Browse  ▾ How to… ▾ Poetry Prize About the Press shopping_cart search HOLIDAY SALE! 35% discount on all print books with coupon code OU35 through December 31, 2021 for arrival by Christmas, please order by December 3. 1 2 3 4 A remarkable piece of storytelling…. Henson moves between his characters’ angles of vision with aplomb, and limns the world of the novel with the verve and grit of the best cinema verité. Robert Gipe, author of Trampoline, Weedeater, and Pop NEW AND UPCOMING RELEASES The Histories of HIVs The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics Edited by William H. Schneider In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic. PUBLIC HEALTH · SOCIAL SCIENCE | DISEASE AND HEALTH ISSUES · MEDICAL | EPIDEMIOLOGY · HIV-AIDS · AFRICA · AFRICAN STUDIES Bread of the Moment Poems By David Sanders David Sanders’s second book of poems mixes free and formal verse to search for wisdom in life’s quiet moments as well as in those jolting times when our fragility is most apparent. POETRY | AMERICAN · POETRY · OHIO AND REGIONAL · LITERATURE War and Society in Colonial Zambia, 1939–1953 By Alfred Tembo The first major study of its kind, this book shows—from a Zambian perspective—how Northern Rhodesia, then a British colony, organized and deployed human, military, and natural resources during the Second World War. New research and oral histories further demonstrate the war’s social and industrial impact on Zambia in the immediate postwar period. HISTORY | AFRICA | SOUTH | GENERAL · POLITICAL SCIENCE | IMPERIALISM · WORLD WAR II · ZAMBIA · EASTERN AFRICA · SOUTH ASIA · MIDDLE EAST · AFRICAN STUDIES Africanizing Oncology Creativity, Crisis, and Cancer in Uganda By Marissa Mika Combining methods from African studies, science and technology studies, and medical anthropology, Marissa Mika considers the Uganda Cancer Institute as a microcosm of the Ugandan state and as a lens through which to trace the political, technological, moral, and intellectual aspirations and actions of health care providers and patients. SOCIAL SCIENCE | DISEASE AND HEALTH ISSUES · MEDICAL | ONCOLOGY | GENERAL · SOCIAL SCIENCE | ANTHROPOLOGY | CULTURAL & SOCIAL · UGANDA · AFRICAN STUDIES Secure the Shadow A Novel By Michael Henson Set in an unnamed midwestern city and told from multiple perspectives, Henson’s latest novel about addiction and the power of community offers an unseen portrait of the far-reaching and sometimes tragic effects of the 1990s drug crisis. FICTION | CITY LIFE · LITERATURE The Muridiyya on the Move Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Anta Babou Representations of diasporic Murid disciples often depict them as passive recipients of change wrought by powerful clerics left behind in Senegal. In this study, Cheikh Anta Babou examines the construction of their transnational collective identity and its influence on cultural practices, identities, and aspirations. EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION · HISTORY | AFRICA | WEST · SUFISM · SENEGAL · COTE D'IVOIRE · GABON · FRANCE · UNITED STATES · AFRICAN STUDIES Embodied Engineering Gendered Labor, Food Security, and Taste in Twentieth-Century Mali By Laura Ann Twagira Common narratives about development in Africa miss the critical technological work of women. Twagira’s study instead positions Malian women as rural engineers whose strategic planning and labor over the course of the twentieth century assured their food security. HISTORY | AFRICA | WEST · TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING | AGRICULTURE | SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE · BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | LABOR · WOMEN’S STUDIES · MALI · WESTERN AFRICA · AFRICAN STUDIES The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. 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IN THE PRESS Radio: Kyle Kondik on All Sides with Ann Fisher, WOSU-FM, October 6, 2021 Posted on Nov 23, 2021 for The Long Red Thread Review by the Association for Mormon Letters, October 2021 Posted on Nov 23, 2021 for The Saints and the State Review in Food, Culture & Society, February 2021 Posted on Nov 23, 2021 for The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell Review in African Studies Review 64, No. 3 (2021) Posted on Nov 23, 2021 for Africa Every Day “Black Appalachian Poetry,” Creators & Innovators series, 100 Days in Appalachia, November 18, 2021 Posted on Nov 18, 2021 for Affrilachia Kyle Kondik on CNN’s Inside Politics with John King, November 17, 2021 Posted on Nov 18, 2021 for The Long Red Thread “Six Decades of Regional Change in House Elections,” Sabato’s Crystal Ball, November 18, 2021 Posted on Nov 18, 2021 for The Long Red Thread TWEETS BY @OHIOUNIVPRESS Tweets by @OhioUnivPress HOLLIS SUMMERS POETRY PRIZE Named for the distinguished poet who taught for many years at Ohio University and made Athens, Ohio, the subject of many of his poems, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize invites writers to submit unpublished collections of original poems. The competition is open to both those who have not published a book-length collection and those who have. Congratulations to Sara Henning, winner of the 2022 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for Terra Incognita. NEW IN AFRICAN STUDIES The Histories of HIVs The Emergence of the Multiple Viruses That Caused the AIDS Epidemics Edited by William H. Schneider In this interdisciplinary collection, experts provide the most complete description to date of the often ignored and underappreciated features of the history of the multiple human immunodeficiency viruses (HIVs) responsible for the global AIDS pandemic. PUBLIC HEALTH · SOCIAL SCIENCE | DISEASE AND HEALTH ISSUES · MEDICAL | EPIDEMIOLOGY · HIV-AIDS · AFRICA · AFRICAN STUDIES The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. HISTORY | AFRICA | WEST · WOMEN’S STUDIES · COLONIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION · SOCIAL HISTORY · NIGERIA · AFRICAN STUDIES The Muridiyya on the Move Islam, Migration, and Place Making By Cheikh Anta Babou Representations of diasporic Murid disciples often depict them as passive recipients of change wrought by powerful clerics left behind in Senegal. In this study, Cheikh Anta Babou examines the construction of their transnational collective identity and its influence on cultural practices, identities, and aspirations. EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION · HISTORY | AFRICA | WEST · SUFISM · SENEGAL · COTE D'IVOIRE · GABON · FRANCE · UNITED STATES · AFRICAN STUDIES Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana By Alice Wiemers This detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS | DEVELOPMENT STUDIES · HISTORY | AFRICA | WEST · DEVELOPING & EMERGING COUNTRIES · COLONIALISM AND DECOLONIZATION · GHANA · WESTERN AFRICA · AFRICAN STUDIES NEW TRADE TITLES Fine Boys A Novel By Eghosa Imasuen Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s. FICTION | WORLD LITERATURE | AFRICA | NIGERIA · LITERARY FICTION · NIGERIA · LITERATURE · AFRICAN STUDIES Allegiance Stories By Gurney Norman Spanning forty years of work, Allegiance is an autobiography told through stories—a rich personal journey into Norman’s life, place, and consciousness. In classic short stories, lyrical meditations, folktales, dreamscapes, and stream of consciousness writing, Norman imaginatively weaves together the threads of his life. SHORT STORIES (SINGLE AUTHOR) · APPALACHIA · LITERATURE The Long Red Thread How Democratic Dominance Gave Way to Republican Advantage in US House Elections By Kyle Kondik Foreword by Douglas B. Harris Election analyst Kyle Kondik examines House elections since the 1964 Supreme Court “one person, one vote” rulings to explain the Republicans' consistent advantage from their 1994 takeover to the present. 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