Congrats to Kornitzer Book Award prizewinners

Dear Readers:

Drew University has announced the faculty and alumni winners of the 2022 Bela Kornitzer Award for Nonfiction. 

The 2022 awardees were chosen from a robust field of nominations for books published between 2020 and 2022 and each receive a $2,000 prize.

The nominations were reviewed by a panel of Drew faculty and staff, including two previous winners, Jonathan Rose, Drew’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, and Leslie Sprout, Professor of Music, as well as Guy Dobson, interim director of the Drew University Library and director of technical services, and Jesse Mann, Drew Theological School Librarian.

The Drew faculty awardee is:

Jinee Lokaneeta, professor of political science and international relations at Drew, for her book, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India (University of Michigan Press, 2020). The book also received the C. Herman Pritchett Award in 2021.

The Drew alumna receiving this year's award is:

Brigitte Fielder G’04 for her work, Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kingship in Nineteenth-Centry America (Duke University Press, 2020). Fielder is currently an associate professor in the College of Arts & Letters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Bela Kornitzer Award was established by Alicia Karpati and George Karpati, in honor of Bela Kornitzer, Mrs. Karpati’s brother. The award recognizes the achievements of Hungarian-born journalist and author Bela Kornitzer (1910-1964). Mr. Kornitzer’s archives are housed in the Drew University Library. Past Kornitzer prize winners may be found HERE.

Contributing to the blogpost: Drew University Communications and Margery Ashmun