Lynda Teller Pete
2017–2018 Award Winners
2018 Colorado Book Award, Anthology
Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays
edited by Stephanie G'Schwind
2017 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
Cámera Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition
Alexandra Hidalgo
2017 Southwest Book of the Year
Navajo Textiles: The Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Laurie D. Webster, Louise I. Stiver, D. Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete
2017 Arizona Literary Award (Published Nonfiction)
New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
edited by John G. Douglass and William M. Graves
2018 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award
edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
edited by Liam M. Brady and Paul S. C. Taçon
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Book
"The Touch of Civilization": Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
Steven Sabol
2017 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award
The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors
edited by Nicole I. Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Rebecca Jackson
2018 Excellence in Scholarship award, University of Wisconsin-Superior
Writing Program Architecture: Thirty Cases for Reference and Research
edited by Bryna Siegel Finer and Jamie White-Farnham
- Stephanie G'Schwind
- Louise I Stiver
- D Y Begay
- Lynda Teller Pete
- Laurie D Webster
- John G Douglass
- William M Graves
- Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F Eble, and William P Banks
- Liam M Brady
- Paul S C Taçon
- Nicole I Caswell
- Jackie Grutsch McKinney
- Rebecca Jackson
- Bryna Siegel Finer
- Jamie WhiteFarnham
In Focus
Navajo Textiles
Winner of the Southwest Book Award for 2017, this beautifully illustrated work is the result of multiple collaborations. The book was published jointly by the University Press of Colorado and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, and the text was written by a team of scholars (Laurie Webster and Louise Stiver) and active Navajo weavers (D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete). As is the case with most natural history institutions, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science has the space to display only a small fraction of the material objects in its full collection. The publication of Navajo Textiles presents a wider range of the stunning Navajo weavings contained in the Crane Collection—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world—to a larger audience than the small group of scholars who might normally access the full assembly. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science hosted two different events for the general public highlighting both the book and samples from the collections, one in October and a second in April. Both were well attended, and gave the public the opportunity to learn more from both the scholars who study these textiles as well as the weavers who continue to produce new work today.
Cámara Retórica
This publication, winner of the 2017 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, is bit different of a departure for us, in that this non-traditional book consists of six video essays, or chapters, that connect film and video production, feminist filmmaking, and Rhetoric and Composition. A collaborative effort of Utah State University Press and the Computers and Composition Digital Press, Alexandra Hidalgo's Cámara Retórica is openly available as an online publication on the CCDP website. Click on the trailer to the right to learn more!
A History of Mortgage Banking in the West
The financial collapse of 2008, although a decade past, is still very much present in the minds of many who worry about the underlying strength of the market today. Given that the Great Recession was driven by bad bets in the subprime mortgage market, why not write a history of mortgage banking in Colorado and the West? That is exactly what mortgage banker Mike Rosser and historian Diane Sanders did, with support along the way from the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University. The combination of Sanders's writing talents and historical knowledge with Rosser's exceptional insider knowledge of the mortgage banking industry produced a highly readable and entertaining book on a subjed that might not obviously be either of those things at first blush. You can hear Mike Rosser talk about the book on Devil's Advocate with Jon Caldara and read more about the book in the Colorado Real Estate Journal.
Lynda Teller Pete
Lynda Teller Pete is a fifth-generation Navajo weaver who grew up weaving Two Grey Hills tapestries, taught by her mother and sisters. She has won several textile awards, including Best of Division and Best of Classification at the Santa Fe Indian Market in 2011 and Best of Division again in 2013. She also appeared in a 2016 segment of Craft in America.
Our Supporters
Grants and Donations
The University Press of Colorado is a 501(c)3 nonprofit membership organization that relies on the ongoing support of its members, as well as funds from other institutions, granting agencies, and individuals, to fulfill our mandate as a scholarly publisher. We thank the following institutions and individuals for their generous contributions to our publishing program this year.
