AAP Announces Four Excellence Winners of PROSE Awards

Mar 02, 2022

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the four Excellence winners of its annual PROSE Awards, which recognize best-in-class scholarly publications in four categories: Biological & Life Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, and Social Sciences. AAP also announced the winner of the program’s top prize, the R.R. Hawkins Award.

  • The PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities and the R.R. Hawkins Award goes to Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Duke University Press).
     
  • The PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences goes to Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future by Lawrence O. Gostin (Harvard University Press). 
     
  • The PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics goes to Atlas of Forecasts: Modeling and Mapping Desirable Futures by Katy Börner (The MIT Press). 
     
  • The PROSE Award for Excellence Social Sciences goes to HALFWAY HOME by Reuben Miller (Little, Brown). 

“We are proud to announce that the R.R. Hawkins Award goes to Duke University Press for Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu,” commented Syreeta Swann, COO of AAP. “We also congratulate Duke University Press; Harvard University Press; Little, Brown and Company; and The MIT Press for winning this year’s Excellence Awards for their exceptional titles. Together, these top honorees reflect an extraordinary level of academic achievement and cultural insight, illustrating that scholarly publishing continues to be an essential force both in academia and the culture at large.” 

During the 2022 PROSE cycle, more than 560 works were nominated for review by a panel of 24 judges. Judges ultimately selected 106 titles to be honored as finalists, and a further 39 titles to be honored as Category Winners.

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