Prize Winning Titles

This page features an overview of prize winning titles from the Ashgate, Gower and Lund Humphries publishing programmes.

We are also proud to present:

 

2013 Prize Winners

Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831
Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831
David Sandner, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Shortlisted for the 2013 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies sponsored by the Mythopoeic Society

 
Trust in Virtual Teams
Trust in Virtual Teams
Thomas P. Wise

Finalist in the Business: Management and Leadership category of the 2013 International Book Awards

 

2012 Prize Winners

Amy Lowell, Diva Poet
Amy Lowell, Diva Poet
Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago, USA

Winner of the 2012 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars

 
The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630
The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630
Claire Jowitt, University of Southampton, UK

Awarded 'Honorable Mention' for the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2012 in the Literatures in the English Language category

Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France
Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France
Janet E. Snyder, West Virginia University, USA

Winner of the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research, 2012

 
Learning from Delhi
Learning from Delhi
Edited by Shamoon Patwari and Bo Tang, Written by Maurice Mitchell, London Metropolitan University, UK

Winner of the Urban Design Group Publisher's Award 2011

Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde
Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde
Shirley Mangini, California State University, USA

Selected for an Honorable mention in the Eleanor Tufts Award 2012

 
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851
National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851
Linda E. Connors, Drew University, USA, and Mary Lu MacDonald

Linda E. Connors awarded Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Book Award for the best book published by an alumnus of Drew University

Recognizing Transsexuals
Recognizing Transsexuals
Zowie Davy, University of Lincoln, UK

Joint winner of the 2012 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology

 
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World
Edited by Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami, USA, and Rosilie Hernández, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Winner in the 2012 Collaborative Project category for books published in 2011, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

 

2011 Prize Winners

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Edited by Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, USA and Kris McAbee, University of Arkansas, USA.

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, 2011, sponsored by The Folklore Society (UK)

 
Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization
Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization
Edited by David Nelken, University of Macerata, Italy and Cardiff University, UK

David Nelken has been awarded the ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Prize 2011 'in the form of distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievement'.

The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Edited by Michael G. Brennan, University of Leeds, UK, Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USA, and Noel J. Kinnamon, Mars Hill College, USA

Winner of the Josephine Roberts Edition Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2011

 
Culture and Economics in the Global Community
Culture and Economics in the Global Community
Kensei Hiwaki

Winner of 2011 Book of the Year Award from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS)

Dark Territory in the Information Age
Dark Territory in the Information Age
Matthew G. Hannah, Aberystwyth University, UK

Winner of the Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award, 2011

 
Empress Eugénie and the Arts
Empress Eugénie and the Arts
Alison McQueen, McMaster University, Canada

Winner of the Prix du livre non francophone, 2011, awarded by The Fondation Napoléon

Exemplary Spenser
Exemplary Spenser
Jane Grogan, University College - Dublin, Ireland

Winner of the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize 2011, awarded by the International Spenser Society

 
Exploiting Future Uncertainty
Exploiting Future Uncertainty
David Hillson

David Hillson awarded the PMI Eric Jennett Project Management Excellence Award

Exploring the Bhagavad Gita
Exploring the Bhagavad Gita
Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa, Israel

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011

 
Government Information Management in the 21st Century
Government Information Management in the 21st Century
Edited by Peggy Garvin, Garvin Information Consulting, USA

Peggy Garvin awarded the Special Libraries Association's Dow Jones Leadership Award in 2011

The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence
The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Bethan Jones, University of Hull, UK

Winner of The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America, Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies 2011

 
The Late Paintings of Velázquez
The Late Paintings of Velázquez
Giles Knox, Indiana University, USA

Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Eleanor Tufts book prize competition, 2011, sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS)

Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth
Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth
Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USA

Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award, 2011

 
Michelangelo in Print
Michelangelo in Print
Bernadine Barnes, Wake Forest University, USA

Awarded an Honorable Mention for the IFPDA Book Award, 2011

Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Edited by Paul Attinello, University of Newcastle, UK, Janet K. Halfyard, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK and Vanessa Knights, formerly University of Newcastle, UK

Winner of the Long Mr. Pointy Award for Buffy Studies Scholarship (2011), awarded by the Whedon Studies Association

   
The Poet as Believer
The Poet as Believer
Aidan Nichols O.P., Blackfriars, Cambridge, UK

Winner of the CCL Book Award 2011

 
Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy
Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy
Robert Reiner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Robert Reiner, winner of the BSC Outstanding Achievement Award for 2011

 
Protest Music in France
Protest Music in France
Barbara Lebrun, The University of Manchester, UK

Winner of the 2011 IASPM prize for best English language monograph

Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime
Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime
Edited by Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida, USA and Paul B. Stretesky, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

Michael J. Lynch, winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology

 
The Right Not to be Criminalized
The Right Not to be Criminalized
Dennis J. Baker, King's College, University of London, UK

Shortlisted for the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2011

Sheila Fell
Sheila Fell
Cate Haste, with a Foreword by Frank Auerbach

Winner of the Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2011

 
The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe
The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe
David S. Areford, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Awarded an Honorable Mention for the IFPDA Book Award, 2011