Robert G. O'Meally won the Ninth Annual Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award for his book Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture.
The Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award is given to the Columbia University faculty member whose book published by the Press in the two years prior brings the highest distinction to Columbia University and Columbia University Press for its outstanding contribution to academic and public discourse. The winner is selected by the Distinguished Book Award jury, which is composed of current members of the Press’s Faculty Publication Committee.
Professor O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also founder and director of the Center for Jazz Studies.
