History of Art Professor Patrick McNaughton’s book, A Bird Dance Near Saturday City, received an honorable mention for the African Studies Association Melville J. Herskovits Award for best book published in any discipline in African studies. 

Willis Barnstone, faculty emeritus of Comparative Literature and Spanish and Portuguese had three books published:

• Ancient Greek Lyrics (forthcoming December 2009, IU Press), translated and annotated by Willis Barnstone; introduction by William E. McCulloh. Ancient Greek Lyrics collects Willis Barnstone's elegant translations of Greek lyric poetry—including the most complete Sappho in English, newly translated.
• The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas (W.W. Norton,October 2009)
• The Complete Poems of Sappho, translated by Willis Barnstone, paperback / Shambhala Publications.

Vivian Halloran, associate professor of Comparative Literature, published Exhibiting Slavery : The Caribbean Postmodern Novel as Museum (University of Virginia Press, November 2009), which examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of "primary documents" within their pages.

Many professors in the English Professor have recently published books:

• Michael P. Adams: Slang: The People’s Poetry. Ox­ford University Press, 2009., and with Anne Curzon (University of Michigan), How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction, 2nd Edition. Pearson Longman, 2009.
• Judith Anderson ‘s book Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton. Fordham University Press, 2008, was awarded the Isabel McCaf­frey Prize for best book on Spenser and Renaissance literature published in 2008-2009, a prize conferred by the International Spenser Society.
• Catherine Bowman published The Plath Cabinet. Four Way Books, 2009. She also received an IU Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities Fellowship for “The International Living Language Poetry Archive.”
• Judith Brown published Glamour in Six Dimensions: Mod­ernism and the Radiance of Form (Cornell University Press, 2009).
• The new Norton Critical Edition of Richard III reprints Linda Charnes’ chapter from Notorious Iden­tity in its selection of criticism. Shakespeare after 9/11 (eds. Julia Lupton and Matthew Biberman) includes Linda’s essay “The Fetish of Character.”
• Edward Comentale was editor (with Aaron Jaffe) of The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies (Indiana University Press, 2009).
• Mary Favret published War at a Distance (Princeton University Press, 2009).  She also received a CAHI Fellowship for “Keats’s Vision.”
• Susan Gubar’s book Judas: A Biography (W. W. Norton, 2009) was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice in April 2009.
• Paul Gutjahr was the editor of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans. Critical Edition. Broadview Press 2009.
• Scott Herring was the editor of Ralph Werther, Autobiog­raphy of an Androgyne. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
• Christoph Irmscher published Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200. (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009).  He was also co-editor of A Keener Perspec­tive (University of Alabama Press, 2009).
• Joshua Kates published Fielding Derrida: Philosophy, Lit­erary Criticism, History, and the Work of Deconstruction. Fordham University Press, 2009.
• Alyce Miller’s book Water was a finalist for the Pater­son Prize for an outstanding book of short fiction.
• Scott Sanders published A Conservationist Manifesto. Indiana University Press, 2009.   He also received the 2009 Mark Twain Award of the Society for the Study of Midwest­ern Literature. Wilderness Plots, the musical performance based on Sanders’s book about early pioneer life in the Ohio Valley, continues to tour.
• Maura Stanton published Immortal Sofa. University of Il­linois Press, 2008.
• Professor Emeritus Philip Appleman  published Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie. The Quantuck Lane Press , W. W. Norton & Co., 2009, and Darwin’s Ark. Indiana University Press, 2009.
• Rudy Professor Emeritus Pat Brantlinger published Victorian Literature and Postcolo­nial Studies. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
• Professor Emeritus Merritt Eugene (“Gene”) Lawlis  published Winking at Death. Authorhouse, 2009.

Telecommunications professors Betsi Grabe and Erik Bucy published Image Bite Politics: News and the Visual Framing of Elections. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Sumit Ganguly has three books coming out next year:

1. Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, India, Pakistan and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
2. Sumit Ganguly, ed. Indian Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010)
3. Sumit Ganguly, Andrew Scobell and Joseph Liow, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Asian Security (London: Routledge, 2010)

Ron Sela, Central Eurasian Studies and History, published the book Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Historical Sources (Indiana University Press, 2009) with co-author Scott C. Levi of Ohio State University. The volume includes, among other things, Sela's original translations from Arabic, Persian, Chaghatay Turkic, Russian, and Old French.

