Gordon J. Laing Award
The Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press. The first award was given in 1963 and the 56th and most recent award was given on April 25, 2019 to Deborah Nelson, the Helen B. and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of English and the College at the University of Chicago. The award is named in honor of Gordon Jennings Laing, the scholar who, serving  as general editor of the Press from 1909 until 1940, firmly established the character and reputation of the Press as the premier academic publisher in the United States. The award is presented each spring at a ceremony at the Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago). "Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side" "Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil" Recipients of the Gordon J. Laing Award. "Down, Out, & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row" "Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today" "House of Debt: How They  (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again" "I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" "Memory: Fragments of a Modern History" "Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, The Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism" "Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates" "The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought" "Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy" "Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age" "Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera" "What Do Pictures Want ?: The Lives and Loves of Images" "A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature" "Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture" "The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe" "Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship" "The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century" "England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism" "Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies" "Modern American Religion" (in three volumes) "How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example" "Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation" "The Social Organization of Sexuality : Sexual Practices in the United States" "Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought" "The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?" "On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa" "Modernity on Endless Trial" "The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins" "Truth and Beauty" "Herodotus: The History" (translation) "The Founders' Constitution" (in five volumes) "A History of Religious Ideas" (in three volumes) "Time and Narrative, Volume 1" "Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725" "The Journey to the West" (in four volumes) "Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics" "Critical Understanding: The  Powers and Limits of Pluralism" "The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America" "Reason and Morality" "Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions" "Culture and Practical Reason" "Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics" "Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes" "Some Words of Jane Austen" "The Intellectuals and the Powers" "The Notebooks of Dostoevsky" (in five volumes) "The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire" "The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory  in the Inner City" "Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture" "Education and Social Change in Ghana" "Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2" "Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization" "America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950" "The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community" "A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance" External links. University of Chicago http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/laing.shtml University of Chicago Press http://www.press.uchicago.edu