Category: Awards

Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez Wins Inaugural AAHHE Distinguished Author Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

February 5, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that University of Arizona Press author Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez is the winner of the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education’s inaugural Distinguished Scholar Award!

AAHHE awards Carlos in recognition of his exceptional academic and scholarly contributions to the advancement of Latinos and Latinos in higher education, which is a set of contributions beautifully documented in Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist.

“This magnificent tome provides its readers with an informative and comprehensive summation of Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez’s life’s work, which has been and continues to be extraordinary. We are delighted to be able to add our modest recognition and kudos to the host of awards and honors of which Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez has been a recipient.”―Patricia Arredondo, Chair, AAHHE Board of Directors

Congratulations, Carlos!

A Desert Feast Wins a Pubwest Book Design Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

February 2, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that A Desert Feast won a silver award in the Adult Trade Book – Illustrated section of the Pubwest Book Design Awards! PubWest Book Design Awards recognize superior design and outstanding production quality of books throughout North America.

Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. A Desert Feast by Carolyn Niethammer offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became America’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy.

Spiral to the Stars Wins 2020 Beatrice Medicine Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

February 2, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that Spiral to the Stars by Laura Harjo is the winner of the 2020 Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Monograph! Chosen by the members of the Native American Literature Symposium and the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures boards, this award highlights exceptional work published in the field of Indigenous studies in the year 2019.

“This country’s first philosophers, poets, artists, and knowledge keepers were Indigenous peoples. The Mvskoke were a major cultural force in the southeast. Laura Harjo’s Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity marks a continuation of the development of our cultural knowledge. Community defines us, and we do not go forward together without the revisioning of all elements that make a living culture. Each generation makes a concentric circle that leans outward into the deepest star knowledges even as it leans inward toward the roots of earth knowledge. We are still here within the shape of this cultural geography. We keep moving forward with the tools Harjo has illuminated here. Mvto.”—Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), U.S. Poet Laureate

Congratulations, Laura!

A Desert Feast, A Good Map of All Things, and The Saguaro Cactus Picked as Southwest Books of the Year

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

February 2, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that A Desert Feast by Carolyn Niethammer and A Good Map of All Things by Alberto Álvaro Ríos were chosen as top picks for the 2021 Southwest Books of the Year! Additionally, The Saguaro Cactus by David Yetman, Alberto Burquez, Kevin Hultine, and Michael Sanderson, was included in Gregory McNamee’s Southwest Books of the Year picks.

Southwest Books of the Year considers titles published during the calendar year that are about Southwest subjects, or are set in the Southwest.

The Southwest Books of the Year panel of reviewers—subject specialists and voracious consumers of Southwest literature all—are pleased to offer up their personal favorite titles of the year, complete with brief reviews to whet your appetite and leave you wanting more. Books selected by two or more panelists become Southwest Books of the Year Top Picks. Their choices are published in our annual publication, Southwest Books of the Year.

Congratulations to our wonderful authors!

Girl of New Zealand Chosen as a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

December 18, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Michelle Erai’s Girl of New Zealand was chosen as a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!

These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as an important treatment of their subject.

Girl of New Zealand presents a nuanced insight into the way violence and colonial attitudes shaped the representation of Māori women and girls. Michelle Erai examines more than thirty images of Māori women alongside the records of early missionaries and settlers in Aotearoa, as well as comments by archivists and librarians, to shed light on how race, gender, and sexuality have been ascribed to particular bodies.

Congratulations, Michelle!

Aída Hurtado Receives Honorable Mention for the 2020 NWSA Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

November 10, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Aída Hurtado received an honorable mention for the 2020 NWSA Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize for her recent University of Arizona Press title, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms!

The 2020 NWSA Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize offers recognition for groundbreaking monographs in women’s studies that make significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship. The prize honors Gloria Anzaldúa, a valued and long-active member of the National Women’s Studies Association.

Advocating for and demonstrating the importance of an intersectional, multidisciplinary, activist understanding of Chicanas, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms provides a much-needed overview of the key theories, thinkers, and activists that have contributed to Chicana feminisms.

Aída Hurtado is the Luis Leal Endowed Chair and a professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is co-author of Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society and co-author of Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities.

Congratulations, Aída!

Meditación Fronteriza Receives an International Latino Book Award Honorable Mention

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

September 14, 2020

We are thrilled that Meditación Fronteriza by Norma Elia Cantú received an honorable mention for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award section of the International Latino Book Awards!

Meditación Fronteriza is a beautifully crafted exploration of life in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Written by award-winning author Norma Elia Cantú, the poems flow from Spanish to English gracefully as they explore culture, traditions, and solidarity.

Norma E. Cantú is a scholar-activist who currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University. She is founder and director of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. She has published fiction, poetry, and personal essays in a number of venues.

Reel Latinxs Wins International Latino Book Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

September 14, 2020

We are so thrilled to announce that Reel Latinxs by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González won first place for the Best Nonfiction- Multi-Author section of the 2020 International Latino Book Awards!

In Reel Latinxs, experts in Latinx pop culture Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González explain the real implications of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film. They also provide a roadmap through a history of mediatized Latinxs that rupture stereotypes and reveal nuanced reconstructions of Latinx subjectivities and experiences.

Frederick Luis Aldama is University Distinguished Professor, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and Alumni Distinguished Teacher at The Ohio State University. He is the 2018 recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring and the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award. He is the award-winning author, co-author, and editor of more than forty books.

Christopher González is an associate professor of English and director of the Latinx Cultural Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Congratulations, Frederick and Christopher!

Meditación Fronteriza Nominated as a Finalist for the International Latino Book Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

August 20, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Meditación Fronteriza by Norma Elia Cantú is a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards Juan Felipe Herrera Poetry Book section! At the Virtual Awards Ceremony on September 12, the first, second, and honorable mention will be announced. The virtual and free program starts with entertainment at 2:30pm Pacific Time and the ceremony begins at 3:00 pm Pacific Time. Visit the International Latino Book Awards website for more details.

“Again, healer, teacher, foremother Norma Cantú stitches together the art of documentation. Here, she weaves together mediations on the literal/spiritual/intellectual/metaphorical borderlands. A gathering of love poems carving a space to grieve and to celebrate, these poems honor the land, the people in it, and women’s bodies in bloom and in decay in all the places we exist and in all our forms—algebra teachers and poets and pecan shellers and lovers. Like the tendrils of a vine, each poem sprouts its own delicate truth.”—Laurie Ann Guerrero

Norma E. Cantú is a scholar-activist who currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University. She is founder and director of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. She has published fiction, poetry, and personal essays in a number of venues.

Congratulations on this wonderful news, Norma!

Reel Latinxs Nominated as a Finalist for the International Latino Book Award

Posted on by Savannah Hicks

August 20, 2020

We are thrilled to announce that Reel Latinxs by Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González is a finalist for the International Latino Book Awards Best Nonfiction— Multi-Author section! At the Virtual Awards Ceremony on September 12, the first, second, and honorable mention will be announced. The virtual and free program starts with entertainment at 2:30pm Pacific Time and the ceremony begins at 3:00 pm Pacific Time. Visit the International Latino Book Awards website for more details.

In Reel Latinxs, Aldama and González blaze new paths through Latinx cultural phenomena that disrupt stereotypes, breathing complexity into real Latinx subjectivities and experiences. In this grand sleuthing sweep of Latinx representation in mainstream TV and film that continues to shape the imagination of U.S. society, these two Latinx pop culture authorities call us all to scholarly action.

Frederick Luis Aldama is University Distinguished Professor, Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and Alumni Distinguished Teacher at The Ohio State University. He is the 2018 recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Teaching and Mentoring and the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership Award. He is the award-winning author, co-author, and editor of more than forty books. He is editor and co-editor of eight academic press book series as well as editor of Latinographix, a trade press series that publishes Latinx graphic fiction and nonfiction.

Christopher González is an associate professor of English and director of the Latinx Cultural Center at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.

Congratulations, Frederick and Christopher!

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