Call for Nominations for the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award

The Subcommittee on the Outstanding Publication Award asks for your help in identifying first books published by CAMWS members in 2009, 2010, or 2011. Self-nominations are encouraged. Both textbooks and monographs are eligible for consideration. Please send titles and publishing information to Elizabeth Carney elizab@clemson.edu. The Committee will close its list for the 2012 award on September 1, 2011.

Books published after that date may be considered for the 2013 award.

The winning book for 2012 will be announced on March 31, 2012, at the 108th Annual Meeting of CAMWS in Baton Rouge.

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 the 2011 award is Andrew Faulkner of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for his book The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Introduction, Text, and Commentary published by Oxford University Press in 2008. The 2011 award was presented at the meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The 2010 award went to Emily E. Baragwanath of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for her bookMotivation and Narrative in Herodotus, published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

The 2009 award went to 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 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.