The Professor Robert W. Hamilton Book Author Award is presented annually to the best book-length publication by a staff or faculty member of the University of Texas at Austin. It is chosen by a committee of various disciplines, who in turn were chosen by the Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin.

All nominated books are honored at a ceremony, in addition to the prizewinners. $10,000 is awarded to the first prize winner, with four additional $3,000 prizes.

Past winners

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2022: Peniel E. Joseph, Department of History, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr
2020: Elizabeth McCracken, Department of English, Bowlaway: A Novel
2019: Geraldine Heng, Department of English, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
2018: Daina Ramey Berry, Department of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation
2017: Jordan Steiker, School of Law, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment
2016: Charles Ramirez Berg, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films
2015: Stephennie F. Mulder, Department of Art and Art History, The Shrines of the ‘Alids in Medieval Syria: Sunnis, Shi’is, and the Architecture of Coexistence
2014: Denise A. Spellberg, Department of History, Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders
2013: Julia E. Guernsey, Department of Art and Art History, Sculpture and Social Dynamics in Preclassic Mesoamerica
2012: James W. Pennebaker, Department of Psychology, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
2011: L. Michael White, Department of Classics, Scripting Jesus: The Gospels in Rewrite
2010: Shirley E. Thompson, Department of American Studies, Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans
2009: Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, School of Law, Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
2008: Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Departments of Art and Art History and Middle Eastern Studies, When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story
2007: Evan Carton, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts, Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America^[1]
2006: L. Michael White, Department of Classics, College of Liberal Arts, From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith^[2]
2005: Eric R. Pianka, Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor in Zoology, Section of Integrative Biology, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity^[3]
2004: Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Kay Forston Chair in European Art, Department of Art and Art History, Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany^[4]
2003: Philip Bobbitt, A. W. Walker Centennial Chair, School of Law, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History^[5]
2002: Mounira M. Charrad, Professor of Sociology, States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco^[6]
2001: Lucas A. Powe Jr., Professor of Law, The Warren Court and American Politics^[7]
2000: A. P. Martinich, Professor of Philosophy, Hobbes: A Biography^[8]
1999: Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Professor of Art & Art History, Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works^[9]
1998: Neil F. Foley, Associate Professor of History, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture^[10]
1997: Robert H. Kane, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy, The Significance of Free Will^[11]

Bibliography

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^ Carton, Evan (2006). Patriotic Treason: John Brown and the Soul of America. New York: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-7136-3.
^ White, L. Michael (2004). From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith. San Francisco: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-052655-9.
^ Pianka, Eric R.; Vitt, Laurie J. (2003). Lizards. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-23401-7.
^ Chipps Smith, Jeffrey (2002). Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09072-6.
^ Bobbitt, Philip (2002). The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History. New York: Alfred Knopf. ISBN 0-385-72138-2.
^ Charrad, Mounira M. (2001). States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-07323-4.
^ Powe, Lucas A. (2000). The Warren Court and American Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00095-1.
^ Martinich, Aloysius (1999). Hobbes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-49583-7.
^ Henderson, Linda Dalrymple (1998). Duchamp in Context: Science and Technology in the Large Glass and Related Works. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-05551-3.
^ Foley, Neil (1997). The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20724-0.
^ Kane, Robert H. (1999). The Significance of Free Will. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0195126564.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-512656-3.

External links

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Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards Winners