Recent Award News

We're pleased to announce some exciting awards recently won by MIT Press titles:

     

 

 

 

 

 

Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism by Gabriella Blum and Phillip B. Heymann has won the 2010 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

This prize was established in 2007 by Chicago-Kent alumnus Roy C. Palmer and his wife, Susan. Palmer, to honor an exemplary work of scholarship exploring the tension between civil liberties and national security in contemporary American society. Previous prize recipients include David D. Cole and Jules L. Lobel for their book Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror (The New Press); Harold H. Bruff for Bad Advice: The President’s Lawyers in the War on Terrorism (University Press of Kansas); and Scott M. Matheson, Jr., for Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times (Harvard University Press).

 

Megan Mullin’s Governing the Tap: Special District Governance and the New Local Politics of Water has won the 2010 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for the best book published on environmental politics and policy, given by the American Political Science Association’s Science, Technology, & Environment section.  The award committee chair stated, "There were over 35 nominations for this year's award, and the committee had a difficult time choosing among the top books.  However, we agreed that your book stood out for its impressive research and the important contributions that it will make to your field."

 

Carl Rasmussen’s Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning won the 2009 DeGroot Prize for the best book in statistical science, awarded by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. The prize was announced at the Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics.

 

D.G. Webster’s Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management    won the 2010 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book published on international environmental affairs, given by the International Studies Association. The Sprout Award was established in 1972 and named in honor of two pioneers in the study of international environmental problems. The award is given annually to the best book in the field – one that makes a contribution to theory and interdisciplinarity, shows rigor and coherence in research and writing, and offers accessibility and practical relevance.

Mark Brown’s Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions and Representation received honorable mention for the 2010 First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association.

 

Congratulations to our winning authors!