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CONTENTS Letter from the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Excerpt from This Day in Florida History . . . . . . . . . . .
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Announcing Our Spring 2020 Season . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Looking Back with UPF Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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75 Years of Bestselling Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 UPF on the Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Award Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 In the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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From the Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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In Memoriam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . inside back cover
Letter from the Director Dear Friends, Seventy-five years ago the University of Florida Press—the name under which we were founded—published its first book, Florida Under Five Flags by Rembert W. Patrick. The book is not overly long, but its publication was no simple feat: it took more than a year from the day the manuscript was delivered as a stack of typewritten sheets to Lewis Haines, the press’s first director, to the day thousands of bound copies were delivered to the office that, back then, was located within the old stadium. So much of publishing has changed in these three quarters of a century. Were we to time travel back to 1945, we would barely recognize most of the processes to turn a manuscript into a final book. Even the art of bookselling has changed. Today, major vendors know exactly how much stock of every title is in a warehouse via EDI (electronic data interchange), and quite often a publisher doesn’t even need physical stock because of advances in print-on-demand technology. But some things have not changed. Dedicated staff remain committed to producing and disseminating works of scholarly and creative excellence and books that contribute to the understanding of our history and the stewardship of Florida’s cultural and natural resources. Authors choose us to publish their manuscripts—the culmination of years of research and creative endeavor—because they know we will be rigorous in the peer-review process, meticulous in copyediting, artful in book design, and innovative in the promotion of their books. Readers of every stripe seek our books at libraries across the world, on digital platforms, at their local bookstores, and very often they keep treasured, dog-eared copies of University Press of Florida classics close at hand. They are scholars, researchers, and graduate students in fields as diverse as dance studies and natural history; policy makers at the local, state, and federal levels who require thoroughly researched and timely information about our climate, our ecosystems, our flora and fauna; students learning about the rich and complicated history of our state or its intricate government; long-time residents and newcomers just settling in; tourists and teachers; and even people who have never set foot in the Sunshine State but are fascinated by its magical appeal. In the next 25 years, the publishing process will continue to evolve and transform—and time travelers from 2045 may be mystified by some of our current methods—but the University Press of Florida will continue to adapt and innovate. We will continue to bring together readers and research, foster new voices in emerging fields, publish serious books that elaborate and elucidate the complex questions of our day, contribute to the abundance and variety of cultural expression, and champion the integrity of knowledge and ideas. To quote my very remarkable predecessor, Meredith Babb, who in a speech to the Association of University Presses compared university presses to Darwin’s finches, “Our diversity is our adaptive coloring. Our collaboration and generosity help us cope with our new environment. Our reciprocity and creativity are the changing of our beaks.” Thank you—readers, authors, friends—for your support these past 75 years. It is because of you that the University Press of Florida will continue to publish excellent books for the citizens of our state and for the world.
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Excerpt from This
Day in Florida History
Andrew K. Frank, J. Hendry Miller, and Tarah Luke Short Takes on Five Centuries of History The seventy-fifth anniversary of the University Press of Florida offers an opportunity to reflect on the events, people, and themes that best illuminate the history of Florida. Much has changed over the past seventy-five years, both in terms of the development of the state and in the maturation of the history profession. Florida’s population today is roughly ten times larger than it was in 1945. The population has moved southward, transforming the small towns of Orlando and Miami into cosmopolitan cities, and the state has become a destination for immigrants and tourists from across the globe. The history profession also has changed as scholars have expanded the range of historical inquiry to include people and topics that were once deemed inconsequential. It is in this spirit that we offer This Day in Florida History and its 366 entries.
In 1945, when UPF opened, the events for this type of volume would have been simple to choose. It would have been filled with elections, important legislation, city incorporations, inventions, and famous politicians. It would have emphasized the perspectives of the wealthy, of white communities, and of men. The entries would have been a celebration of achievements and progress without much awareness of the costs of development and change. In 1945, few paid much attention to the presence of the Spanish in the colonial era or of enslaved Africans in the Old South. Residents from Cuba and the Caribbean who called Florida home for centuries were deemed unimportant, and Native Americans were dismissed as savages who were inevitably on their way toward extinction. The volume would have had a different geographic feel as well; the entries would have largely focused on the ¡ 2 ¡
Panhandle, as the population shift in the state that followed World War II had not yet occurred. This Day in Florida History reflects these changes in Florida and in historical sensibilities more generally. Rather than representing the 366 most important and best-known events in Florida history, the entries illuminate the state’s diversity and the various themes that explain it. The topics of some entries would fit comfortably in the imagined volume from 1945, even if the interpretations of them may not. Most of the topics, though, would not have been included in such a volume. Some entries may be familiar to readers; others may not. Entries cover civil rights protests, revolts by Apalachee Indians, crashes at the Daytona 500, and disputes over the drainage of the Everglades.
