Judging for the 2009 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show took place January 22-23, 2009 at the AAUP Central Office in New York City. Approximately 289 books, 292 jackets and covers, and 7 journals were entered. From this pool of excellent design, the jurors chose 53 books, 1 journal, and 36 jackets/covers as the very best examples.The 2009 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show premiered at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, June 18-21, 2009.
2009 Show Committee
Betsy Litz, Princeton University Press, Chair
John Cronin, Johns Hopkins University Press
James Dunn, Sr., Cambridge University Press
Dariel Mayer, Vanderbilt University Press
Maya Rhodes, Wayne State University Press
Lou Robinson, Cornell University Press
Ashley Saleeba, University of Washington Press
Kathleen Szawiola, University of Nevada Press
2009 Show Jurors
Book and Journal Interior Design
Nicole Hayward, Former Art Director, University of California Press
Frank Mahood, Former Senior Designer, Princeton University Press*
Book and Journal Jacket Design
Deb Wood, Design Director, Princeton Architectural Press
Harry Sene Ye, Creative Director, Picador Books
*Frank Mahood took the place of Richard Hendel who, due to unforeseen
circumstances, could not be a juror for the show this year.
Acknowledgments
The Association and the 2009 Show Committee extend our thanks to Friesens Corporation for the catalog printing; IBT Global for printing the call-for-entries; and Dariel Mayer for designing the call-for-entries.
Selected Entries
Scholarly Typographic
The University of Chicago Press
Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz by Georges Didi-Huberman, translated by Shane B. Lillis
Designer: Maia Wright
Production Coordinator: Christina Samuell
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Joel Score
Columbia University Press
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America by Frederick Douglass Opie
Designer: Vin Dang
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Acquiring Editor: Jennifer Crewe
Project Editor: Ron Harris
Columbia University Press
Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home by Ann Armbrecht
Designer: Martin N. Hinze
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Acquiring Editor: Anne Routon
Project Editor: Irene Pavitt
Duke University Press
Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being by Brian Rotman
Designer/Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Mark Mastromarino
Duke University Press
CT Suite: The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting by Barry F. Saunders
Designer/Production Coordinator: Amy Ruth Buchanan
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Molly Balikov
Duke University Press
Hans Staden’s True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil by Hans Staden, edited and translated by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier
Designer/Production Coordinator: Heather Hensley
Acquiring Editor: Reynolds Smith
Project Editor: Fred Kameny
Duke University Press
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbemb, Editors
Designer/Production Coordinator: Cherie Westmoreland
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Molly Balikov
Duke University Press
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software by Christopher M. Kelty
Designer/Production Coordinator: Cherie Westmoreland
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Pam Morrison
University of Notre Dame Press
Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles
Designer/Production Coordinator: Wendy McMillen
Acquiring Editor: Barbara Hanrahan
Project Editor: Rebecca DeBoer
Oxford University Press
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B Irvine
Designer: Jack Donner
Production Coordinator: Luis Paredes
Acquiring Editor: Cybele Tom
Project Editor: Christine Dahlin
Penn State University Press
A World Art History and Its Objects by David Carrier
Designer: Steve Kress
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Eleanor Goodman
Project Editor: John Morris
Princeton University Press
Shakespeare by Johann Gottfried Herder, translated, edited, and with an Introduction by Gregory Moore
Designer: Pamela Schnitter
Production Coordinator: Betsy Litz
Acquiring Editor: Ian Malcolm
Project Editor: Lauren Lepow
University of Washington Press
The Fishermen’s Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska by David F. Arnold
Designer/Production Coordinator: Pamela Canell
Acquiring Editor: Julidta Tarver
Project Editor: Marilyn Trueblood
Scholarly Illustrated
The University of Chicago Press
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture by Richard J. Powell
Designer: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: Christina Samuell
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Joel Score
The University of Chicago Press
The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow annotated by Debórah Dwork
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Sylvia Mendoza Hecimovich
Acquiring Editor: Alan Thomas
Project Editor: Anita Samen
Columbia University Press
Four Jews on Parnassus—A Conversation: Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, Schönberg by Carl Djerassi
Designer: Chang Jae Lee
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Acquiring Editor: Jennifer Crewe
Project Editor: Susan Pensak
Duke University Press
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary by Margo Machida
Designer/Production Coordinator: Cherie Westmoreland
Acquiring Editor: Ken Wissoker
Project Editor: Molly Balikov
Getty Publications
California Video: Artists and Histories by Glenn Phillips, Editor
Designer: Stuart Smith
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Kahn
Acquiring Editor: Glenn Phillips
Project Editor: Tobi Kaplan
The MIT Press
The Big Archive: Art From Bureaucracy by Sven Spieker
Designer: Margarita Encomienda
Production Coordinator: Janet Rossi
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Project Editor: Matthew Abbate
National Gallery of Art
Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered by Arthur Wheelock, et al.