- Augustana College, $1,000 in support of Leisure and Death edited by Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner
- Denver Museum of Nature & Science, $10,000 in support of Navajo Textiles by Laurie D. Webster, Louise I. Stiver, D. Y. Begay, and Lynda Teller Pete
- Knowledge Unlatched, $8,745 in support of Archaeological Perspectives of Warfare on the Great Plains edited by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth
- Montclair State University, $2,000 in support of Writing at the State U by Emily J. Isaacs
- Purdue University, $4,000 in support of The Internationalization of US Writing Programs edited by Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser
- Turner Endangered Species Fund, $5,000 in support of The Last Stand of the Pack by Arthur H. Carhart in collaboration with Stanley P. Young, edited by Andrew Gulliford and Tom Wolf
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, $2,000 in support of Life beyond the Boundaries edited by Karen G. Harry and Sarah Herr
- University of Victoria, $3,700 in support of Archaeology of the Night edited by Nancy Gonlin and April Nowell
- Vassar College, $900 in support of Words and Worlds Turned Around edited by David Tavárez
Contributions toward the University Press of Colorado Endowment Fund:
Director's Circle 2017–2018 ($500+ annually)
John F. Freeman |
Laura Furney |
Joyce Kinkead |
Darrin Pratt |
Don S. and Prudence M. Rice |
Mike Rosser |
Friends of the Press 2017–2018 ($100+ annually)
Anthony F. Aveni | Anis Bawarshi | Catherine Cameron | Richard W. Clement |
Bradford Cole | Catherine DiCesare | James Drake | Nancy Gonlin |
Scott Hutson | Suzanne Macaulay | John Marston | Barbara Mills |
Michael Palmquist | Jason Pierce | Bonnie Pitblado | Payson Sheets |
2017–2018 Donors
Rick A. Adams | Linda Adler-Kassner | Arturo Aldama | Dean E Arnold |
Marilyn Bell | Michel Besson | Marc Blainey | Richard Blanton |
Jelena Bogdanovic | Ann Brady | Galen Brokaw | Robert H Brunswig |
David M. Carballo | Ellen C. Carillo | Beth Chavez | Margaret Coel |
Chip Colwell | Barbara Couture | Jessica d'Arbonne | Russ Tobias Davidson |
Amy E Dayton | John Douglass | Sybil Downing | Alexander Drummond |
Alcira Duenas | E Paul Durrenberger | James Fitzgerald | Elizabeth A. Flynn |
Sarah R Graff | Eulogio Guzmán | Debora Hammond | Alexandra Hidalgo |
Lane R. Hirabayashi | Deborah H. Holdstein | Bruce Horner | Thomas Huber |
Eric E. Jones | Arthur Joyce | P. Nick Kardulias | Roger K. Kjelgren |
C. H. Knoblauch | Marcel Kornfeld | Barry Kroll | Lisa Langstraat |
R. Todd Laugen | Jongsoo Lee | Kelly Lenkevich | Kerry Lightenburger |
Matthew Looper | Jean A Luckowski | Moira Marsh | Sidney Eve Matrix |
Dan Miller | Darrel G. Morrison | Holley Moyes | Olaus Murie |
Heather Orr | Gisli Palsson | Rebecca Prentice | Timothy Pugh |
Ben Rafoth | Todd Ruecker | Steve Sabol | Jeffrey Safford |
Bettina Schultz | Clark Secrest | Faith Shearin | Lynn Sikkink |
John Sillito | Patricia Sotirin | Jim Steenburgh | Charlotte Steinhardt |
John A Straayer | April Summitt | Ruth M. Van Dyke | William A. Varga |
Nicole Wallack | Nancy Welch |
Contributions toward the General Fund:
2017–2018 Donors
Karin Larkin |
Rachael Levay |
Jared Orsi |
Daniel Pratt |
Beth Svinarich |
Member Institutions
Ongoing support for the publishing program at the University Press of Colorado is provided by the following sustaining members:
- Adams State University
- Colorado State University (Fort Collins/Pueblo)
- Fort Lewis College
- Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Regis University
- University of Colorado (Boulder/Colorado Springs/Denver)
- University of Northern Colorado
- Utah State University
- Western State Colorado University