They include the capture of the Seminole warrior Osceola, the establishment of Walt Disney World and of Fort Mosé, and the recurrence of hurricanes. The 366 entries hardly encompass the entirety of Florida history, of course, and we hope that this volume sparks interest in learning more. Andrew K. Frank is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of several books, including Before the Pioneers: Indians, Settlers, Slaves, and the Founding of Miami. J. Hendry Miller is collections manager at the Georgia Archives and former archivist at the State Archives of Florida. Tarah Luke is an archivist at the Georgia Archives and former instructor of history at Florida State University.
trees and bushes—live oaks, azaleas, gardenias, magnolias, sabal palms, and others. for further reading: Tim Hollis, Dixie before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1999).
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February 2 On February 2, 1980, the FBI sting operation Abscam became public knowledge. Short for “Abdul Scam,” the public corruption investigation ultimately resulted in the arrest and conviction of Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, six other US congressmen, and several local politicians from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In the operation, a fictitious Middle Eastern businessman attempted to bribe politicians in exchange for political favors. Kelly, a Republican from Zephyrhills, was filmed taking a $25,000 bribe and stuffing it and some cigars into his pockets; he spent the money before being arrested. Kelly proclaimed his innocence and insisted that he was running his own sting operation against corrupt federal agents. He ultimately served thirteen months in prison.
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February 1 On February 1, 1929, Bok Tower Gardens opened to the public in Lake Wales. Hundreds of guests, including President Calvin Coolidge, attended the official dedication of the 250-acre bird sanctuary. Edward Bok, the editor of Ladies Home Journal, hoped that the area would attract birds from around the region and introduced various species to help start the park. Although his attempt to introduce non-native flamingos failed, the general bird population thrived. They made their homes in and near the thousands of planted
for further reading: Craig Pittman, Oh, Florida! How America’s Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016).
February 3 On February 3, 1885, Susan B. Anthony wrote to Floridian Julia Seiver to inquire about her helping to rally support for the women’s suffrage movement in Florida. The movement had been struggling to gain traction in Florida even among white reformers. Instead of pushing for the vote, many white women emphasized temperance and maintaining racial segregation. Seiver thought differently and told Anthony that she wished she was healthy enough to go on a speaking tour for the “noble cause” because “the indifference manifested by the [white] women of the South is truly deplorable.” Despite Seiver and Anthony’s efforts, Florida women did not get the right to vote until 1920.
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University Press of Florida Spring 2020 Season
The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook, Anniversary Edition
Taste the Islands
From Saloons to Steak Houses
Culinary Adventures in a Caribbean Kitchen
A History of Tampa
Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco
Hugh Sinclair, Cynthia Verna, and Calibe Thompson
Andrew T. Huse
Yamato Colony
This Day in Florida History
Tossed to the Wind
The Pioneers Who Brought Japan to Florida
Andrew K. Frank, J. Hendry Miller, and Tarah Luke
Stories of Hurricane Maria Survivors
Ryusuke Kawai, translated by John Gregersen and Reiko Nishioka
María T. Padilla and Nancy Rosado
The Greenway Imperative
Journey of a River Walker
The Last Resort
Connecting Communities and Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
Paddling the St. Johns River
Jewish South Beach, 1977–1986
Ray Whaley
Gary Monroe
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History Staging Discomfort: Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba Bretton White
Black Panther in Exile: The Pete O’Neal Story Paul J. Magnarella Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice Quito J. Swan
Digital Humanities in Latin America Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez, editors Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Aaron Sheehan-Dean
The New Brazilian Mediascape: Television Production in the Digital Streaming Age Eli Lee Carter
The Governors of Florida R. Boyd Murphree and Robert A. Taylor, editors
Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America María del Pilar Blanco and Joanna Page, editors
Archaeology Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism during Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair Rebecca S. Graff
Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human Lucy Bollington and Paul Merchant, editors
The Archaeology of Magic: Gender and Domestic Protection in Seventeenth-Century New England C. Riley Augé
L i t e r at u r e Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake Colleen Jaurretche
Bioarchaeology and Identity Revisited Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher M. Stojanowski, editors
An Introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders Carl Phelpstead
Ancient West Mexicos: Time, Space, and Diversity Joshua D. Englehardt, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Christopher S. Beekman, editors
An Old French Trilogy: Texts from the William of Orange Cycle Translated by Catherine M. Jones, William W. Kibler, and Logan E. Whalen
Archaeological Interpretations: Symbolic Meaning within Andes Prehistory Peter Eeckhout, editor Robert J. Walker: The History and Archaeology of a U.S. Coast Survey Steamship James P. Delgado and Steve Nagiewicz
Da n c e Moving Lessons: Margaret H’Doubler and the Beginning of Dance in American Education Janice L. Ross
Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America Chelsea Rose and J. Ryan Kennedy, editors
Howling Near Heaven: Twyla Tharp and the Reinvention of Modern Dance Marcia B. Siegel
Dogs: Archaeology beyond Domestication Brandi Bethke and Amanda Burtt, editors
The Legat Legacy Mindy Aloff, editor
L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s Handmade in Cuba: Rolando Estévez and the Beautiful Books of Ediciones Vigía Ruth Behar, Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, and Kristin Schwain, editors
View all titles in our Spring/Summer 2020 catalog at upress.ufl.edu/Spring2020.
Operation Pedro Pan and the Exodus of Cuba’s Children Deborah Shnookal · 5 ·
Looking Back with UPF Staff 1973
First book published: Florida Under Five Flags
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1947
1945 Founded with a slightly different name (University of Florida Press) and Lewis Haines as director
William Harvey appointed director
University Presses of Florida, a decentralized, system-wide consortium established by the State Board of Regents
A lot has changed since the University Press of Florida was founded in 1945 by one part-time employee. Our current staff recently met with longtime staff members Lynn Werts, Deidre Bryan, Beth Kent, Larry Leshan, and Meredith Babb to reminisce about the transformation of book publishing in the last 40 years.
I started to do some covers, but I didn’t realize that book interiors were designed until editor/designer Frank Solely said, “There’s this whole other world of design.” We started reading about all these great typographers and book designers. We were totally captivated by it. Back then I was designing books the old-fashioned way, which was: you designed an interior by sketching it. If there was something you didn’t like, you had to erase it and draw again. When we got computers we started doing basic layout, so the type was easier to move around.
When did you start at UPF and how did your role change over time? Lynn: I was hired as production manager in 1980. When director Ken Scott got there, he worked with all of us to rearrange the top floor of the press at that time—editorial, design, and production—into one department. I think we were one of the very first presses to make that organizational change.
Deidre: I started as an editor in 1977, and I ended up as managing editor. The early ’90s were when all the electronic editing started. I was really shy and fearful about learning to do anything on the computer. But when I saw that you could search for something and change all of them in the book, I said, “Yeah, I think I’m going to get on board with this.”
As production manager I was coordinating the typesetting and all the printing being done by outside companies. Larry: I started in 1979. I was just hired to do charts and graphs. I came from UF as a graphic design major. I asked Phil Martin, the director, if I could do covers and he said yes. He liked that I was interested in learning book design.
Beth: I started in 1990 as promotions manager. My job was to get as much attention for the books as possible. Marketing changed a lot in response to the increasing number of books published. The department enlarged and job descriptions got a little more specialized. During the decade I was there, it was as if suddenly everything was done on a computer. After ’95–’96 all the
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1977
1978
1979
1980
1988
Deidre Bryan hired as manuscript editor
Phillip Martin appointed Director
Larry Leshan hired as a paste-up artist
Lynn Werts hired as production manager
George Bedell appointed director
contact with authors was by email instead of letters or by phone. The phone stopped ringing after ’97! Meredith: Job #1 was always to keep the door open and the press functioning. Publishing quality books that make a difference was the easy part—the remarkable staff always saw to that. The challenge was and remains keeping the value of a university press forward in the minds of university administrators. Beth: Those were all books that had high-quality content, and you could really respect what the author was doing.