Designer/Production Coordinator: Chris Vogel
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Tam Curry Bryfogle
National Gallery of Art
Looking In: Robert Frank’s “The Americans” by Sarah Greenough, et al.
Designer: Margaret Bauer
Production Coordinator: Chris Vogel
Acquiring Editor: Judy Metro
Project Editor: Tam Curry Bryfogle
Penn State University Press
The Drama of the Portrait: Theater and Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain by Laura R. Bass
Designer: Diane Jaroch
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Gloria Kury
Project Editor: Peggy Hoover
Penn State University Press
Dosso Dossi: Paintings of Myth, Magic, and the Antique by Giancarlo Fiorenza
Designer: Garet Markvoort
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Acquiring Editor: Gloria Kury
Project Editor: Cherene Holland
University of Washington Press
Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef
Designer/Production Coordinator: Ashley Saleeba
Acquiring Editor: Naomi Pascal
Project Editor: Marilyn Trueblood
Trade Typographic
The University of Chicago Press
Collections of Nothing by William Davies King
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joan Davies
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Joel Score
Minnesota Historical Society Press/Borealis Books
Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants by Steve Lerach
Designer: Percolator
Production Coordinator: Will Powers
Acquiring Editor: Greg Britton
Project Editor: Mike Hanson
University of Nebraska Press
Corkscrewed: Adventures in the New French Wine Country by Robert V. Camuto
Designer: Ashley Muehlbauer
Production Coordinator: Alison Rold
Acquiring Editor: Heather Lundine
Project Editor: Ann Baker
University of Nevada Press
Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark by Paul Bogard
Designer/Production Coordinator: Kathleen Szawiola
Acquiring Editor: Joanne O’Hare
Project Editor: Sara Vélez Mallea
Princeton University Press
Privacy: A Manifesto by Wolfgang Sofsky
Designer: Pamela Schnitter
Production Coordinator: Sharyn Zasada
Acquiring Editor: Ben Tate
Project Editor: Jill Harris
Texas Tech University Press
Cowboy Park: Steer-Roping Contests on the Border by John O. Baxter
Designer: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Barbara Werden
Acquiring Editor: Judith Keeling
Project Editor: Karen Medlin
Trade Illustrated
The University of Alberta Press
Brilliant Strokes: Chinese Paintings from the Mactaggart Art Collection by Ka Bo Tsang
Designer/Production Coordinator: Alan Brownoff
Acquiring Editor: Linda Cameron
Project Editor: Margaret Barry
University of California Press
Douglas Fairbanks by Jeffrey Vance
Designer: Claudia Smelser
Production Coordinator: Sam Rosenthal
Acquiring Editor: May Francis
Project Editor: Dore Brown
The University of Chicago Press
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age by Neil Harris
Designer: Maia Wright
Production Coordinator: Sylvia Hecimovich
Acquiring Editor: Robert Devens
Project Editor: Ruth Goring
The University of Chicago Press
Sleeping Beauty: A One-Artist Dictionary by John Sparagana and Mieke Bal
Designer: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: David O’Connor
Acquiring Editor: Susan Bielstein
Project Editor: Rebecca Sullivan
Columbia University Press
All the Art That’s Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn’t): Inside The New York Times Op-Ed Page by Jerelle Kraus
Designer: Jena Sher
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Acquiring Editor: Jennifer Crewe
Project Editor: Irene Pavitt
The MIT Press
Big Box Reuse by Julia Christensen
Designer: Patrick Ciano
Production Coordinator: Theresa M. Lamoureux
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Project Editor: Kathleen A. Caruso
The MIT Press
Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art by Jennifer A. González
Designer: Derek George
Production Coordinator: Theresa M. Lamoureux
Acquiring Editor: Roger Conover
Project Editor: Kathy Caruso
University of Minnesota Press
The Face of Minnesota by John Szarkowski
Designer: Sara Eisenman
Production Coordinator: Daniel Ochsner
Acquiring Editor/Project Editor: Todd Orjala
The Museum of Modern Art
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen
Designer: Naomi Mizusaki
Production Coordinator: Christina Grillo
Acquiring Editor: Christopher Hudson
Project Editor: Ron Broadhurst
The Museum of Modern Art
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937 by Anne Umland, et al.
