By Joshua Bennett (ϕBK, University of Pennsylvania), Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Belknap Press of HarvardBelknap Press of Harvard
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2021 Book Awards Short List
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize. For more information please email Aurora Sherman.
By Jenn Shapland,My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir
Tin House Books
By James Shapiro, Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell us About our Past and Future
Penguin Press
By Namwali Serpell, Stranger Faces
Transit Books
By Sianne Ngai (ϕBK, Brown University),Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
Belknap Press of Harvard
strong>By James Hamblin,Clean: The New Science of Skin
Riverhead Books
By Mario Livio,Galileo and the Science Deniers
Simon & Schuster
By Francis Su (ϕBK, University of Texas at Austin),Mathematics for Human Flourishing
Yale University Press
By Sarah Steward Johnson (ϕBK, Washington University in St. Louis),The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World
Crown
By Eugenia Cheng,x + y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender
Basic Books
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr.,Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own
Crown
By Alice Baumgartner (ϕBK, Yale College),
Basic Books
By Vincent Brown,Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Belknap Press of Harvard
By Walter Johnson (ϕBK, Amherst College),The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Basic Books
By Claudio Saunt (ϕBK, Columbia College),Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
W. W. Norton
Please email Aurora Sherman at asherman@pbk.org with any inquiries or call (202) 745-3287.