Awards

A History of Georgetown University Press: The Complete Three-Volume Set, 1789-1989
Robert Emmett Curran
• Best in Show, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2011
• First Place, Illustrated Text, Large Nonprofit Publishers, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2011

Alif Baa: An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Third Edition
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, and Abbas Al-Tonsi
• First Place, Technical Text, Large Nonprofit Publishers, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2011

After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver
Norman L. Cantor
• First Place, Illustrated Cover, Large Nonprofit Publishers, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2011
• Honorable Mention, 2010 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Law and Legal Studies

An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic and Culture
Abdellah Chekayri
• Second Place, Illustrated Cover, Large Nonprofit Publishers, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2011

Where is Knowing Going?: The Horizons of the Knowing Subject
John Haughey, SJ
• Winner of the 2010 Catholic Press Association Award: First Place in Education

Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces
Steven R. Ward
• Selected Entry for Jackets/Covers, 2010 American Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show

Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History
Charles Curran
• Winner of the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religion
• First Place, Best Book in History, Catholic Press Association 2009 Book Awards
•2nd Place, Large Nonprofit, Illustrated Covers or Jackets, Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2009
• Winner of the 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religion

The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology
Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler
• First Place, Best Book in Theology, Catholic Press Association 2009 Book Awards

Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedānta Deśika on Loving Surrender to God
Francis X. Clooney, SJ
• Second Place, Best Book in Theology, Catholic Press Association 2009 Book Awards

Governance in Dark Times: Practical Philosophy for Public Service
Camilla Stivers
• Winner of the 2008 Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference
Gerard W. Boychuk
• Winner of the 2009 Donald V. Smiley Prize for the best book in political science from the Canadian Political Science Association

The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform
Donald P. Moynihan
• Winner of the 2009 Best Book Award from the Public and Non-Profit Division of the Academy of Management

How Management Matters: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Welfare Reform
Norma M. Riccucci
• Winner of the 2009 Herbert A. Simon Best Book Awardfrom the American Political Science Association

Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa
David Hollenbach, SJ, Editor
• 1st Place, Large Nonprofit, Illustrated Covers or Jackets
Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2009

Bonds of Affection: Civic Charity and the Making of America—Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln
Matthew S. Holland
• Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine

Working World: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development
Sherry L. Mueller, Mark Overmann
• Finalist for Foreword Magazine’s 2008 Career Book of the Year Award

Managing within Networks: Adding Value to Public Organizations
Robert Agranoff
• Winner of the 2008 Best Book Award, given by the Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration
• Winner of the Best Book Award from the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management

The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither Federalism?
Paul L. Posner
• Winner of the 2008 Martha Derthick Best Book Award, given by the Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Management of the American Political Science Association

Medieval Islamic Medicine
Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith
• Joint Winner of the 2007 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize for Middle Eastern Studies

Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War
David L. Clough and Brian Stiltner
•Second Place, Best Book in Theology, Catholic Press Association 2008 Book Awards

John Cuthbert Ford, SJ: Moral Theologian at the End of the Manualist Era
Eric Marcelo O. Genilo, SJ
• Honorable Mention, Book by a First-Time Author, Catholic Press Association 2008 Book Awards

United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response
Thomas J. Massaro, SJ
• Honorable Mention, Best Book on Social Concerns, Catholic Press Association 2008 Book Awards

The Sanctity of Human Life
David Novak
•1st Place, Large Nonprofit, Typographical Covers or Jackets
Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2008

African American Bioethics: Culture, Race, and Identity
Lawrence J. Prograis Jr., MD, and Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Editors
• 1st Place, Large Nonprofit, Illustrated Covers or Jackets
Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2008

Agenda Setting, the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights
Jutta M. Joachim
•3rd Place, Large Nonprofit, Typographical Covers or Jackets
Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2008

Analyzing the Grammar of English, Third Edition
Richard V. Teschner and Eston E. Evans
• 3rd Place, Large Nonprofit, Typographical Text
Washington Book Publishers Book Design and Effectiveness Awards 2008

Ronald Leow, editor of Little Words, has been awarded the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese

Paul Posner, author of The Politics of Unfunded Mandates, hasbeen awarded the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association

Beryl Radin, series editor of the Public Management and Change series received the Public Management Research Association's career achievement award

Robert Veatch, GU Press board member and author of Transplantation Ethics, will be awarded a lifetime achievement award by the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities in 2008

Georgetown University Press
• # 3, Top Ten Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For in the United States 2008 as selected by Book Business Magazine