Prize Winning Titles

This page features an overview of prize winning titles from the Ashgate, Gower and Lund Humphries publishing programmes.

We are also proud to present:

2013 Prize Winners

Critical Discourses of the Fantastic, 1712–1831
David Sandner, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Shortlisted for the 2013 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies sponsored by the Mythopoeic Society

Trust in Virtual Teams
Thomas P. Wise

Finalist in the Business: Management and Leadership category of the 2013 International Book Awards

2012 Prize Winners

Amy Lowell, Diva Poet Melissa Bradshaw, Loyola University Chicago, USA Winner of the 2012 Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars		The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630 Claire Jowitt, University of Southampton, UK Awarded 'Honorable Mention' for the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2012 in the Literatures in the English Language category
Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France Janet E. Snyder, West Virginia University, USA Winner of the SECAC Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research, 2012		Learning from Delhi Edited by Shamoon Patwari and Bo Tang, Written by Maurice Mitchell, London Metropolitan University, UK Winner of the Urban Design Group Publisher's Award 2011
Maruja Mallo and the Spanish Avant-Garde Shirley Mangini, California State University, USA Selected for an Honorable mention in the Eleanor Tufts Award 2012		National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815–1851 Linda E. Connors, Drew University, USA, and Mary Lu MacDonald Linda E. Connors awarded Drew University’s Bela Kornitzer Book Award for the best book published by an alumnus of Drew University
Recognizing Transsexuals Zowie Davy, University of Lincoln, UK Joint winner of the 2012 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best first and sole-authored book within the discipline of Sociology		Women's Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World Edited by Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami, USA, and Rosilie Hernández, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Winner in the 2012 Collaborative Project category for books published in 2011, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

2011 Prize Winners

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 Edited by Patricia Fumerton, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, USA and Kris McAbee, University of Arkansas, USA. Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Award, 2011, sponsored by The Folklore Society (UK)		Comparative Criminal Justice and Globalization Edited by David Nelken, University of Macerata, Italy and Cardiff University, UK David Nelken has been awarded the ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Prize 2011 'in the form of distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievement'.
The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester Edited by Michael G. Brennan, University of Leeds, UK, Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USA, and Noel J. Kinnamon, Mars Hill College, USA Winner of the Josephine Roberts Edition Prize, awarded by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women in 2011		Culture and Economics in the Global Community Kensei Hiwaki Winner of 2011 Book of the Year Award from the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS)
Dark Territory in the Information Age Matthew G. Hannah, Aberystwyth University, UK Winner of the Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award, 2011		Empress Eugénie and the Arts Alison McQueen, McMaster University, Canada Winner of the Prix du livre non francophone, 2011, awarded by The Fondation Napoléon
Exemplary Spenser Jane Grogan, University College - Dublin, Ireland Winner of the Isabel MacCaffrey Prize 2011, awarded by the International Spenser Society		Exploiting Future Uncertainty David Hillson David Hillson awarded the PMI Eric Jennett Project Management Excellence Award
Exploring the Bhagavad Gita Ithamar Theodor, University of Haifa, Israel A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011		Government Information Management in the 21st Century Edited by Peggy Garvin, Garvin Information Consulting, USA Peggy Garvin awarded the Special Libraries Association's Dow Jones Leadership Award in 2011
The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence Bethan Jones, University of Hull, UK Winner of The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America, Biennial Award to a Newly Published Scholar in Lawrence Studies 2011		The Late Paintings of Velázquez Giles Knox, Indiana University, USA Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Eleanor Tufts book prize competition, 2011, sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS)
Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, USA Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award, 2011		Michelangelo in Print Bernadine Barnes, Wake Forest University, USA Awarded an Honorable Mention for the IFPDA Book Award, 2011
Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Edited by Paul Attinello, University of Newcastle, UK, Janet K. Halfyard, Birmingham Conservatoire, UK and Vanessa Knights, formerly University of Newcastle, UK Winner of the Long Mr. Pointy Award for Buffy Studies Scholarship (2011), awarded by the Whedon Studies Association		The Poet as Believer Aidan Nichols O.P., Blackfriars, Cambridge, UK Winner of the CCL Book Award 2011
Policing, Popular Culture and Political Economy Robert Reiner, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Robert Reiner, winner of the BSC Outstanding Achievement Award for 2011		Protest Music in France Barbara Lebrun, The University of Manchester, UK Winner of the 2011 IASPM prize for best English language monograph
Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime Edited by Michael J. Lynch, University of South Florida, USA and Paul B. Stretesky, University of Colorado, Denver, USA Michael J. Lynch, winner of the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division on Critical Criminology, American Society of Criminology		The Right Not to be Criminalized Dennis J. Baker, King's College, University of London, UK Shortlisted for the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2011
Sheila Fell Cate Haste, with a Foreword by Frank Auerbach Winner of the Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2011		The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe David S. Areford, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Awarded an Honorable Mention for the IFPDA Book Award, 2011

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