Two Books to Receive San Antonio Conservation Society Award

The San Antonio Conservation Society is giving a 2009 Citation to two of our books: Espiritu Santo de Zuniga: A Frontier Mission in South Texas by Tamra Lynn Walter, and House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's Cafeterias, by Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston. Congratulations to these authors!

Author Receives University Award

October 2008: Denise Schmandt-Besserat received the University Co-op Robert W. Hamilton Award for best book published by a University of Texas faculty or staff member for her book When Writing Met Art. The Press is honored to have been able to publish this book, and we congratulate Professor Schmandt-Besserat on her award.

Book Receives Western Writing Award

September 2008: What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest by Susan Witting Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, and Paula Stallings Yost has been selected as the 2008 Winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction. The WILLA awards are sponsored by Women Writing the West.

Book on Yemen Wins Award

August 2008: A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen, by Shelagh Weir, has won the British-Kuwait Friendship Prize in Middle Eastern Studies, coordinated by BRISMES (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies).

Other Major Awards for UT Press Authors

Willie Wells by Bob Luke
Robert Peterson Recognition Award
Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference

A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove by Bill Wittliff
Will Rogers Medallion Award

Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles, 2008:

• Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity by Cynthia J. Becker
• "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear by Tim Jon Semmerling
• Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson
• Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America by William Anthony Nericcio

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