Appears on Bill Moyers Journal

April 2009: William Black, author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, recently appeared on Bill Moyers Journal. View part of the show.

In Memoriam: Franklin Rosemont

April 2009: We were shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Franklin Rosemont. Dr. Rosemont, long active in the Surrealist movement, was the editor of the Press's Surrealist Revolution series. The Press extends our sympathies to his family and colleagues.

In Memoriam: Rhoda Halperin

April 2009: We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of author Rhoda Halperin. Professor Halperin published several books with the University of Texas Press, the most recent of which was Whose School Is It?. Our deepest sympathies go out to her family and colleagues.

Book Receives Architectural History Award

April 2009: Cinema Houston, by David Welling, received the 2009 Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Congratulations to the author!

Book Receives Popular Culture Award

March 2009: Black Space, by Adlifu Nama, received the Peter C. Rollins Book Award from the Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. The award is given annually to the best new publication on popular culture or American culture. The Press congratulates Professor Nama on this award!

Book Receives Anthropology Award

The Projects by James Diego Vigil was a co-winner of the 2008 Association of Latino and Latina Anthropologists prize for best book on Latino/a anthropology. Congratulations to Professor Vigil!

Three UTP Books Receive Book Award

Feburary 2009: Three UTP Books received a 2008 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association:

• Border Citizens, by Eric V. Meeks
• Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts by Alejandro Lugo
• Violence and Activism at the Border by Kathleen Staudt

Keith Carter to Receive 2009 Texas Medal of Arts

January 2009: Photographer Keith Carter won the 2009 Texas Medal of Arts award for Visual Arts. The awards are given by the Texas Cultural Trust and will be formally presented at a ceremony in Austin on April 7.

The Press is privileged to have published three books of Carter's photography: Keith Carter Photographs, Ezekiel's Horse, and A Certain Alchemy.

Three Choice Titles

January 2009: Three University of Texas Press books have been named as Outstanding Academic Titles in the January 2009 issue of Choice Magazine:

• Leopoldo Mendez: Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print by Deborah Caplow
• Life After Welfare: Reform and the Persistence of Poverty by Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder
• Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema by Angela Dalle Vacche

Congratulations to the authors!

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

We were greatly saddened to learn of the death of Elizabeth Warnock Fernea. Professor Fernea was a noted scholar on women and families in the Middle East. The Press published several of her books, most recently Remembering Childhood in the Middle East.

Two Books to Receive San Antonio Conservation Society Award

The San Antonio Conservation Society is giving a 2009 Citation to two of our books: Espiritu Santo de Zuniga: A Frontier Mission in South Texas by Tamra Lynn Walter, and House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias, by Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston. Congratulations to these authors!

Author Receives University Award

October 2008: Denise Schmandt-Besserat received the University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Award for best book published by a University of Texas faculty or staff member for her book When Writing Met Art. The Press is honored to have been able to publish this book, and we congratulate Professor Schmandt-Besserat on her award.

Book Receives Western Writing Award

September 2008: What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest by Susan Witting Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, and Paula Stallings Yost has been selected as the 2008 Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. The WILLA awards are sponsored by Women Writing the West.

2008-2009 UT Press Fellowship Recipients Announced

Congratulations to Christopher Chung and Susanna Reynolds Hill, the 2008-2009 UT Press Fellows.

Book on Yemen Wins Award

August 2008: A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen, by Shelagh Weir, has won the British-Kuwait Friendship Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, coordinated by BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies).

Biography of Negro League Baseball Player Wins Award

July 2008: Willie Wells: 'El Diablo' of the Negro Leagues won the Robert Peterson Recognition Award at the 11th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference held in Willowbrooke, IL, July 26-28, 2008.

Photography Book Wins Award

June 2008: A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove by Bill Wittliff has received the Will Rogers Medallion Award. The award is presented to outstanding books of or about Western U.S. literature.

UTP Books on Summer Reading List

May 2008: Several University of Texas Press books are listed on the Humanities Texas Summer Reading List. Listed books include the following:

Arreola, Tejano South Texas
Cross, Around the World with LBJ
Kirkland and Newcomb, The Rock Art of Texas Indians
Oliphant, Texan Jazz (out of print, but available at many Texas libraries)
Shrake, Land of the Permanent Wave
Shrake, Blessed McGill (out of print, but available at many Texas libraries)
Tejeda and Valdez, ¡Conjunto! (distributed for the UT Center for Mexican American Studies)

Book Mentioned in Barron's

April 2008: Robert Auerbach's new book, Deception and Abuse at the Fed, was recently mentioned in Barron's in a discussion of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's doctoral dissertation. In a follow-up article, Barron's tracks down the elusive disseration.

Auerbach comments: "One correction to the Barrons' story should be noted. I do not say in my book, as Barrons reports, that 'Greenspan's Ph.D. is, de facto, an honorary degree.' In my book I report being unable to obtain Greenspan's dissertation and I show New York University Provost's letter to me (8/12/05) that replies to my request for a copy. Provost David W. McLaughlin wrote that 'Greenspan's dissertation is not in the Bobst Library' because 'it was the practice of the business school during the 1970's not to deposit dissertations with the library.'"

Photography Book Featured in New York Times

April 2008: It's a good week for UT Press books in New York. Robb Kendrick's Still is featured in the Life and Arts section of the April 20th edition of the New York Times. Read the NYT article (may require registration).

