Recent Media Coverage
of Duke University Press Books

Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music, edited by Eric Weisbard, was reviewed in the new issue of Bookforum. Reviewer Geeta Dayal writes, "Listen Again has the guiding vision and rigorous analysis that so much current journalistic and scholarly writing on popular music lacks. . . . The eclecticism on display here isn't distracting; the book benefits by drawing on many perspectives. Instead of reading as a throwback to music criticism's glory days, Listen Again maps a future for the field."

Milton C. Sernett's Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History was reviewed in the Raleigh News and Observer. Reviewer John David Smith calls the book "exceptionally well-researched." and writes that "Sernett succeeds admirably in exposing 'the heroic and heavily mediated' Tubman. . . . [but] nevertheless does not diminish Tubman's importance."

Danny Wilcox Frazier, author of Driftless: Photographs from Iowa is interviewed in the current issue of Photoeye. Driftless is also featured in the Des Moines Register. And Frazier appeared on The Exchange, on Iowa Public Radio.

A. N. Wilson praised Duke's latest edition of The Carlyle Letters in the Telegraph: "One of the most prodigious academic enterprises of our times has been the decision by Duke University to produce a learned edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle." The collection "reads like a tragi-comic novel," he says.

Ramón Saldívar's The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary was the subject of an essay and podcast by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed.

David H. Price, author of the forthcoming book Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of Anthropology in the Second World War, was quoted in Inside Higher Education speaking about about the release of the final report of the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the U.S. Security and Intelligence Communities. Price was also quoted in the Toronto Star and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Duke University Press salutes our recent award-winning books

Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valetine is a finalist for 2008 Lambda Literary Award, in the non-fiction category. The book is also the recipient of the 2007 Ruth Benedict Award, presented by the Society of Gay and Lesbian Anthropologists (SOLGA).

Battling for Hearts and Minds by Steve J. Stern is the winner of the 2007 Bolton-Johnson Award, presented by the Conference of Latin American Historians.

The Plebeian Republic, The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State by Cecilia Méndez is the winner of the 2007 Howard Cline Memorial Prize, presented by the Conference on Latin American History.

The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar has been named co-winner of the 2006 MLA Prize in U.S. Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, presented in December 2007.

Robert N. Bellah, distinguished author of many books including The Robert Bellah Reader, has won the American Academy of Religion's Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award.

Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar is the co-winner of the 2007 Sharon Stephens First Book Award from the American Ethnological Society.

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico by Jake Kosek is the recipient of the 2007 John Hope Franklin Award, presented by the American Studies Association.

Global Cinderellas by Pei-Chia Lan has received the 2007 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize for a study in social science. The book is also the recipient of the 2007 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award.

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer is the co-winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, presented by the Caribbean Studies Association.

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage by Susan Seizer has been awarded the 2007 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, presented by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Policing Chinese Politics by Michael Dutton has been awarded the 2007 Joseph Levinson Book Prize for post-1900 China, presented by the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

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