Duke to publish work by
S. Ann Dunham, the mother
of President Barack Obama

S. Ann Dunham in Bali in the early 1990s.
Photo courtesy of Bron Solyom

In December 2009, Duke University Press will publish Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, by S. Ann Dunham. The book is based upon the dissertation Dunham completed at the University of Hawaii in 1992.

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Our Caribbean wins Lammy

Our Caribbean, edited by Thomas Glave, has been awarded a 2009 Lambda Book Award in the GBT Anthologies category. The award was presented at a ceremony on May 28th in New York. Also recognized by the Lammy's was Screening Sex by Linda Williams, which was a finalist in the LGBT Studies category.

Photograph by David Shankbone

Duke Author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick died on April 12, 2009 in New York. Influential in the fields of queer studies, gender studies, and critical theory, Sedgwick published several major works with Duke University Press:Tendencies, Fat Art, Thin Art, and Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity.

Sedgwick was also a co-editor of the book series Series Q with Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, and Michael Moon.

Duke Press pays tribute to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

Mary Ellen Mark Selects Winner of First Book Prize in Photography

The Winner of the 2009 Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography has been selected by Mary Ellen Mark. Jennette Williams's black-and-white images of women bathers has been selected to receive the biennial award and her book The Bathers will be published in November 2009 by Duke University Press.

A selection of images from the book is available online.

For more information about the Center for Documentary Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography, please visit the CDS website.

New Developments

2010 Pricing for The e-Duke Scholarly Collections

Duke University Press announces 2010 pricing, with no increase for the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. For more information, please download the full press release or visit the Library Resource Center.

Duke University Press offers new options for the e-Duke Journals Scholarly Collection, as part of its release of 2010 pricing. For more information, please download the full press release or visit the Library Resource Center.

More than fourteen years of content for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies is now available online for the first time and is free to current subscribers.

For more information, please read the press release.

Also available online: more than forty years of content for History of Political Economy. For more information, please read the
press release.

In Memoriam

The Duke University Community mourns the death of John Hope Franklin on March 25th in Durham, NC.

The staff of Duke University Press is proud to have published the paperback edition of George Washington Williams: A Biography.

Photographer Helen Levitt died Sunday, March 29th, in New York City. Duke University Press published two collections of Levitt's work: In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938–1948 and A Way of Seeing.

Our Fall 2009 catalog is now available online.

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