Temple University Press received multiple awards over the summer including:

• Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns by Charlton McIlwain and Stephen Caliendo won the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). This prestigious award is given annually for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Race Appeal addresses why, when and how often candidates use race both positively and negatively, and how the electorate responds. Authors Charlton McIlwain and Stephen Caliendo have been recently featured in the media, on Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton’s radio shows respectively, to discuss the presidential race.
• Race Appeal was also honored as one of “The Best of the Best from University Presses” by a joint committee of members of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and of American Library Association (ALA) public library professionals. The book was then featured in an annual bibliography—University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries—and was highlighted at an ALA annual conference session in June. The session was broadcast on C-Span TV.
• The Press garnered another APSA award when Stephen Marshall’s The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics got the nod for the Best First Book Award from the Foundations of Political Theory section. APSA’s Perspectives on Politics echoed the committee’s decision in its September 2012 review, saying, “Even compared to recent—and excellent—publications on black political thought, Stephen H. Marshall’s The City on the Hill From Below stands out…. [A] remarkable first book that contributes novel insights for the study of black political thought.”
• The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction bestowed the Charles Horton Cooley award for Best Book to The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience by Michael Flaherty. This award, named for one of the founders of sociology recognizes scholarly contributions to the discipline. The August 2012 issue of Symbolic Interaction called The Textures of Time “A sociological classic.”
• Jerome I. Hodos, author of Second Cities: Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia, will receive the Urban History Association's Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book published in 2011. The prize committee’s statement read, “With meticulous attention to a long view of historical process and a sociological eye for theoretical frameworks that illuminate complex social phenomenon, Second Cities by Jerome I. Hodos has offered an exciting and insightful analysis of the central role cities and urban spaces have played, and continue to play, in the complicated drama called ‘globalization.’” The award will be presented at the Urban History Association’s meeting in October.
• Two Temple University Press books received Honorable Mentions this summer at the American Sociological Association’s (ASA) annual meeting. The Sociology of Emotion section honored Nancy Berns’s Closure: The Rush to End Grief and What It Costs Us, and the Labor and Labor Movements Section’s Distinguished Book Award committee recognized Erin Hatton’s The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America.