The First Book Prize
Award Description:
The Awards Committee of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites authors to compete for the first annual CSA Prize for a First Book, which will be awarded for an outstanding scholarly work published in the previous calendar year as the first book-length publication by a current member of the association.
To qualify for this year’s prize, a book must have a copyright date in the calendar year prior to the conference and be peer-reviewed. It must be the author’s first book. Collaborative and multi-authored books are eligible but scholarly editions, collections of essays, anthologies, and similar edited volumes are ineligible.
Books will be judged on how well they advance and extend the reach of cultural studies as a field, as a method of inquiry, and as an intellectual/political project. The prize, which consists of one year’s waived membership and registration fees to the CSA and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the Association's annual convention.
Submission Process:
To enter a book into the competition, authors or publishers should send an electronic copy of the book, author’s CV, and confirmation of the author's membership in the CSA to Michelle Fehsenfeld: a[email protected] and Rob Carley, Governing Board member: [email protected]. Publishers may enter more than one title for consideration. Entries may be sent at any time by May 3, 2024. The winner will be announced during the annual meeting, this year to be held May 30, 2024 through June 1, 2024.
The Awards Committee of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA) invites authors to compete for the first annual CSA Prize for a First Book, which will be awarded for an outstanding scholarly work published in the previous calendar year as the first book-length publication by a current member of the association.
To qualify for this year’s prize, a book must have a copyright date in the calendar year prior to the conference and be peer-reviewed. It must be the author’s first book. Collaborative and multi-authored books are eligible but scholarly editions, collections of essays, anthologies, and similar edited volumes are ineligible.
Books will be judged on how well they advance and extend the reach of cultural studies as a field, as a method of inquiry, and as an intellectual/political project. The prize, which consists of one year’s waived membership and registration fees to the CSA and a certificate, will be presented to the winning author at the Association's annual convention.
Submission Process:
To enter a book into the competition, authors or publishers should send an electronic copy of the book, author’s CV, and confirmation of the author's membership in the CSA to Michelle Fehsenfeld: a[email protected] and Rob Carley, Governing Board member: [email protected]. Publishers may enter more than one title for consideration. Entries may be sent at any time by May 3, 2024. The winner will be announced during the annual meeting, this year to be held May 30, 2024 through June 1, 2024.
AWARD WINNERS:
Lucia Hulsether, Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke University Press), 2024
Arjun Shankar (Honorable Mention), Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India (Duke University Press), 2024
Eric Morales-Franceschini, The Epic of Cuba Libre: the mambi, mythopoetics, and liberation (University of Virginia Press), 2023
Josef Nguyen, The Digital is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy (University of Minnesota Press), 2022
Alyson Spurgas, Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (Ohio State University Press), 2021
Lucia Hulsether, Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke University Press), 2024
Arjun Shankar (Honorable Mention), Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India (Duke University Press), 2024
Eric Morales-Franceschini, The Epic of Cuba Libre: the mambi, mythopoetics, and liberation (University of Virginia Press), 2023
Josef Nguyen, The Digital is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy (University of Minnesota Press), 2022
Alyson Spurgas, Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century (Ohio State University Press), 2021
