The Gordon J. Laing Award

The University of Chicago Press presents the The Gordon J. Laing Award annually to the University of Chicago faculty author, editor, or translator of a book published in the previous three years that brings the Press the greatest distinction.

An Epidemic of Uncertainty

An Epidemic of Uncertainty

Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi

Jenny Trinitapoli | 2025

Objects in Air

Artworks and Their Outside around 1900

Margareta Ingrid Christian | 2024

Civic Gifts

Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State

Elisabeth S. Clemens | 2023

Authoritarian Apprehensions

Authoritarian Apprehensions

Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

Lisa Wedeen | 2022

The Republic of Color

The Republic of Color

Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America

Michael Rossi | 2021

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Ghosts in the Schoolyard

Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side

Eve L. Ewing | 2020

Tough Enough

Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

Deborah Nelson | 2019

Down, Out, and Under Arrest

Down, Out, and Under Arrest

Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row

Forrest Stuart | 2018

Neighboring Faiths

Neighboring Faiths

Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

David Nirenberg | 2017

House of Debt

How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi | 2016

I Speak of the City

I Speak of the City

Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo | 2015

Memory

Fragments of a Modern History

Alison Winter | 2014

Political Epistemics

Political Epistemics

The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism

Andreas Glaeser | 2013

Piracy

The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Adrian Johns | 2012

The Tragic Sense of Life

The Tragic Sense of Life

Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought

Robert J. Richards | 2011

Opera and Sovereignty

Opera and Sovereignty

Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Martha Feldman | 2010

Against Prediction

Against Prediction

Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

Bernard E. Harcourt | 2009

Divas and Scholars

Divas and Scholars

Performing Italian Opera

Philip Gossett | 2008

What Do Pictures Want?

What Do Pictures Want?

The Lives and Loves of Images

W. J. T. Mitchell | 2006

A Sense of Things

A Sense of Things

The Object Matter of American Literature

Bill Brown | 2005

Hellenicity

Between Ethnicity and Culture

Jonathan M. Hall | 2004

The Romantic Conception of Life

The Romantic Conception of Life

Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

Robert J. Richards | 2003

Theorizing Myth

Theorizing Myth

Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

Bruce Lincoln | 2002

The Passing of an Illusion

The Passing of an Illusion

The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century

François Furet | 2001

England in 1819

England in 1819

The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism

James Chandler | 2000

Thinking Biblically

Thinking Biblically

Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies

André LaCocque and Paul Ricoeur | 1999

Modern American Religion, Volume 1

Modern American Religion, Volume 1

The Irony of It All, 1893-1919

Martin E. Marty | 1998

How "Natives" Think

About Captain Cook, For Example

Marshall Sahlins | 1997

Picture Theory

Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

W. J. T. Mitchell | 1996

The Social Organization of Sexuality

The Social Organization of Sexuality

Sexual Practices in the United States

Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels | 1995

Hand and Mind

What Gestures Reveal about Thought

David McNeill | 1994

The Hollow Hope

The Hollow Hope

Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

Gerald N. Rosenberg | 1993

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1

Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa

Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff | 1992

Modernity on Endless Trial

Modernity on Endless Trial

Leszek Kolakowski | 1991

The Human Career

The Human Career

Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition

Richard G. Klein | 1990

Truth and Beauty

Truth and Beauty

Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

S. Chandrasekhar | 1989

The History

Herodotus | 1988

The Founders’ Constitution

The Founders’ Constitution

Edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner | 1987

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1

History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1

From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

Mircea Eliade | 1986

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Paul Ricoeur | 1985

Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725

Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725

Richard Hellie | 1984

The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 1

The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 1

Translated and Edited by Anthony C. Yu | 1983

Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1

Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1

Theology and Ethics

James M. Gustafson | 1982

Critical Understanding

Critical Understanding

The Powers and Limits of Pluralism

Wayne C. Booth | 1981

The Last Half-Century

The Last Half-Century

Societal Change and Politics in America

Morris Janowitz | 1980

Reason and Morality

Reason and Morality

Alan Gewirth | 1979

Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1

Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1

Genetic and Biometric Foundations

Sewall Wright | 1978

Culture and Practical Reason

Culture and Practical Reason

Marshall Sahlins | 1977

Condorcet

From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics

Keith Michael Baker | 1976

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800

Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800

A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes

Eric Cochrane | 1975

Some Words of Jane Austen

Some Words of Jane Austen

Stuart M. Tave | 1974

The Intellectuals and the Powers

The Intellectuals and the Powers

Edward Shils | 1973

The Notebooks of Dostoevsky. In Five Volumes

The Notebooks of Dostoevsky. In Five Volumes

Edward Wasiolek | 1972

The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1

The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1

The Western Chou Empire

Herrlee G. Creel | 1971

The Social Order of the Slum

The Social Order of the Slum

Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

Gerald D. Suttles | 1970

Music, the Arts, and Ideas

Music, the Arts, and Ideas

Patterns and Predictions in Twentieth-Century Culture

Leonard B. Meyer | 1969

Education and Social Change in Ghana

Education and Social Change in Ghana

Philip Foster | 1968

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I

Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I

The Century of Discovery. Book 1.

Donald F. Lach | 1967

Ancient Mesopotamia

Ancient Mesopotamia

Portrait of a Dead Civilization

A. Leo Oppenheim | 1966

America’s Failure in China, 1941–1950

America’s Failure in China, 1941–1950

Tang Tso | 1965

The Rise of the West

The Rise of the West

A History of the Human Community

William H. McNeill | 1964

A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance

A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance

Bernard Weinberg | 1963

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