Book Award
Institute for Humanities Research
Arizona State University
2009-2010 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award
Deadline for nominations: February 14, 2010
The Institute for Humanities Research at
The IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award is an annual award. Every other year we select a recipient from a national requisition for books that are (a) transdisciplinary in methodology and scope, and (b) focused on compelling topics of social relevance, past, present, or future. Bi-annually, we draw nominees from the recent publications by
Nominated books for the 2010 IHR Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award should be works of academic non-fiction that feature a clear humanities perspective, even if they also involve methodologies and perspectives from the sciences and social sciences. 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.
Edited collections are not eligible. Books may be nominated by the author(s), colleagues, or publishers (one book per author, please).
The prize will include a cash award of $1,500, advertisement of the book in all IHR materials, an award certificate, and an all-expense paid visit to the ASU campus in the year following the award so the author(s) may make an informal presentation on the book.
For each nomination, please arrange for the publisher to send 4 copies of the book to the IHR. Nominators should complete the nomination form (on reverse side; also available electronically) by February 15, 2010. Send books and completed form to the Institute for Humanities Research, 107
*The Humanities entail the study of: languages and literatures; linguistics; history; philosophy; religion; ethics; the theory, criticism, and history of the arts; jurisprudence and cultural theory; as well as those aspects of social sciences that have humanistic content and employ humanistic methods. The humanities also include the study and application of the humanities to the human environment and to contemporary life, with particular attention to race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as to diverse peoples and traditions. Humanities methods include (but are not limited to) the deep reading of texts and signs, the construction of meaning through language and interpretation, the exploration of material and visual culture and human practices, and the investigation of knowledge construction itself.