AAG
Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Deadline:
31 December, yearly
A committee awards the annual
prize for a book that conveys most powerfully the nature and importance
of geography to the non-academic world. An award of $1,000 will be made
to the author(s).
Eligibility:
Books must be written or co-authored by a geographer. Books published
in calendar year 2009 are now eligible for the awards.
Submissions:
Nomination statements (two page maximum length) should provide full contact information for the author(s) and the nominator(s), including email addresses, and should document the ways
the nominated work conveys the nature and importance of geography to the
non-academic world.
Please submit nomination
statements and four copies of each nominated book to: Association of American
Geographers, attn: Globe Book Award, 1710 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington
DC 20009-3198.
Previous AAG
Globe Book Award Winners:
2008
Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H. Alderman for Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
2007
Trudy A. Suchan, Marc J. Perry, James D. Fitzsimmons, Anika E. Juhn, Alexander M. Tait and Cynthia A. Brewer, for Census Atlas of the United States. Washington, DC: US Census Bureau Press.
2006
Bruce D'Arcus, Boudaries of Dissent: Protest and State Power in the Media Age. New York, NY. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
2005
Dydia DeLyser, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern
California, University of Minnesota Press.
2004
John R. Shortridge, Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas,
University of Kansas Press.
2003
Neil Smith, American Empire, Roosevelt’s Geographer
and the Prelude to Globalization, University of California Press.
2002
Mark Monmonier, Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and Future
of Privacy. University of Chicago Press.
2001
William G. Loy, Atlas of Oregon, University of Oregon Press
2000
James R. Shortridge, Our Town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell's Photographs
of Junction City, Kansas 1893-1922 University of Kansas Press
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