What were some of your favorite books you worked on, and what were some of your proudest accomplishments?
Deidre: Harry Crews’s Florida Frenzy and Getting Naked with Harry Crews because those are two books that I actually acquired. Working with Harry was a true experience, and he was just a good guy.
Lynn: Absolutely Gary Monroe’s The Highwaymen. Jerry Uelsmann’s books. Lots of production challenges, which I loved. And the last book I worked on was another book that I loved: Mac Stone’s Everglades. They were all really challenging.
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Looking Back with UPF Staff 1989
1990
1991
1994
Published Classical Ballet Technique, an all-time bestseller
Beth Kent hired as promotions manager
The consortium became University Press of Florida, a single press for the Florida State University System
Ken Scott appointed director
photographs in a row of how the ballerinas looked when they did the movements.
Beth: The fun for me was when books got national attention. Probably Totch Brown’s Totch: A Life in the Everglades got the most attention during the decade I was working. He was so colorful and it was fun to know him. Larry: Some of my favorite books to work on were African Art at the Harn Museum, by Robin Poynor. And Classical Ballet Technique (it was grueling—every photo hand placed). Uelsmann’s books are fun because you can vary the photo size. The book can have a nice flow to it. I like to have some variation, different sizes of the art on every page.
Larry: I also loved Picturing Apollo 11. Working with an enthusiastic author on a great project is a treat. And it’s very gratifying to see the success.
Deidre: Larry sized and cropped every movement in the classical ballet repertoire. It was the first time a ballet book had ever been illustrated with photographs of each movement. There would be four or five
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2005
2015
2019
2020
Meredith Morris-Babb appointed director
UPF Journals Program is started by Lauren Phillips
Romi Gutierrez appointed director
University Press of Florida celebrates 75 years
pathbreaking The Highwaymen and Jeff Klinkenberg’s Alligators in B-Flat.
What would surprise an outsider most about university press publishing?
Larry, what books that you’ve designed have won awards from the AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show? Larry: I’m probably most proud of the award for African Art at the Harn. Robert Bringhurst was a judge, and he wrote the bible on typography. Also, The Southern Movie Palace (the judge said that my marble endpapers were tragic). Some of the cover selections were Glazed America, Images of Persephone, and Salt.
Larry: I think the amount that we have to do, small staffs do lots of work. When we started to publish more books, we began to use design templates to save time. We’ll tweak each one to the look and feel of each book. Lynn: The attention to detail that goes into the books that we publish. Everything from acquiring them down to the smallest word and comma, grammatical phrase, and design element. We made sure the quality of the book was what was expected of a university press. And I think we were all in that together. Deidre: I was very proud to be working for publishers who were so careful. And everybody got along. Beth: You can see one of the best parts about working at the press is meeting people who are so great. Meredith: How accessible and readable so many of our books are. I bet many readers have UPF books on their shelves and don’t realize it. *Interviews have been edited for length and clarity.
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75 Years of Bestselling Books Art and Photography
The Highwaymen
Journal of Light
Everglades
Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters
The Visual Diary of a Florida Nature Photographer
America’s Wetland
Gary Monroe
Mac Stone
John Moran
Cookbooks
The Columbia Restaurant Spanish Cookbook Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco
Coconuts and Collards
Field to Feast
Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
Recipes Celebrating Florida Farmers, Chefs, and Artisans
Von Diaz
Pam Brandon, Katie Farmand, and Heather McPherson
Gardening
Florida Landscape Plants Native and Exotic, Third Edition John V. Watkins, Thomas J. Sheehan, and Robert J. Black
Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida
An Introduction to How Plants Work
Ginny Stibolt and Melissa Contreras
Craig N. Huegel
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The Nature of Plants
N at u r a l H i s t o r y
Fishes in the Fresh Waters of Florida
Geologic History of Florida
Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida
An Identification Guide and Atlas
Major Events that Formed the Sunshine State
Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge,
Robert H. Robins, Lawrence M. Page, James D. Williams, Zachary S. Randall, and Griffin E. Sheehy
Albert C. Hine
and Paul E. Moler
F l o r i da C u lt u r e
Totch
Son of Real Florida
Kick Ass
A Life in the Everglades
Stories from My Life
Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
