Awarded in 2009 for Books Published in 2008

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University invites publishers to submit scholarly monographs for its annual Glasscock Humanities Book Prize, which will be awarded to an interdisciplinary monograph in humanities studies published in 2008.  

To be considered, the book must be written in English and bear a copyright date of 2008.  It must make an outstanding contribution to the humanities that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries.  A book must be nominated by its publisher, and each publisher may nominate only one book.  A cash prize of $1000 will be presented to the winning author, who will be invited to Texas A&M University to deliver a public address.

To nominate a book, please send three (3) copies of the book and a letter of nomination to:

Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
Texas A&M University
4214 TAMU
College Station , TX 77843-4214
Attn: Emily Hoeflinger

Entries must be postmarked by 1 May 2009.  Multiple submissions or submissions not published in 2008 will not be returned. For further information e-mail Donnalee Dox.

Employees of Texas A&M University are not eligible for nomination.

Previous book prizes were awarded to:

Maggie Nelson

• Maggie Nelson, Women, the New York School, and Other Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
• Lois Parkinson Zamora, The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction (University of Chicago Press, 2006)
• Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
• Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon (Oxford University Press, 2004)
• Jay Clayton, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Debbie Lee, Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
• Keith Wailoo, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
• Daniel Albright, Untwisting the Serpent:  Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts (University of Chicago Press, 2000)
• Mary Baine Campbell, Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1999)
• Dana D. Nelson, National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men (Duke University Press, 1998)

Employees of Texas A&M University are not eligible for nomination.