Annual Book Award
IHR Transdisciplinary Book Award:
Established in 2008, the IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award is presented for a non-fiction work that exemplifies transdisciplinary, socially engaged humanities-based scholarship. The award recognizes and celebrates humanities faculty authors from ASU and around the U.S. and the substantial body of transdisciplinary humanistic research reflected in their publications. Every year the IHR honors a work of academic non-fiction by a humanities faculty member, alternating years between ASU faculty and faculty from around the world with the Transdisciplinary Book Award.
A book that is transdisciplinary in methodology and scope works between, among, and within foundational models set-up by disciplines and transforms or transcends those disciplines by: restructuring conventional idea systems and practices; developing new knowledge frameworks or domains; or constructing new paradigms or focal concepts. In keeping with the mission of the IHR, the book should also focus on compelling topics of social or cultural importance—past, present, or future. Edited collections are not eligible.
Book Awards
We are pleased to announce the recpient of the IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for 2010:
Designing Things: A Critical Introduction to the Culture of Objects
Designing Things is a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodolgies- from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies.
Prasad Boradkar
Associate Professor in Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University; Program Director of Industrial Design, Director of Innovation Space.
2010
Silvia Spitta
Spitta, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, is the recipient of the 2010 IHR Book Award for Misplaced Objects: Migrating Collections and Recollections in Europe and the Americas (The University of Texas Press, 2009).
2009
Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Sadowski-Smith, Assitant Professor of English at Arizona State University and the editor of Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at U.S. Borders, is the recipient of the 2009 IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award for Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States (The University of Virginia Press, 2008).
2008
Marita Sturken
Dr. Sturken, Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Co-Director, Visual Culture Program, New York University, is the recipient of the IHR's first Transdisciplinary Book Award i for Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch and Consumerism from Oklahoma to Ground Zero (Duke University Press, 2007).
For additonal information and nomination forms for next year's award, click here.