The Professor Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award is presented annually to the best book-length publication by a staff or faculty member of the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
. It is chosen by a committee of various disciplines, who in turn were chosen by the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin.
All nominated books are honored at a ceremony, in addition to the prizewinners. $10,000 is awarded to the first prize winner, with four additional $3,000 prizes.
Past winners
* 2022:
Peniel E. Joseph, Department of History, ''The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr''
* 2020:
Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken (born September 16, 1966) is an American author. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award.
Life
McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North Hig ...
, Department of English, ''Bowlaway: A Novel''
* 2019:
Geraldine Heng
Geraldine Heng is Mildred Hajek Vacek and John Roman Vacek Chair in English and Comparative Literature (formerly Perceval Professor) at the University of Texas at Austin, where, as of November 2022, she was also affiliated with Middle Eastern stu ...
, Department of English, ''The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages''
* 2018:
Daina Ramey Berry
Daina Ramey Berry is an American historian and academic who is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She was formerly the associate dean of the graduate school and chair of the hist ...
, Department of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, ''The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation''
* 2017: Jordan Steiker, School of Law, ''Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment''
* 2016: Charles Ramirez Berg, Department of Radio-Television-Film, ''The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films''
* 2015: Stephennie F. Mulder, Department of Art and Art History, ''The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence''
* 2014:
Denise A. Spellberg, Department of History, ''Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders''
* 2013: Julia E. Guernsey, Department of Art and Art History, ''Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica''
* 2012:
James W. Pennebaker, Department of Psychology, ''The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us''
* 2011:
L. Michael White, Department of Classics, ''Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite''
* 2010: Shirley E. Thompson, Department of American Studies, ''Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans''
* 2009: Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, School of Law, ''Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research''
* 2008:
Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Denise Schmandt-Besserat (born August 10, 1933 in Ay, Marne, France) is a French-American archaeologist and retired professor of art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. She spent much of her professional career as a professor at the Univer ...
, Departments of Art and Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, ''When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story''
* 2007: Evan Carton, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, ''Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America''
* 2006:
L. Michael White, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts, ''From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith''
* 2005:
Eric R. Pianka, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor in Zoology, Section of Integrative Biology, ''Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity''
* 2004:
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Jeffrey Chipps Smith is an American art historian specialising in the Northern Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture. He has published a number of prize winning books on art history. In 2005 he wrote the introduction for a reprint of Erwin ...
, Kay Forston Chair in European Art, Department of Art and Art History, ''Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany''
* 2003:
Philip Bobbitt
Sir Philip Chase Bobbitt (born July 22, 1948) is an American legal scholar and political theorist. He is best known for work on U.S. constitutional law and theory, and on the relationship between law, strategy and history in creating and sustaini ...
, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair, School of Law, ''
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History''
* 2002:
Mounira M. Charrad, Professor of Sociology, ''States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco''
* 2001:
Lucas A. Powe Jr., Professor of Law, ''The Warren Court and American Politics''
* 2000:
A. P. Martinich, Professor of Philosophy, ''Hobbes: A Biography''
* 1999:
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
Linda Dalrymple Henderson (born 1948) is an American art historian, educator, and curator. Henderson is currently the David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Art History Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on mod ...
, Professor of Art & Art History, ''Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works''
* 1998: Neil F. Foley, Associate Professor of History, ''The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture''
* 1997: Robert H. Kane, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, ''The Significance of Free Will''
Bibliography
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External links
Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards Winners
American literary awards
University of Texas at Austin