Gordon J. Laing Award

Given by Board of University Publications, University of Chicago

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The Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest show more distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press. The first award was given in 1963.

The award is named in honor of the scholar who, serving as general editor of the Press from 1909 until 1940, firmly established the character and reputation of the Press as the premier academic publisher in the United States. show less
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WorkYear
Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State by Elisabeth S. Clemens
2023
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) by Lisa Wedeen
2022
The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America by Michael Rossié
2021
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing
2020
Tough enough : Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil by Deborah Nelson
2019
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row by Forrest Stuart
2018
Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today by David Nirenberg
2017
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again by Atif Mian
2016
I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
2015
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History by Alison Winter
2014
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning) by Andreas Glaeser
2013
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
2012
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards
2011
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Martha Feldman
2010
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age by Bernard E. Harcourt
2009
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera by Philip Gossett
2008
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images by W. J. T. Mitchell
2006
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown
2005
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture by Jonathan M. Hall
2004
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe by Robert J. Richards
2003
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship by Bruce Lincoln
2002
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century by François Furet
2001
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism by James Chandler
2000
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies by André Lacocque
1999
Modern American Religion, Volume 3: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960 by Martin E. Marty
1998
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example by Marshall Sahlins
1997
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation by W. J. T. Mitchell
1996
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States by Edward O. Laumann
1995
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought by David McNeill
1994
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? by Gerald N. Rosenberg
1993
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa by Jean Comaroff
1992
Modernity on Endless Trial by Leszek Kolakowski
1991
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins by Richard G. Klein
1990
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science by S. Chandrasekhar
1989
The Histories by Herodotus
1988
The Founders' Constitution (5 Volume Set) by Philip B. Kurland
1987
A History of Religious Ideas by Mircéa Eliade
1986
Time and Narrative, Volume 1 by Paul Ricœur
1985
Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725 by Richard Hellie
1984
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1. Theology and Ethics by James M. Gustafson
1982
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism by Wayne C. Booth
1981
The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America by Morris Janowitz
1980
Reason and Morality by Alan Gewirth
1979
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions (Experimental Results & Evolutionary Deductions) by Sewall Wright
1978
Culture and Practical Reason by Marshall Sahlins
1977
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics by Keith Michael Baker
1976
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800 by Eric Cochrane
1975
Some Words of Jane Austen by Stuart M. Tave
1974
The Intellectuals and the Powers & Other Essays by Edward Shils
1973
The Origins of Statecraft in China: The Western Chou Empire (v. 1) by Herrlee Glessner Creel
1971
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City (Studies of Urban Society) by Gerald D. Suttles
1970
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture (Centennial Publications of the Univer by Leonard B. Meyer
1969
Ghana and the Ivory Coast; perspectives on modernization by Philip J. Foster
1968
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I: The Century of Discovery. by Donald F. Lach
1967
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization by A. Leo Oppenheim
1966
America's Failure in China, 1941-50 by Tang Tsou
1965
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community by William H. McNeill
1964
A history of literary criticism in the Italian Renaissance by Bernard Weinberg
1963

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