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Call for Nominations for the 2009 Outstanding Publication Award (Minneapolis)

The Subcommittee on the Outstanding Publication Award asks for your help in identifying first books published by CAMWS members in 2006, 2007, or 2008. Self-nominations are encouraged. Both textbooks and monographs are eligible for consideration.  Please send titles and publishing information to Prof. Michael Gagarin, Department of Classics C3400, The University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station
Austin, Texas 78712-0308 or notify him by email at gagarin@mail.utexas.edu. The Committee will close its list for the 2009 award in June 2008. Books published after that date may be considered for the 2010 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 Edward Watt 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 2007 award of $500 plus a certificate was presented at the meeting in Cincinnati, OH. Both monographs and textbooks were eligible; the single criterion was excellence as judged by the committee. Nominations (including self-nominations) were welcome. The committee this year considered books published in 2002 or later.

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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.