The Dictionary of Louisiana French, edited by Rudy Professor Emeritus Albert Valdman and Associate Professor Kevin Rottet, was published recently. The official launch was accompanied by book signings and receptions in New Orleans on Friday and in Lafayette, LA

Sarah Eaton, Assistant Director, Collins Living-Learning Center, has a book of prose poems, entitled TOUGH SKIN, coming out in January 2010 from BlazeVOX Press.

Oxford University Press has published a new edition of the U.S. history survey, Of the People, co-authored by History Professors Nick Cullather and Michael McGerr, along with Jeanne Boydston, Jan Lewis, and James Oakes.

Oxford University Press has just published History Professor James H. Madison’s World War II: A History in Documents, in their “Pages from History” series.  The book grew out of Jim’s W325 history class and is dedicated to students at Indiana University.

Scott O’Bryan’s book The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan was released Spring 2009 by University of Hawaii Press.  O’Bryan is associate professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures. It was the winner of the 2008 First Book Prize of the Weatherhead East Asian  Institute, Columbia University.

Klaus Muehlhahn’s book Criminal Justice in China - A History has just been awarded the  American Historical Association's John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History for 2009.  

Communication and Culture Professor Carolyn Calloway-Thomas recently published  Empathy in the Global World: An Intercultural Perspective .

CMCL Assistant Professor Mary L. Gray's new book Out in the Country:  Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America (NYU Press 2009) won the American Anthropological  Association's Ruth Benedict Book Prize awarded by the Society of  Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists.

Christiane Gruber is happy to announce that her second book, entitled The Ilkhanid Book of Ascension: A Persian-Sunni Devotional Tale, was published in December. Two edited volumes appeared in print in December as well: 1) "The Prophet’s Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Mi‘raj Tales"; and 2) "The Islamic Manuscript Tradition: Ten Centuries of Islamic Book Arts in Indiana University Collections." Linked to this second volume, a permanent web exhibition of Islamic book arts at Indiana University went active online this summer.

Communication and Culture Professor John Louis Lucaites co-edited Rhetoric, Materiality, and Politics with Barbara Biesecker. (Peter Lang, 2009.)

Jeff Hart, professor of Political Science, has an upcoming book: The Politics of International Economic Relations (with Joan Edelman Spero), 7th edition (Boston: Wadsworth, 2010).  He also has chapters in edited volumes : "Toward a Political Economy of Digital Culture," in J.P. Singh (ed.), International Cultural Policies and Power (Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 forthcoming); and
"Video on the Internet: The Content Question," in Darcy Gerbarg (ed.), Television Goes Digital (New York: Springer, 2009).

William E. Scheuerman, professor of Political Science and West European Studies, published Hans Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond. Polity Press,Cambridge, UK.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian Peter Bondanella has a new book out: A HISTORY OF ITALIAN CINEMA.  New York and London: Continuum International Publishers, 2009. A History of Italian Cinema is the only comprehensive and up-to-date book on the subject available anywhere, in any language.

Laura L. Scheiber (Anthropology) is the co-editor of Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies,  1400-1900 which will be released in February by the University of Arizona Press.

Pravina Shukla, associate professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, won the 2009 Millia Davenport Publication Award given by the Costume Society of America for her book The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India (2008, Indiana University Press). The Davenport Publication Award, named to honor the memory of Millia Davenport (1896-1992), noted costume scholar and theatre designer, recognizes excellence in scholarship in the study of costume. The award seeks to promote research and publication on dress, recognizing a published book or exhibition catalog that makes a significant contribution to the study of costume, reflecting original thought and exceptional creativity, and drawing on appropriate research methods and techniques.

Brian Steensland, Sociology, has been awarded the following 2 outstanding book awards for The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy

• 2009 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book from the ASA’s Sociology of Culture Section
• 2009 Best Book Award from the ASA’s Political Sociology Section

Judah Cohen’s The Making of a Reform Jewish Cantor: Musical Authority, Cultural Investment was published by Indiana University Press. The book provides an unprecedented look into the meaning of attaining musical authority among American Reform Jews at the turn of the 21st century.

Padraic Kenney’s book 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War’s End: A Brief History with Documents has just been published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.