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 53rd and most recent award was given on April 21, 2016 to Amir Sufi, the Bruce Lindsey Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The award is named in honor of 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 April at a ceremony at the Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago).
Recipients of the Gordon J. Laing Award
- 2016 Amir Sufi and Atif Mian
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
- 2015 Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- 2014 Alison Winter
Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
- 2013 Andreas Glaeser
Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, The Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
- 2012 Adrian D.S. Johns
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
- 2011 Robert J. Richards
The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
- 2010 Martha Feldman
Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
- 2009 Bernard Harcourt
Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
- 2008 Philip Gossett
Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
- 2006 W.J.T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
- 2004 Jonathan Hall
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
- 2003 Robert J. Richards
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
- 2002 Bruce Lincoln
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
- 2001 François Furet
The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
- 2000 James Chandler
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
- 1999 André LaCocque & Paul Ricoeur
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies
- 1998 Martin E. Marty
Modern American Religion (in three volumes)
- 1997 Marshall Sahlins
How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
- 1996 W.J.T. Mitchell
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
- 1995 Edward Laumann, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
- 1994 David McNeill
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought
- 1993 Gerald N. Rosenberg
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
- 1992 Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
- 1991 Leszek Kołakowski
Modernity on Endless Trial
- 1990 Richard G. Klein
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
- 1989 S. Chandrasekhar
Truth and Beauty
- 1988 David Grene
Herodotus: The History (translation)
- 1987 Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
The Founders' Constitution (in five volumes)
- 1986 Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas (in three volumes)
- 1985 Paul Ricoeur
Time and Narrative, Volume 1
- 1984 Richard Hellie
Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725
- 1983 Anthony C. Yu
The Journey to the West (in four volumes)
- 1982 James M. Gustafson
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics
- 1981 Wayne C. Booth
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
- 1980 Morris Janowitz
The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America
- 1979 Alan Gewirth
Reason and Morality
- 1978 Sewall Wright
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
- 1977 Marshall Sahlins
Culture and Practical Reason
- 1976 Keith Michael Baker
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
- 1975 Eric W. Cochrane
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
- 1974 Stuart M. Tave
Some Words of Jane Austen
- 1973 Edward Shils
The Intellectuals and the Powers
- 1972 Edward Wasiolek
The Notebooks of Dostoevsky (in five volumes)
- 1971 Herrlee G. Creel
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
- 1970 Gerald D. Suttles
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
- 1969 Leonard B. Meyer
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture
- 1968 Philip Foster
Education and Social Change in Ghana
- 1967 Donald F. Lach
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2
- 1966 A. Leo Oppenheim
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
- 1965 Tang Tsou
America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
- 1963 Bernard Weinberg
A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance
External links
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