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2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award Winners Announced

October 1, 2008

Contact: Anne D. Garner
(202) 862-9893
agarner@ajcunet.edu

The 2008 Book Awards, sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, were announced today. There were 150 entries from 29 Jesuit institutions. The category for this year's book awards was "The Humanities."

In the Discipline of History:

Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939 - 1958 (Heinemann, 2005) by Elizabeth Schmidt (Professor of History, Loyola College in Maryland)

In the Discipline of Literature/Fine Arts:

Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power (Yale University Press, 2005) by Richard Stites (Distinguished Professor of International Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University)

In the Discipline of Philosophy/Ethics:
 
Rethinking the Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response (Cambridge University Press, 2006) by Daniel A. Dombrowski (Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University)
 
In the Discipline of Theology:

The Diet of John the Baptist (Mohr Siebeck, 2005) by James A. Kelhoffer (Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Saint Louis University)

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 category. 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 2009 Competition will be in the category of "The Sciences" in which there will be an award of $1,000 each in the disciplines of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Health Sciences and Mathematics/Computer Sciences.

For more information on the history of the award and how to enter, please see the Alpha Sigma Nu website: www.AlphaSigmaNu.org.