Awards 2012

Africa Yearbook, ISSN 1871-2525, has won the ASA 2012 Conover-Porter Book Award, awarded by The Africana Librarians Council of the African Studies Association

Atonement and the Logic of Resurrection in the Epistle to the Hebrews, ISBN 9789004206519, by David M. Moffitt, Ph.D has won one of the 2013 John Templeton Foundation's Manfred Lautenschlaeger Awards for Theological Promise (link to the announcement).

Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania. 'We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming, ISBN 9789004184688, has won the 2012 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize, awarded by The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology (http://www.ethnomusicology.org).

Sincere congratulations to Barry Dov Walfish and Mikhail Kizilov, whose edited work Bibliographia Karaitica was selected by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) as the winner of its 2012 Judaica Bibliography Award.  The AJL announcement notes the work "is a mammoth bibliography that captures every conceivable aspect of Karaite literature and culture" and "is not only the most comprehensive, superior bibliography in its field, but also a magnificent scholarly work that will stand out for its quality and serve generations of scholars for many years to come." Read more.