Novel Featured in New York Times Book Review

April 2008: A review of Dermot Bolger's The Journey Home appears on the front page of the April 20th edition of the New York Times Book Review. Read the NYT article (may require registration).

In Memoriam: Anthony C. Hilfer

April 2008: The Press was greatly sorry to learn that Anthony C. Hilfer, former coeditor of Texas Studies in Literature and Language and author of UT Press books The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre, died in an automobile accident on April 11. Our sympathies go out to his family and colleagues.

Obituary in the Austin American-Statesman

In Memoriam: Raúl Salinas

February 2008: We were saddened to learn of the recent death of Chicano poet and activist Raúl Salinas. The Press published a collection of Salinas's journalism and correspondence, raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine.

Article on Salinas in the Austin-American Statesman.

Author Interviewed on NPR

February 2008: Robb Kendrick, author of Still, was interviewed on NPR's Day to Day. Read or listen to the story on NPR's website.

Authors' Research Featured on UT Website

January 2008: UT-Austin's homepage recently featured an article on Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder's research on post-welfare families in Texas. The Press recently published their book, Life After Welfare.

Four Choice Titles

January 2008: Four University of Texas Press books have been named as Outstanding Academic Titles in the January 2008 issue of Choice Magazine:

• Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity by Cynthia J. Becker
• "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear by Tim Jon Semmerling
• Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson
• Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio

Congratulations to the authors!

Author Interview on National Geographic Radio

January 2008: Robb Kendrick was recently interviewed on National Geographic Radio. The Press will publish his book Still in February 2008. Listen to the interview in MP3 format at National Geographic's site.

In Memoriam: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski

January 2008: We were very sorry to learn of the December 2007 death of classicist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski. Dr. Jashemski was a scholar of the archaeology of Pompeii and other sites, focusing particularly on gardens and horticulture. The Press was privileged to publish her book A Pompeiian Herbal.

Photographer Featured in National Geographic

November 2007: The December 2007 issue of National Geographic features the photography of Robb Kendrick in the story 21st-Century Cowboys. The Press will publish a book of Kendrick's cowboy photographs, Still, in February 2008.

Feature Story on La Llorona Research

October 2007: The research of Domino Renee Perez was the subject of a feature article on the University of Texas at Austin's website. The Press will publish Professor Perez's book, There Was a Woman, in the summer of 2008.

Book Receives Urban Communication Award

October 2007: Watching the Traffic Go By, by Paul Fotsch, received the 2007 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Publication Award from the Urban Communication Foundation.

Book Recognized by Arab American National Museum

September 2007: "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear, by Tim Jon Semmerling, received an Honorable Mention in the 2006 Arab American National Museum Book Awards. More on the award winners.

Mexican Artist Featured on PBS Show

September 2007: The PBS American Masters series recently profiled Mexican mural artist José Clemente Orozco, known for his expressionist paintings and drawings. The Press published a collection of Orozco's prints, José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work.

In Memoriam: Winfred P. Lehmann

August 2007: We were saddened to learn of the 1 August death of linguistics scholar Winfred P. Lehmann. Professor Lehmann published a number of books with the Press, including Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China (1975) and Syntactic Typology (1978).
List of Professor Lehmann's professional achievements

In Memoriam: Lady Bird Johnson

July 2007: The University of Texas Press joins the people of Texas and the nation in mourning the passing of Lady Bird Johnson and in celebrating her life and work. We honor her commitment to preserving the beauty of the natural world both in her home state and throughout the nation.

In October, the Press will reissue Mrs. Johnson's White House Diary, which chronicles her experiences as First Lady. We are also pleased to partner with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in publishing Texas Wildflowers: A Field Guide.

Excerpt from the diary in the New York Times
Excerpt from the diary in the Austin American Statesman

Restavec Author on Oprah

June 2007: Author Jean-Robert Cadet appeared on the 27 June broadcast of the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about his life as a restavec, a child slave in Haiti. The Press published Cadet's autobiography, Restavec.

In Memoriam: John S. Brushwood

May 2007: We were very sorry to learn of the 27 May death of John S. Brushwood, a noted scholar and translator of Latin American literature. He published several books and translations with the Press, including Mexico in Its Novel, The Spanish American Novel, and most recently a translation of two novellas by Ignacio Solares, Lost in the City, co-translated with Carolyn Brushwood. The Press extends our sympathy to his family and colleagues.

In Memoriam: Bernie Gordon

May 2007: The Press was saddened to learn of the May 11 death of our author Bernie Gordon. A screenwriter who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era, Gordon nonetheless managed to continue his career overseas. The Press published two of his books, Hollywood Exile and The Gordon File. Obituary in the Los Angeles Times

Polonsky Prize Awarded to Book on Dance

May 2007: Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture, by Yosef Garfinkel, recently received the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.

White Metropolis Receives Fehrenbach Award

May 2007: White Metropolis, by Michael Phillips, recently received the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. The award is given to scholarly works based on original research that add to the knowledge of Texas history.

Honorable Mention, Orion Book Award

May 2007: Inferno, by Charles Bowden with photos by Michael Berman, received an honorable mention for the Orion Book Award. More on the award.

ASEH Goes Bananas over Book

March 2007: The American Society for Environmental History recently awarded the George Perkins Marsh Award for Best Book in Environmental History to John Soluri's Banana Cultures, a history of banana agriculture in Honduras and the banana consumer market in the United States.