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Call for Nominations for the 2010 Outstanding Publication Award (Oklahoma City)

The Subcommittee on the Outstanding Publication Award asks for your help in identifying first books published by CAMWS members in 2007, 2008, or 2009. Self-nominations are encouraged. Both textbooks and monographs are eligible for consideration. Please send titles and publishing information to Prof. K. Sara Myers, Department of Classics B018 Cocke Hall, P.O. Box 400788, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4788 or notify her by email at ksm8m@virginia.edu. The Committee will close its list for the 2010 award in June 2009. Books published after that date may be considered for the 2011 award.

The CAMWS Award for Outstanding Publication every year recognizes a distinguished first book published by a member of CAMWS during the past four years. The recipient of this year's award is Carin Green of the University of Iowa for her book Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. The 2009 award of $500 plus a certificate was presented at the meeting in Minneapolis, MN. Read more about the award.

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The 2008 award went to William E. Hutton of the College of William and Mary for his book Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.

The 2007 award went to Edward Watts of Indiana University for his book City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria. Read more about the award and this year's recipient.

The 2006 award went to Kathy L. Gaca of Vanderbilt University for her book The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (University of California Press, 2003).

The 2005 award went to Noel Lenski for his book Failure of Empire:  Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., published by the University of California Press in 2002.

The 2004 award went to Vanessa Gorman, for her book, Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 B.C.E., published by the University of Michigan Press in 2001.

The 2003 award went to Dennis E. Trout, of Tufts University, for his book, Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems, published by the University of California Press in 1999.

The 2002 award went to Thomas A. McGinn, of Vanderbilt University, for his book, Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome, published by Oxford University Press in 1998.