ASSOCIATION
OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2021 PROSE AWARDS
Washington, DC – The Association of
American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled finalists for the 45thannual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE)
Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2020, comprising a total
of 130 finalists across 45 subject categories.
Since 1976, the Association of American
Publishers’ annual PROSE Awards have recognized publishers who produce books,
journals, reference works, and digital products of extraordinary merit that
make a significant contribution to a field of study each year.
“We are delighted to be celebrating the
PROSE Awards 45thanniversary with an extraordinary group
of finalists, representing the full range of scholarly publishing,” commented
Syreeta Swann, Vice President, Programs and Administration, AAP. “We look
forward to announcing the Subject Category and Excellence Award winners, as
well as the PROSE Awards’ top honor, the R.R. Hawkins Award, in the weeks
ahead.”
In announcing the finalists, AAP
commends the panel of 23 judges who reviewed more than 590 entries in this
year’s competition, ultimately discovering works that speak to the breadth,
depth, and criticality of scholarly publishing.
In the next few weeks, AAP will further
refine the field by announcing a Subject Category Winner from among the
finalists in each of the 44 categories. Subject Category Winners will go on to
compete for one of five awards:
·
The
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
·
The
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
·
The
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
·
The
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works
·
The
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
One of these five Excellence Winners
will receive the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize of the annual
PROSE competition.
The R.R. Hawkins Award is named for the long-time New
York Public Library executive and author whose dedication and passion for
professional and scholarly works significantly contributed to the acceptance of
American science and scholarship across the globe. The 2020 R.R. Hawkins
Award recipient
was Carmen C. Bambach’s Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered from Yale University Press, a
“modern rethinking of the career and vision of one of the greatest artists
of all time on the 500th anniversary of his death.”
The list of finalists is below:
Biography & Autobiography
·
At
the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva, Alice Jardine, Bloomsbury
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