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Duke Authors at the 2012 American Studies Association Annual Meeting

We were excited to sell books and mingle with our authors at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Studies Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We were pleased to kick things off with the annual Celebration of Authors featuring all the new books published. Here are some photos of authors who stopped by our booth.

Denise Cruz, author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina.

 

 

Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling and An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures.

 

Adria Imada, author of Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire. 

Erik McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.

 

John McKiernan-Gonzalez, author of Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942.

 

As usual, it's great to meet our authors in person. If you missed the meeting, you can still peruse our program ad and order online with the special 20% conference discount. See you next year in Washington, DC!

 

Congratulations to Our Authors Winning Anthropology Awards

We are thrilled to congratulate our authors who were honored with book awards at the recent annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

The Association for Queer Anthropology honored two of our authors with their Ruth Benedict Awards. Margot Weiss received the Ruth Benedict Award for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph for her book Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality. The committee was impressed by "its contributions to theories of sexualities as circuits of pleasure necessarily, though productively, ensnared in the reproduction of social norms." And Gayle Rubin received the Ruth Benedict Award for Outstanding Edited Volume for her book Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader. The committee praised the book for bringing together Rubin's important work on the ethnography of sexuality.

Danny Hoffman was also honored at the meeting. His book The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia won the 2011 Leeds Prize from the Society for Urban Anthropology. The prize is awarded to a book that uses ethnographic data from complex, transnational, urban societies in methodological innovative ways.

The Society for the Anthropology of Religion awarded Julie Chu their 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize for her book Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. The Geertz Prize seeks to encourage excellence in the anthropology of religion by recognizing an outstanding recent book in the field.

Timothy Choy's Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Gregory Bateson Prize awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

Congratulations to all these authors!

American Anthropological Association Meeting in San Francisco

We had a great time selling books and visiting with our authors at this year's annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco. Check out some great photos of our authors and their books and see even more on our Facebook page. And check back here tomorrow for a post about our authors who won awards at this year's AAA conference.

Michelle Bigenho and her book Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan.

 

Sean Brotherton, author of Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba.

 

 

Andrew Canessa, author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life.

 

 

Naisargi Dave, author of Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics.

 

 

 

Joseph Dumit, author of Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define our Health.

 

                        Melissa Fisher, author of Wall Street Women.

 

Akhil Gupta, author of Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India.

 

Naveeda Khan, author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan.

 

 

Thanks to Julie Thomson and Katie Anderson for taking the photos!

Duke Press at the Association for Asian Studies Meeting

The annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies took place in Toronto March 15-18. Editorial Director Ken Wissoker and Sales Manager Michael McCullough attended for the Press. We enjoyed selling books and meeting our authors.

Yomi Braester, author of Painting the City Red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Condry, author of Hip-Hop Japan and The Soul of Anime (forthcoming Spring 2013). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kyung Hyun Kim, author of Virtual Hallyu. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Madeleine Yue Dong, co-editor of The Modern Girl around the World.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yasmin Saikia, author of Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh and Fragmented Memories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robin Visser, author of Cities Surround the Countryside.

American Anthropological Association, 2011

We had a terrific meeting in Montreal this year, where we enjoyed selling books, meeting authors, and celebrating our journal Public Culture at a wine and cheese party.

Jafari Allen and his book ¡Venceremos?: The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Choy and his book Ecologies of Comparison: An

Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong.

 

Kregg Hetherington and his book Guerrilla Auditors: The Politics of Transparency in Neoliberal Paraguay.

 

 

 

 

Carole McGranahan and her book Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War

 

 

 

For mor photos, please visit our Facebook page. Thanks to Helena Knox for taking them.

American Studies Association, 2011

We had a great time in Baltimore at the American Studies Association annual meeting this past weekend. Ken Wissoker, Christine Choi, and Helena Knox attended for the Press. Many of our authors stopped by and Helena got a few pictures of them.

Anne Balsamo with her book Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work.

 

 

Sylvia Chong and her book The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era.

 

 

 

 

Kevin Fellezs and his book Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion.

 

 

Erik McDuffie with Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism.

 

 

 

See more photos on our Facebook page!

Duke Authors at the Association for Asian American Studies 2011 Meeting

We had a great time at the 2011 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in New Orleans, LA, May 18th-21st. Here are photos of some of the authors who stopped by our booth and from Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu's book launch party.

   

 

Margo Machida, author of Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary

 

 

 

 

Eleana J. Kim, author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

 

 

 

 

Junaid Rana, author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, at her book party sponsored by the Center for Asian American Studies at UT-Austin.

 

 

 

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu and Nhi Lieu, author of The American Dream in Vietnamese (Minnesota), pose together at their book party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to our editorial associate, Christine Choi, for taking these photos!

Duke Press at Book Expo

This week we've been hobnobbing with other publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, and media at the annual Book Expo America in New York City. Our marketing team has been pitching our Fall 2011 books and meeting with various vendors who manage our metadata and help us get our books out into the world electronically. We also meet with some of our sales representatives and enjoy catching up with our favorite booksellers. The New York Times reports on the convention here, saying "there is a Wild West quality to the book business these days." Academic publishing moves more slowly than commercial publishing, but we do feel like we have a lot to figure out about our future, and it's good to connect with the rest of the industry once a year and see where we stand. Below, you can see some of the general interest highlights from our Fall catalog that we were featuring in our booth.

 

Benjamin Lowy's pictures from Iraq won the 5th Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography. 

 

Foreign affairs expert Swanee Hunt draws lessons for global security from her time spent as an activist for peace and women's rights in Bosnia.

 

 

Orrin H. Pilkey and Keith C. Pilkey make the science of global climate change accessible to a general audience in this beautiful book with batik illustrations by Mary Edna Fraser.

 

Rock critic Chuck Eddy collects some of his best pieces a quarter-century of writing about music.

 

 

 

Jake Austen, author of the offbeat music zine Roctober, collects some its best profiles and interviews.

 

 

Dana Polan writes a cultural history of Julia Child's beloved television show The French Chef.

 

 

Queer theorist Judith Halberstam writes playfully about such films as Dude, Where's My Car and Finding Nemo as she develops the concept of "low theory."

 

Check out these and all our Fall 2011 titles on our website!

 

Duke Authors at the Association for Asian Studies Conference

We had a great time at the 2011 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Honolulu, HI, March 31st-April 3rd. Here are photos of some of the authors who stopped by our booth.

 

 

Rochona Majumdar, author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal

 

 

 

 

Mark Driscoll, author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945

 

 

 

 

Jesook Song, author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society

 

 

 

 

Angela Ki Che Leung and Charlotte Furth, editors of Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Poliices in the Long Twentieth Century

 

 

 

Thanks to our exhibits manager, Helena Knox, for taking these photos.

Duke Authors at the College Art Association 2011 Meeting

We had a great time at the 2011 Annual Conference of the College Art Association in New York, NY, February 10th-12th. Here are some photos of the many authors who stopped by our booth.

 

 

Carolee Schneemann, author of Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and her Circle

 

 

 

 

John P. Bowles, author of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment

 

 

 

 

Kellie Jones, author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Lacy, author of Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974-2007

 

 

 

 

Mira Schor, author of A Decade of Negative Thinking: Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life

 

 

 Authors MIra Schor and Suzanne Lacy

 

 

Wanda Corn and Cherise Smith, author of Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

 

Maria Elena Buszek, editor of Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art

 

 

 

Thanks to our exhibits manager, Helena M. Knox, for these photos!