Loren G. “Totch” Brown
Jeff Klinkenberg
Carl Hiaasen, edited by Diane Stevenson
F l o r i da H i s t o r y
The History of Florida
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
Walking St. Augustine
Edited by Michael Gannon
A Social History of Modern Florida
An Illustrated Guide and Pocket History to America’s Oldest City
Gary R. Mormino
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75 Years of Bestselling Books Da n c e
Classical Ballet Technique
Dancing in Blackness
Winter Season
Gretchen Ward Warren
A Memoir
A Dancer’s Journal
Halifu Osumare
Toni Bentley
S pa c e
Forever Young
Picturing Apollo 11
Truth, Lies, and O-Rings
A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
John W. Young with James R. Hansen
J. L. Pickering and John Bisney
Allan J. McDonald with James R. Hansen
Archaeology and Anthropology
Salt
New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida
White Gold of the Ancient Maya
Edited by Neill J. Wallis and Asa R. Randall
The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers Sherene Baugher and Richard F. Veit
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Af r i c a n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s
Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers
Origins of the Dream
Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home
Reflections from the Deep South, 1964–1980
Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric
Racial Violence in Florida
Edited by Kent Spriggs
W. Jason Miller
Tameka Bradley Hobbs
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies
People, Power, and Sovereignty
Marc Frank
Edited by Robert McKee Irwin and Mónica Szurmuk
Edited by Robert Maguire and Scott Freeman
Becoming Virginia Woolf
An Introduction to the Gawain Poet
In the Vortex of the Cyclone
Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read
John M. Bowers
L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s
Cuban Revelations
Who Owns Haiti?
L i t e r at u r e
Barbara Lounsberry
Selected Poems Excilia Saldaña, Edited and Translated by Flora M. González Mandri and Rosamond Rosenmeier
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UPF on the Road The University Press of Florida travels to many different conferences and festivals each year to promote our books, meet our readers, and talk with scholars in the fields we publish. Here are some snapshots from our book exhibits in 2019.
Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting Albuquerque, New Mexico
Miami Book Fair International Miami, Florida
Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting and Conference North Charleston, South Carolina
Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Discovery Show Spartanburg, South Carolina
Latin American Studies Association Congress Boston, Massachusetts
South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference Atlanta, Georgia ¡ 14 ¡
Journals C e l e b r at i n g t h e f i f t h a n n i v e r s a r y o f o u r j o u r n a l s p r o g r a m With the launch of Bioarchaeology International, the University of Florida Press expanded into the world of scholarly journal publishing. In the past five years, the journals program has acquired ten journals in various academic disciplines. Recently, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine won the 2019 award for Best New Journal from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Forensic Anthropology published a new study in 2018 that suggests bones found on a Pacific island could be the remains of Amelia Earhart, research that was reported on by numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post and National Geographic.
Bioarchaeology International Edited by Sabrina C. Agarwal and Brenda J. Baker
Forensic Anthropology Edited by Joseph T. Hefner, Nicholas V. Passalacqua, and Angi M. Christensen
Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Edited by Lisa Melonçon and J. Blake Scott
Subtropics: The Literary Journal of the University of Florida Edited by David Leavitt, Mark Mitchell, and Ange Mlinko
Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature Edited by Hal H. Rennert
Spanish as a Heritage Language Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo
Journal of Global South Studies Edited by Ryan Alexander
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Edited by Gautam Kundu and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower
Journal of Political and Military Sociology Edited by Neovi M. Karakatsanis and Jonathan Swarts
Florida Tax Review Edited by Charlene Luke
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Award Winners F l o r i da H u m a n i t i e s C o u n c i l
F l o r i da H i s t o r i c a l S o c i e t y
Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing
Charlton Tebeau Award, 2019
Several UPF authors have been recipients of the Florida Humanities Council Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing since the program’s inaugural year in 2010. The award, given annually, honors a Florida author for a distinguished body of work that has had a major influence on Floridians. UPF publications have contributed to this celebrated body of work.
Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour’s Life
Raymond Arsenault, coeditor
Julie Hauserman
Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida
Randy Wayne White Randy Wayne White’s Ultimate Tarpon Book: The Birth of Big Game Fishing
Jeff Klinkenberg Son of Real Florida: Stories from My Life
Bruce Horovitz N at i o n a l O u t d o o r B o o k Awa r d s
History/Biography, 2019 Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles
I n t e r n at i o n a l Ass o c i at i o n o f C u l i n a r y P r o f e ss i o n a l s C o o k b o o k Awa r d s
Finalist, Literary or Historical Food Writing, 2019 Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South
Von Diaz
Gary R. Mormino Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
ARLI S / NA S o u t h e a s t C h a p t e r L o P r e s t i Awa r d
Scholarly Publication Award, 2019
Michael Gannon The History of Florida
Carl Hiaasen
Arts of Korea: Histories, Challenges, and Perspectives
Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen
Edited by Jason Steuber and Allysa B. Peyton
F l o r i da B o o k Awa r d s
Richard E. Rice Gold Medal for Visual Arts, 2019 William Morgan: Evolution of an Architect
Richard Shieldhouse
Silver Medal for Florida Nonfiction, 2019 In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places In Between
Edited by Jim Ross
Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction, 2019 Key to the New World: A History of Early Colonial Cuba
Luis Martínez-Fernández
L at i n A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s Ass o c i at i o n Haiti-Dominican Republic Section
Isis Duarte Book Prize, 2018 The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and the Politics of Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic
Elizabeth S. Manley C a r i b b e a n S t u d i e s Ass o c i at i o n
Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, 2017 Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic
Brendan Jamal Thornton Society for Historical Archaeology
Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction, 2019
James Deetz Book Award, 2018
Gamble Rogers: A Troubadour’s Life
Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community
Bruce Horovitz
Martha A. Zierden and Elizabeth J. Reitz · 16 ·
In the News Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments J. L. Pickering and John Bisney
The Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban-American Journey Victor Andres Triay
“Across 10 well-organized chapters, the selected images capture the country’s mounting excitement; the meticulous preparation of astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins; and finally the moon landing itself and the crew’s return to Earth . . . The reader is left with an ample sense of the astronauts’ fame and, thanks to Pickering and Bisney’s wise selections, of their lasting accomplishment.”—Publishers Weekly
“In this informative and moving work, historian Triay (Fleeing Castro) expertly explores one of the most infamous refugee crises in U.S. history . . . This compassionate and accessible study is especially relevant given current debates surrounding immigration.”—Publishers Weekly
Coconuts and Collards: Recipes and Stories from Puerto Rico to the Deep South Von Diaz
Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen: Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry Sallie Ann Robinson
“Put[s] a modern spin on Puerto Rican cooking theory. Diaz may not be a trained chef or have a direct connection to a restaurant, but she has the voice to bring American-Puerto Rican cookery, as it exists today, into a broader consciousness.”—Eater
“A book to treasure as both a cultural history resource and a tempting cookbook. Robinson attracts with her recipes, but sets the hook with her immersive descriptions of a unique American place and time, noting that ‘One of the best ways to remember history is to taste it.’”—Foreword Reviews
Backroads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida Cathy Salustri
Drawn to the Deep: The Remarkable Underwater Explorations of Wes Skiles Julie Hauserman
“[Salustri] delights in letting people know that to really discover Florida, you have to turn off the congested interstates and explore the state’s towns and cities.” —New York Times
“Journalist Hauserman does justice to the remarkable life of an explorer dubbed ‘Florida’s Jacques Cousteau.’ . . . Hauserman, who knew her subject personally, more than makes the case that Skiles’s innovation and daring added significantly to the understanding of a variety of aquatic worlds, and to the human impact on them.”—Publishers Weekly
Becoming Virginia Woolf: Her Early Diaries and the Diaries She Read Virginia Woolf ’s Modernist Path: Her Middle Diaries and the Diaries She Read Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within: Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read Barbara Lounsberry
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Halifu Osumare “Osumare has engaged with black dance as performer, choreographer, educator, arts administrator, researcher, and activist in the United States, Africa, and Europe, and through multiple careers. In this equal parts memoir, autoethnography, history, encyclopedic catalog, and sociocultural analysis, she traces her activities from the 1960s through the late 1990s, as she becomes a tenacious advocate for black dance . . . An eclectic mélange.”—Library Journal
“Lounsberry’s years of meditation on her material can be felt.” —Times Literary Supplement “Barbara Lounsberry has done for Woolf’s diaries what the diaries once did for Woolf’s novels, and what all great literary criticism seeks to do: It takes a canonical work of literature and offers an entirely new way of seeing it.”—New Republic
