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2007 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award Winners
Contact: Anne D. Garner
(202) 862-9893
agarner@ajcunet.edu
WASHINGTON, DC - October 1, 2007 - The 2007 Book Awards, sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu (the Jesuit College and University Honor Society), and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU), were announced today. The category for this year's book awards was "Professional Studies." Sixty entries from 16 Jesuit institutions were submitted for this year's contest.
The following are the 2007 winners in the category of "Professional Studies."
A Century of Media, A Century of War (Peter Lang, 2006) by Robin Andersen, professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University.
Talking Race in the Classroom (Teachers College Press, 2005) by Jane Bolgatz, an assistant professor of social studies education in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University.
The Culture and Commerce of Publishing in the 21st Century (Stanford Business Books, 2007) by Albert N. Greco, and Robert M. Wharton, professors in the School of Business at Fordham University and Clara E. RodrÃguez, a professor of sociology at Fordham University.
Sensory Design (University of Minnesota Press, 2004) by Frank Vodvarka, a professor of fine arts at Loyola University Chicago and Joy Monice Malnar, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards are open to all faculty and administrators, including emeritus faculty and administrators, who have published a book in the three years immediately prior to the year of the discipline. The books are judged by volunteer faculty members on the basis of scholarship, significance of topic to scholars across several disciplines, authority in interpretation, objectivity, presentation, and style. All entries are due by March 1 of the category year and awards are announced October 1.
The 2008 Competition will be in the category of "The Humanities" in which there will be four awards of $1,000 each. For more information on the history of the award and how to enter, see the Alpha Sigma Nu website: www.AlphaSigmaNu.org.
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