Ted Striphas, Communication and Culture, received an Indiana University Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in February. His book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, will be published this spring by Columbia University Press.  The companion blog is www.thelateageofprint.org.

The recent book by Roger J.R. Levesque, Chair of Criminal Justice, entitled Adolescents, Media, and the Law (Oxford: 2007) was given the Outstanding Book Award for 2007-2008 by the American Psychology and Law Society.

Jutta Schickore, History and Philosophy of Science, received the Paul Bunge Prize of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) for her book, The Microscope and the Eye: A History of Reflections, 1740-1870 (University of Chicago Press, 2007). The award honors outstanding publications in German, English or French in all fields of the history of scientific instruments.

Jutta Schickore, History and Philosophy of Science, co-edited a collection of historical accounts and philosophical analyses of failures in experimental practice. Going Amiss in Experimental Research, edited by Giora Hon, Jutta Schickore, and Friedrich Steinle, was released by Springer in February.

In 2008, Indiana University Press published Home Grown Indiana: A Food Lover’s Guide to Good Eating in the Hoosier Stateby Christine Barbour, Political Science, coauthored with Scott Hutcheson.

Fritz Breithaupt, Germanic Studies, authored two books recently: Der Ich-Effekt des Geldes: Zur Geschichte einer Legitimationsfigur was published by  Fischer Verlag in 2008, and Kulturen der Empathie will be released by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2009.

American Art to 1900: A Documentary History, by Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts Sarah Burns and co-author John Davis, was recently released by the University of California Press.

Christiane Gruber, History of Art, authored The Timurid Book of Ascension: A Study of Text and Image in a Pan-Asian Context, published by Patrimonio Ediciones in collaboration with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Germanic Studies, edited Jakob Ruf. Leben, Werk und Studien, in five volumes with 2 CD-ROMs (Zurich: NZZ Libro 2008).

William Rasch, Chair of Germanic Studies, edited (with Wilfried Wilms) German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008.

Miryam Segal’s book A New Sound in Hebrew Poetry: Poetics, Politics, Accent is being published this month by Indiana University Press.

William E. Scheuerman, Political Science and West European Studies, authored Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law, part of the Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series, published by Routledge in 2008.

William E. Scheuerman, Political Science and West European Studies, co-edited (with Hartmut Rosa) High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity, published by Penn State University Press (2009).