Book recognition event

Annual CMU Book Recognition Event applications are open

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the University Libraries, the annual Book Recognition Event celebrates CMU authors, editors, illustrators, and translators.

You may view the books of past recipients online, browse the book collection located at the north end of the Park Library’s second floor, or view the honorees by year.

Submissions

Faculty, staff, and emeriti who authored, co-authored, edited, co-edited, or translated a book published in 2025 are eligible for recognition at the annual CMU Book Recognition Event. The deadline is midnight Jan. 23, 2026.  

Submission Form and Guidelines

This year’s event

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
2:00 p.m. in the Park Library Opperman Auditorium

Followed by a reception in the Clarke Historical Library’s reading room

Event Details

 
Close-up image of books on shelf that represent the Book Recognition Event collection in the Library.
BRE book collection

View the books of past recipients.

View the Collection
Group of participants from the Book Recognition Event at Central Michigan University.
Honorees by year

View the complete list of past honorees.

Honorees by year

2025 annual Book Recognition Event honorees:

Steven K. Bailey, Author, Department of English Language and Literature. Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War. Osprey Publishing, 2024. 

Target Hong Kong: A True Story of U.S. Navy Pilots at War, by Steven K. Bailey. The book cover image is of war era aircrafts at the top with transparent radar rings and below the title is a shipping port with bombs exploding in the water.

Jeffrey Bean, Author, Department of English Language and Literature. Everywhere, Everywhere. Cloudbank Books, 2024. 

Elaine DiFalco Daugherty, Co-Author, Department of Theatre and Dance, Heather Trommer-Beardslee, Co-Author, Department of Theatre and Dance. Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education. Intellect, 2024. 

Darrin Doyle, Author, Department of English Language and Literature. Let Gravity Seize the Dead. Regal House Publishing, 2024. 

Let Gravity Seize the Dead by Darrin Doyle. The book cover is of a black background with a rabbit skeleton and dead foliage designed in an artistically drawn style. There is also a book review quote in the upper left hand corner.

Troy Hicks, Co-Editor, Department of Teacher and Special Education. Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado, 2024. 

Mark Hwang, Editor, Department of Business Information Systems. Teaching Information Systems. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 

Teaching Information Systems, edited by Mark I. Hwang part of the Elgar Guides to Teaching. The book cover has pink blocks and the title on the top half abd hands on a laptop keyboard with transparent graphics floating above the hands.

Dan Kaczynski, Co-Editor, Professor Emeritus. How to Conduct Qualitative Research in Finance. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. 

Daniel Lawson, Co-Author, Department of English Language and Literature. Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures. The WAC Clearinghouse, University Press of Colorado, 2024. 

Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capatlist Futures by Genie Nicole Giaimo and Daniel Lawson with Chapters from 34 Colleagues. THe cover is a baby Blue and navy with two posters from the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the center of the cover.

Jennifer Liu, Author, Department of History, World Languages, and Cultures. Indoctrinating the Youth: Secondary Education in Wartime China and Postwar Taiwan, 1937-1960. University of Hawai'i Press, 2024. 

David Macleod, Author, Professor Emeritus. Inflation Decade, 1910-1920: Americans Confront the High Cost of Living. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 

Larissa Niec, Co-Editor, Department of Psychology. Telemental Health Care for Children and Families. Springer, 2024. 

Telemental Health Care for Children and Families, edited by Larissa N. Niec and Ciera E. Schoonover. The cover image is a color gradient of royal blue, purple red and green.

Jason E. Taylor, Author, Department of Economics. The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. 

The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression, by Jason E. Taylor. The book cover image is a cream color and a black and white image of men pushing a barrel of beer twice their height.

Gustav Verhulsdonck, Co-Author, Department of Business Information Systems. UX Writing: Designing User-Centered Content. Routledge, 2024. 

Ux Writing: Designing User-Centered Content by Jason C.K. Tham, Tharon Howard, and Gustav Verhulsdonck. The text is on a black box and colorful swirls are behind the black box.

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Co-Editor, Department of English Language and Literature. Disney Gothic: Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse. Lexington Books, 2024. 

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Co-Editor, Department of English Language and Literature. Gothic Melville. University of Wales Press, 2024. 

Robert E. Wright, Author, Department of Economics. FDR's Long New Deal: A Public Choice Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.