Gordon J. Laing Award

The Gordon J. Laing Award is conferred annually, by the University of Chicago's Board of University Publications, on the faculty author, editor, or translator whose book has brought the greatest distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press. The first award was given in 1963 and the 53rd and most recent award was given on April 21, 2016 to Amir Sufi, the Bruce Lindsey Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

The award is named in honor of the scholar who, serving as general editor of the Press from 1909 until 1940, firmly established the character and reputation of the Press as the premier academic publisher in the United States.

The award is presented each April at a ceremony at the Quadrangle Club (University of Chicago).

House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again

I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History

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

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought

Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age

Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature

Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century

England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism

Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies

Modern American Religion (in three volumes)

How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States

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