The Insistence of Harm Fernando Valverde Translated by Allen Josephs and Laura Juliet Wood “Valverde has been widely published and widely praised. This bilingual edition of an award-winning collection brings Valverde’s brilliance into English for the first time, and the poems substantiate his reputation . . . A long-awaited and enlightening addition to contemporary Spanish-language poetry in translation.”—Booklist · 17 ·
From the Editorial Board “It has been an enormous privilege to serve on the UPF board since its inception in the late ’80s. To help select the finest publications along with extraordinary colleagues from our entire state system has been the richest service in my career.” —Allen Josephs Professor of English University of West Florida “Serving on the University Press of Florida editorial board for the last fifteen years has been a highlight of my career. I have enjoyed working with my esteemed colleagues and the very knowledgeable staff at the press, all of whom are committed to publishing quality academic works and other volumes that enrich our knowledge of Florida, the nation, and the world.” —David Jackson Associate Provost for Graduate Education Dean of the Graduate College Department of History and Political Science Florida A&M University
in-depth histories of Florida’s rich cultural legacies to journalistic Florida cracker humor to the Columbia restaurant cookbook. One of the fundamental missions of the University Press of Florida is to publish works that contribute to the vast knowledge and information available to the public about ‘all things Florida’—Floridiana. Everyone will find UPF books that will enrich their lives on an extraordinary variety of topics.” —Nancy K. Poulson Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature Florida Atlantic University
“My participation on the University Press of Florida editorial board is a rewarding experience that has permitted me, along with colleagues coming from various disciplines and institutions, to participate in university press publishing. The press is an invaluable public resource that not only performs a service to scholarship but also to the state of Florida.” —William A. Link Richard J. Milbaur Professor of History Department of History University of Florida “Being a member of the UPF editorial board has helped me to appreciate the rich intellectual and cultural contributions of each of the institutions in Florida’s state university system and the authors and editors with whom we work. From dance to pottery to cooking and history and politics, the UPF portfolio offers a vast array of perspectives, methodologies, and approaches for understanding Florida and the world.” —Melody Bowdon Associate Dean, College of Undergraduate Studies Executive Director, Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric University of Central Florida “UPF is attracting the most thoughtful and engaged scholars on heritage and archaeology and publishing a wide range of books offering new insights and syntheses that energize my teaching and engage my students at New College of Florida.” —Uzi Baram Professor of Anthropology Director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab New College of Florida “Since becoming a member of the editorial board in 2001, I have read many projects that examine issues related to Florida and range from serious academic studies of the state’s economy to guidebooks that led me to explore the incredible flora, fauna, ecosystems, and waterways (and catch some impressive fish) to
“I love being on the UPF editorial board because the press attracts so many deeply interesting book projects. It’s a pleasure being a part of the process that brings them out into the world.” —Kevin A. Evans Associate Professor and Graduate Program Interim Director for Political Science Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs Director of Politics and International Relations Florida International University “In my discipline, archaeology, the University Press of Florida has established itself as one of the top outlets for the latest cutting-edge scholarship. UPF is among the first presses that colleagues from all over the world now look to, both to publish their work but also to learn about the latest advancements in the field.” —John Kantner Dean of the Graduate School Associate Vice President for Research University of North Florida
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In Memoriam Dav i d R . C o l b u r n , 19 4 3 – 2 0 19
David R. Colburn was a University Press of Florida author and longtime friend of the press. A historian who devoted his career to teaching, scholarship, and service at the University of Florida, Colburn was highly revered as a professor and authored or edited many books, including five UPF books about Florida history and politics. He served as the provost and senior vice president of the University of Florida from 1999 to 2005, during which time he provided guidance and support to the press. He was editor, with Susan MacManus, of the UPF book series Florida Government and Politics. Most recently, he served on the editorial advisory board of the press’s Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series. Colburn was “a gentleman scholar who I will miss daily,” says Meredith Babb, former director of the University Press of Florida.
Books by David R. Colburn From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and Its Politics since 1940, Second Edition David R. Colburn Florida’s Megatrends: Critical Issues in Florida, Second Edition David R. Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith Government in the Sunshine State: Florida since Statehood David R. Colburn and Lance deHaven-Smith Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877–1980 David R. Colburn The African American Heritage of Florida Edited by David R. Colburn and Jane L. Landers
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