Mary Ellen Mark
Selects Winner of
First Book Prize in Photography

The Winner of the 2009 Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography has been selected by Mary Ellen Mark. Jennette Williams's black-and-white images of women bathers has been selected to receive the biennial award and her book The Bathers will be published in November 2009 by Duke University Press.

A selection of images from the book is available online.

For more information about the Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, please visit the CDS website.

positions Receives the 2008 CELJ Award for Best Special Issue

“War Capital Trauma,” a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique, was unanimously selected as the winner of the 2008 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for Best Special Issue.

For more information, please download the press release (pdf).

Downloads Now Available for Two Duke University Press Titles

The Duke University Press edition of Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins is now available as a downloadable PDF. This expanded edition includes a foreword by Davis Guggenheim and an introduction by Cory Doctorow.

Christopher M. Kelty's Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software is generating lots of online buzz. On his own site, Kelty is trying a couple of experiments. First, the book is available free online. Readers can either download a PDF or they can read and interact with the book online, commenting on individual paragraphs.

Kelty also has a separate site where readers can modulate his work and add their own. Kelty announced his book on the anthropology blog Savage Minds, and many bloggers have linked to that post. Several bloggers have started an online book club to discuss Two Bits.

And the mainstream media is starting to catch on, too. The New Yorker praised the book's cover in its books blog, The Book Bench.


Duke University Press salutes our recent award-winning books

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico by John J. Dwyer has been awarded the 2008-2009 Alfred B. Thomas Book Prize, presented by the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS).

American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism by Julian Go is the winner of the 2009 Mary Douglas Prize, presented by the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.

Krista Thompson, author of an Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, has been awarded the 2009 David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Named after the renowned African American artist and art scholar, the Driskell Prize recognizes a scholar or artist in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.

The International Convention of Asia Scholars has released its shortlist of nominees for the annual book awards and two Duke titles are on the shortlist in the Social Sciences category: Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang.

Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E. B. Candelario is the reciepient of the 2009 LASA Latina/o Studies Section Book Award.

The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 by Rebecca A. Earle has been recognized with an honorable mention for the 2008 Bolton-Johnson Award, presented by the Conference on Latin American History.

A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952 by Laura Gotkowitz, was awarded the 2008 John E. Fagg Prize at the American Historical Association annual conference.

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders by Kathy Davis is the winner of the 2009 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, presented by the American Historical Association. Last year, the book also received the 2008 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award and the 2008 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize.

Several Duke University Press titles will be recognized by the Association for Asian American Studies at the 2009 annual conference. Sessue Hayakawa by Daisuke Miyao was named the 2007 Best Book in History; Interventions into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry was named the 2007 Best Book in Literary Studies; and Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar and The Hypersexuality of Race by Celine Parreñas Shimizu were named 2007 Best Books in Cultural Studies.

Our Spring 2010 catalog is now available online.

Over thirty years of back content for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law now available online and free to current subscribers

Duke University Press is pleased to announce that over thirty years of back content for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is now available online for the first time on HighWire at jhppl.dukejournals.org. Current subscribers can access the content of more than 190 issues—from the very first issue of the journal, originally published in 1976, to the current issue—for free as part of their paid subscription.

For more information, please download the full press release.

Duke Press launches its blog.
For up-to-date news about our books and journals, and links to reviews, interviews, and author events, please visit our new blog.