The University Press of Florida and UF Press proudly present our award-winning books and authors from the last year.
Dreams in the New Century: Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida’s Turning Point
Gary R. Mormino
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction
Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award
“Provides a window into the state’s politics, people and patterns of life.”—The Economist
The Cuban Sandwich: A History in Layers
Andrew T. Huse, Bárbara C. Cruz, and Jeff Houck
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Cooking
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay Best of the Bay Awards, “Best Approach to Pressing Matters”
“The book unpacks . . . layers of history like those of the sandwich itself . . . to understand where it came from and how it has evolved. It weaves together research and profiles of artisans who are making the sandwich in different parts of the world today.”—NPR
*An NEH SHARP Title
Maximum Vantage: New Selected Columns
Bill Maxwell
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction
“A retrospective of stellar journalism, the impactful collection Maximum Vantage tackles some of society’s biggest issues with insight and incisiveness.”—Foreword Reviews
*An NEH SHARP Title
The State You’re In: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife
Craig Pittman
The Sierra Club Rachel Carson Award, which honors sustained achievement by professional journalists or authors, went to Craig Pittman.
“A variety of diverse, interesting Sunshine State tales. . . . [Pittman] will make you laugh with some stories and leave you wondering about how such a thing could happen in others.”—Tampa Bay Magazine
Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles
David Powell
Florida Historical Society Samuel Proctor Award
Available in Paperback in October
“These vivid accounts remind us that history is lived by ordinary people, whose memories are invaluable.”—Latino Magazine
*An NEH SHARP Title
Forces of Nature: A History of Florida Land Conservation
Clay Henderson
Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Award
“Clay Henderson [is] the undisputed expert on land conservation law in Florida.”—Orlando Sentinel
Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Lindsay Guarino, Carlos R.A. Jones, and Wendy Oliver
National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award
UNCG | Susan W. Stinson Book Award for Dance Education
*An NEH SHARP Title
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women’s Political Culture
Deanna M. Gillespie
Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize
Finalist, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute Hooks National Book Award
A volume in the series Southern Dissent
*An NEH SHARP Title
Cosmonaut: A Cultural History
Cathleen S. Lewis
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics History Manuscript Award
“An innovative study of pop culture, memorabilia, propaganda, and hero worship, Cosmonaut brings the Soviet space program to life from inside Soviet society.”—Foreword Reviews
Marge and Julia: The Correspondence between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham
Edited by Rodger L. Tarr, Brent E. Kinser, and Florence M. Turcotte
Florida Historical Society Rembert Patrick Award
Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
Takkara K. Brunson
Association of Black Women Historians Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize
“What distinguishes this study of race and gender in early Republican Cuba is its nuanced focus on how Black male veterans, elite white women’s civic clubs, and women of African descent shaped different citizenship practices in the public sphere.”—Choice
*An NEH SHARP Title
The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum
Sandro R. Barros, Rafael Ocasio, and Angela L. Willis
International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Biography (English)
American Educational Research Association, Division B: Curriculum Studies, Outstanding Book Award
*An NEH SHARP Title
Jewish Experiences across the Americas: Local Histories through Global Lenses
Edited by Katalin Franciska Rac and Lenny A. Ureña Valerio
Latin American Jewish Studies Association Best Edited Volume
*An NEH SHARP Title
Dictionary of Latin American Identities
John T. Maddox IV and Thomas M. Stephens
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“The vast diversity of Latin America needs a tool such as this, which opens up the nuances of regional Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, and the other languages of the hemispheres. . . . This is a rich resource for understanding language as a key to identity.”—Choice
Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire
Mauro José Caraccioli
International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Virginia Tech.
“An open and compelling invitation for future interdisciplinary investigation into this complicated moral and environmental tapestry and its many weavers.”—H-Net
Under the Shade of Thipaak: The Ethnoecology of Cycads in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Edited by Michael D. Carrasco, Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Mark A. Bonta, and Joshua D. Englehardt
Society for Ethnobotany Daniel F. Austin Award
Presidios of Spanish West Florida
Judith A. Bense
Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award
A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
The Nine Lives of Florida’s Famous Key Marco Cat
Austin J. Bell
Florida Trust for Historic Preservation Award for Meritorious Achievement in Preservation Communications
Honorable Mention, Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award
All Things Beautiful: Wonders from the Collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History
Distributed on behalf of the Florida Museum of Natural History
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Indigo Design Awards, Gold Winner in Book Design for Graphic Design
B is for Baldwin: An Alphabet Tour of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
Edited by Suzan Alteri
Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Visual Arts
*Publication of these works is made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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