Celebrating the end of the year by reflecting on our authors’ accomplishments
The year’s awards season has been kind to MIT Press authors and their work. We are thrilled to highlight just some of the accolades that have been granted to our authors recently. To be the first to hear about award announcements like these and other news from the Press, sign up for our newsletter.
Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power by Sandra Braman
Winner of ICA Fellows Book Award for a Book of Enduring Value, 2022
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births by Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick
Winner of AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers design award, 2021
Read more about the AIGA 50 Books / 50 Covers award on the MIT Press blog
Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property by Amelia Thorpe
Honorable mention in the Australian Legal Research Awards, 2022
Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel edited by Gary Lee Downey and Teun Zuiderent-Jerak
Winner of the Amsterdamska Prize for best edited book from the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, 2022
The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope by Daniel Greene
Winner of the McGannon Book Award, 2021
Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music by Kyle Devine
Winner of the IASPM Book Prize, English Category, 2021
Overgrown: Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening by Julian Raxworthy
Winner of the AILA ACT Landscape Architecture Award for Research, Policy and Communications from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, 2022
Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion by Elizabeth L. Block
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians book of the Year, 2022
WBCN and the American Revolution: How a Radio Station Defined Politics, Counterculture, and Rock and Roll by Bill Lichtenstein
Winner of the New England Society Book Award in the Specialty category, 2022
Shortlisted for the New England Book Award, 2022
Designed for Dancing: How Midcentury Records Taught America to Dance by Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
Finalist for the Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, Dance Studies Association, 2022
Finalist for the Prize for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2022
Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics by Jacob Gaboury
Winner of the Computer History Museum book prize, SIGCIS, 2022
Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock
Longlisted for the Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category, AAAS/Subaru, 2023
The Polyhedrists: Art and Geometry in the Long Sixteenth Century by Noam Andrews
Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award, 2022
Living and Working by Dogma
Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award, 2022
Global Fintech: Financial Innovation in the Connected World edited by David L. Shrier and Alex Pentland
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2022
Hidden in Plain Sight: The History, Science, and Engineering of Microfluidic Technology by Albert Folch
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2022
The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis by George Hoberg
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2022
Winner of the Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, 2022
Urban Play: Make-Believe, Technology, and Space by Fábio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2022
Wittgenstein’s Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry by James C. Klagge
Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2022
A Biography of the Pixel by Alvy Ray Smith
Finalist for the William and Joyce Middleton Electrical Engineering History Award, IEEE, 2022
Astroquizzical: Solving the Cosmic Puzzles of Our Planets, Stars, and Galaxies: The Illustrated Edition by Jillian Scudder
Longlisted for the Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category, AAAS/Subaru, 2023