Morris D. Forkosch Award for Best Book

Sponsoring Organization: Northland College Sigurd Olson Environmental InstituteAward Level: Honorable Mention | Award Year: 2023Winner(s): The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas by Hanne Strager

By any measure, Jack Goellner was a transformative figure at Johns Hopkins University Press, where he joined the staff in 1961 and served as director from 1974 until 1995. During his tenure, the Press grew from a relatively small operation publishing 25 books...

by Paula Backscheider, author of Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century A student wrote of my book, “What I found most interesting were … resonant examples of wartime women and the similarities that continue to be...