Designer: Margaret Bauer
Production Coordinator: Elisa Frohlich
Acquiring Editor: Christopher Hudson
Project Editor: Emily Hall
University of Texas Press
Kilgore Rangerettes by O. Rufus Lovett
Designer: DJ Stout and Julie Savasky / Pentagram Austin
Production Coordinator: Ellen McKie
Acquiring Editor: William Bishel
Project Editor: Lynne Chapman
University of Texas Press
Still: Cowboys at the Start of the Twenty-First Century by Robb Kendrick
Designer: Teresa W. Wingfield
Production Coordinator: David S. Cavazos
Acquiring Editor: Theresa J. May
Project Editor: Leslie Tingle
Yale University Press
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe by K. Michael Hays and Dana A. Miller
Designer: Jean Wilcox, Wilcox Design
Production Coordinator: Mary Mayer
Acquiring Editor: Patricia Fidler
Project Editor: Kate Zanzucchi
Yale University Press
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity by Susan Danly
Designer: Margaret Bauer
Production Coordinator: Mary Mayer
Acquiring Editor: Michelle Komie
Project Editor: Laura Jones Dooley
Poetry and Literature
University of California Press
Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop
Designer: Lia Tjandra
Production Coordinator: Robin Demers
Acquiring Editor/Project Editor: Rachel Berschten
The University of Chicago Press
Voices from Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China by Irene Eber, Editor and Translator
Designer: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: Christina Samuell
Acquiring Editor: Randy Petilos
Project Editor: Michael Koplow
The University of Georgia Press
The Theory of Light and Matter by Andrew Porter
Designer: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Walton Harris
Acquiring Editor: Erika Stevens
Project Editor: Courtney Denney
Indiana University Press
Bloodroot: Indiana Poems by Norbert Krapf
Designer: Jamison Cockerham
Production Coordinator: Bernadette Zoss
Acquiring Editor: Linda Oblack
Project Editor: June Silay
University of Virginia Press
All That Mighty Heart: London Poems by Lisa Russ Spaar, Editor
Designer: Louise Ofarrell
Production Coordinator: Brooke Kelley
Acquiring Editor: Cathie Brettschneider
Project Editor: Ellen Satrom
Reference
The University of Georgia Press
Frogs and Toads of the Southeast by Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons
Designer: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Walton Harris
Acquiring Editor: Judy Purdy
Project Editor: Jennifer Reichlin
Indiana University Press
Home Grown Indiana: A Food Lover’s Guide to Good Eating in the Hoosier State
by Christine Barbour and Scott Hutcheson
Designer: Jamison Cockerham
Production Coordinator: Bernadette Zoss
Acquiring Editor: Janet Rabinowitch
Project Editor: Brian Herrmann
Indiana University Press
Perennials Short and Tall: A Seasonal Progression of Flowers for Your Garden by Moya L. Andrews
Designer: Pamela Rude
Production Coordinator: Bernadette Zoss
Acquiring Editor: Linda Oblack
Project Editor: Miki Bird
University of Washington Press
The Informed Gardener by Linda Chalker-Scott
Designer/Production Coordinator: Ashley Saleeba
Acquiring Editor: Jacqueline Ettinger
Project Editor: Kerrie Maynes
Journals
Duke University Press
Public Culture
Designer: Sue Hall
Production Coordinator: Terri Fizer
Acquiring Editor: Plaegian Alexander
Project Editors: Ray Lambert, Chris Mazzara
Jackets and Covers
The University of Alberta Press/AU Press
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 by Sarah Carter
Designer/Art Director: Alan Brownoff
Production Coordinator: Alan Brownoff
The University of Arizona Press
House of Houses by Pat Mora
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Harrison Shaffer
University of British Columbia Press
Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought by Rod Preece
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Anna Friedlander
University of California Press
Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine by Marion Nestle
Designer/Art Director: Lia Tjandra
Production Coordinator: Pam Augspurger
The University of Chicago Press
Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America by Barry Schwartz
Designer/Art Director: Matt Avery
Production Coordinator: Christina Samuell
The University of Chicago Press
Islam and the West: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida by Mustapha Chérif, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
Designer: Dustin Kilgore
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joseph Claude
The University of Chicago Press
Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England by Jennifer Summit
Designer: Natalie F. Smith
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joseph Claude
The University of Chicago Press
Obsession: A History by Lennard J. Davis
Designers: Isaac Tobin and Lauren Nassef
Art Director: Jill Shimabukuro
Production Coordinator: Joseph Claude
Columbia University Press
Art’s Claim to Truth by Gianni Vattimo edited by Santiago Zabalal, translated by Luca D’Isanto
