Curators’ Award for Scholarly Excellence

For Books Published by the University of Missouri Press

Purpose

The Board of Curators for the University of Missouri System recognizes scholarly excellence among Missouri faculty for a book published by the University of Missouri Press.

Award Amount

The award is for $2,500.

Eligibility

All books published by the press in a given year and written by regular University of Missouri faculty members are considered for the award.

Nomination Format

A Curators' Award Subcommittee (composed of three members of the Faculty Press Committee) recommends the year's winner after reviewing all eligible books. Eligibility is determined on the basis of the originality and scholarly merit of the books under consideration. Edited collections of the work of others (essays, letters, anthologies, etc.) are not considered eligible for the award. Translations, annotated bibliographies and similar "created" works are considered eligible candidates. Priority is given, though, to full-length studies written by a single author.

This Year's Winner

2008 Steve Weinberg, Professor of Journalism, UM-Columbia, "A Journalism of Humanity:  A Candid History of the World's First Journalism School"

Weinberg brings his investigative expertise to bear, tells the school's complex story through thematic chapters.  HE draws on internal documents and correspondence to uncover the politics of the schol from its founding to the present.  ISBN 978-0-8262-1796-7.

Previous Winners

Reviewed 2012-10-16.