Prizes
OU Press has won this prestigious African Studies award four out of the last five years
What is the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History?
This person decided to start paying union dues after a visit from a "representative" of the "family"
Who is Sally Welch?
This continental thought book explores the possibility and conditions of rational, practical agency in our non-ideal world, characterized by forms of irrationality, violence, and oppression
What is "Sense and Uncertainty," by Esteban Marín-Ávila?
As an acquisitions editor, this person was responsible for transforming the successful Heinemann Social History of Africa series into New African Histories.
Who is Gill Berchowitz?
This bustling location shared with WGSS and the film school was home to OU Press for a very short time.
What is 31 S. Court Street location?
The Amicus Poloniae Award was presented at the 2023 PAHA meeting to this individual
Who is Ricky Huard?
This daredevil completed their first double-diamond ski run in 30 inches of fresh powder at dusk
Who is Laura André?
This Jacana copub takes a look at understanding history through animal cultures
What is "The Lion's Historian" by Sandra Swart?
This poet, novelist, and playwright was appointed by Vernon Alden in 1964 to found Ohio University Press
Who is Cecil Hemley?
Completely off-campus, this was the least convenient OUP home for student interns
What is 215 Columbus Road?
This volume won the 2025 African Studies Review Prize for the best Africa-Centered Edited Collection
What is Making Martial Races, edited by Myles Osborne?
If you google this person, an image comes up of them sobbing, with a towel over their head, at the disappointing end to an amazing basketball season
Who is Tyler Balli?
This eighth Andy Hayes Mysteries looks at COVID and the anti-vaxxer movement as our hero simultaneously solves an art heist
What is "Sick to Death" by Andrew Welsh-Huggins?
This director negotiated a lease with Swallow Press in order to build a trade list
Who is Pat Elisar?
In the mid-1900s, the building adjacent to this former home of OUP was where many lobotomies were done
What is the Ridges, Building 19?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the only OU Press title to have won both the Herskovits Award (Best Book Award) and the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
This person has been known to do round-offs in celebration of Bobcat victories
Who is Sandra Dixon?
Perennial OUP sellers, these two titles were newly translated by the granddaughter of the author
What are "At the Palaces of Knossos" and "Alexander the Great" by Nikos Kazantzakis?
Most likely OU Press's longest-serving director, this individual started the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize
Who is David Sanders?
This brick home to OU Press is no longer standing in its former place on University Terrace
What is Scott Quad?
The iconic cowboy statue in the conference room is the Western Heritage Wrangler Award presented to this Swallow Press book by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center in 1991
What is "Stories from Mesa Country" by Jane Candia Coleman?
This convert to the cult of Buc-ee the Beaver is also the author of The Sculptor of Beaver Pond
Who is Jeff Kallet?
This book on music and writing in the Civil Rights movement was written by a previous director of the Ohio Department of Transportation
What is "Art and Activism" by Jack Marchbanks?
Prior to their position at OU Press, this person operated their own publishing firm, printing the short works of Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, and Nin, on a self-operated hand press
Who is Duane Schneider?
Thought at one-time to be our "forever home," this suite allowed us to create a Warehouse 2 for overstock books
What is Alden 101?