Designer/Art Director: Chang Jae Lee
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
Columbia University Press
Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View by Alison Griffiths
Designer: Martin N. Hinze
Art Director: Linda Secondari
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Jerome
University Press of Florida
Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut by Paul R. Mullins
Designer/Art Director: Larry Leshan
Production Coordinator: David Graham
The University of Georgia Press
The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
by Julie Buckner Armstrong and Amy Schmidt, Editors
Designer/Art Director: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
The University of Georgia Press
Drowning Lessons by Peter Selgin
Designer/Art Director: Anne Richmond Boston
Production Coordinator: Walton Harris
The University of Georgia Press
Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835 by Cedrick May
Designer/Art Director: Mindy Basinger Hill
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
The University of Georgia Press
Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present by Pippa Holloway, Editor
Designer/Art Director: Erin Kirk New
Production Coordinator: Kathi Dailey Morgan
Indiana University Press
Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King by Peter Larson and Kenneth Carpenter, Editors
Designer/Art Director: Jamison Cockerham
Production Coordinator: Bernadette Zoss
The MIT Press
Big Box Reuse by Julia Christensen
Designer/Art Director: Patrick Ciano
Production Coordinator: Theresa M. Lamoureux
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Canadian Water Politics: Conflicts and Institutions by Mark Sproule-Jones, Carolyn Johns, and B. Timothy Heinmiller, Editors
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Secession and Self: Quebec in Canadian Thought by Gregory Millard
Designer/Art Director: Heng Wee Tan
Production Coordinator: Susanne McAdam
University of Minnesota Press
The Devil Notebooks by Laurence A. Rickels
Designer/Art Director: Salamander Hill Design
Production Coordinator: Rachel Moeller
University Press of Mississippi
History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels by Mark McKinney, Editor
Designer/Art Director: Todd Lape
Production Coordinator: Todd Lape
University of Nebraska
Valentines by Ted Kooser
Designer/Art Director: Annie Shahan
Production Coordinator: Carolyn Einspahr
University Press of New England/Northeastern University Press
Execution’s Doorstep: True Stories of the Innocent and Near Damned by Leslie Lytle
Designer/Art Director: The DesignWorks Group, Charles Brock
Production Coordinator: Douglas Tifft
New York University Press
After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors by Emily K. Abel and Saskia Subramanian
Designer/Art Director: David Drummond
Production Coordinator: Charles B. Hames
Penn State University Press
The Commonwealth of Nature: Art and Poetic Community in the Age of Dante by C. Jean Campbell
Designer/Art Director: Jason Harvey
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Penn State University Press
For the Love of Murphy’s: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer by Jason Togyer
Desginer/Art Director: Regina Starace
Production Coordinator: Jennifer Norton
Princeton University Press
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
Designer/Art Director: Marcella Roberts
Production Coordinator: Sharyn Zasada
Princeton University Press
Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee by Bee Wilson
Designer/Art Director: Lorraine Betz Doneker
Production Coordinator: Sharyn Zasada
Purdue University Press
A Fish in the Moonlight: Growing Up in the Bone Marrow Unit by Sidney R. Homan
Designer/Art Director: Faris Habayeb
Production Coordinator: Bryan Shaffer
Texas Tech University Press
Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature by Tom Lynch
Designer/Art Director: Lindsay Starr
Production Coordinator: Barbara Werden
University of Washington Press
Two Kinds of Time by Graham Peck
Designer/Art Director: Thomas Eykemans
Production Coordinator: Thomas Eykemans
University of Washington Press
Yellowfish: A Novel by John Keeble
Designer/Art Director: Thomas Eykemans
Production Coordinator: Thomas Eykemans
Wayne State University Press
Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream by M. L. Liebler
Designer/Art Director: Gary Grimshaw
Production Coordinator: Maya Rhodes
Yale University Press
Five Spice Street by Can Xue
Designer/Art Director: Nancy Ovedovitz
Production Coordinator: Aldo Cupo
Yale University Press
The Polemics of Possession in Spanish American Narrative by Rolena Adorno
Designer/Art Director: James J. Johnson
Production Coordinator: Karen Stickler
Yale University Press
We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law by Alexander Tsesis
Designer/Art Director: Jeff Miller; The DesignWorks Group
Production Coordinator: Aldo Cupo