U-M Press Titles Named as 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles by CHOICE

By: Charles Watkinson | Date: January 9, 2021
U-M Press Titles Named as 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles by CHOICE

University of Michigan Press is proud to have nine titles listed among the 2020 Outstanding Academic Titles from CHOICE. CHOICE is the book reviewing magazine of the Association of College and Research Librarians.

The awarded titles are:

  1. Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader, by Cory Brant
  2. Handiland: The Crippest Place on Earth, by Elizabeth A. Wheeler
  3. Laughing Atoms, Laughing Matter: Lucretius's De Rerum Natura and Satire, by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad
  4. Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers: African Disapora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War, by Cedric R. Tolliver
  5. Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America, by Marcela A. Fuentes
  6. Rediscovering Korean Cinema, edited by Sangjoon Lee
  7. The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement, by Pang Laikwan
  8. The Politics of American Jews, by Herbert F. Weisberg
  9. Who Killed American Poetry? From National Obsession to Elite Possession, by Karen L. Kilcup

The citation reads, "awarding outstanding works for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections."