Every year, the Popular Culture Association (PCA) honors the highest quality of scholarship in popular culture studies. This year’s PCA Awards were swept by books nominated by university presses. Books from the University of Missouri Press, University of Nebraska Press, University … Continue reading PCA Awards
Writer and poet Philip F. Deaver passed away last month at a hospice in Orlando, Florida. He was seventy-one years old. Deaver was the author of How Men Pray and Silent Retreats and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He was … Continue reading Remembering Philip K. Deaver
Awards Amina Gautier Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: “Amina Gautier is a prolific and award-winning writer of short fiction. In myriad stories that captivate readers and critics alike, she complicates and illuminates the intersection of self and place, with characters … Continue reading News and Reviews
University of Nebraska Press author Margaret Jacobs was one of thirty-one scholars named a Carnegie Fellow this month. She is the first University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors awarded the honor. Jacobs was selected from more than 270 proposals and will be … Continue reading UNP author named Carnegie Fellow
Awards Jim Leeke From the Dugouts to the Trenches: Baseball During the Great War Jim Leeke Winner of SABR’s 2018 Larry Ritter Book Award: “The award is granted annually by SABR’s Deadball Era Committee to the author of the best book about … Continue reading News and Reviews
The Vision Maker Film Festival begins today in Lincoln, Nebraska at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. “We Are All Related” is the theme of the seventh biennial festival. It is a conceptual translation from the Lakota language—Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ—a commonly … Continue reading Vision Maker Film Festival
Awards Black Jesus and Other Superheroes Venita Blackburn Finalist for the 2018 Young Lions Fiction Award: “The Young Lions Fiction Award not only celebrates the rising stars in the world of literature, it also ensures that readers can look forward … Continue reading News and Reviews
Books The Pitcher and the Dictator: Satchel Paige’s Unlikely Season in the Dominican Republic Averell “Ace” Smith Article on the author and book in the Los Angeles Times: “While baseball is at the heart of the book, The Pitcher and the … Continue reading News and Reviews
Awards 2018 SABR Research Award Winners From the Dugouts to the Trenches Baseball During the Great War Jim Leeke From the Award Committee Chair: “An illuminating and thorough examination of one of the least understood periods of baseball. Rich … Continue reading News and Reviews
Robertson Allen is an independent scholar and ethnographer who researches digital games, war and violence, and food cultures. His book America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War (Nebraska, 2017) is an ethnographic study based on his years of behind-the-scenes ethnographic fieldwork within … Continue reading America’s Offerings to the Gun Deity
