Gordon J. Laing Prize
The Gordon J. Laing Prize is awarded annually by the University of Chicago Press to the faculty author, editor or translator of a book published in the previous three years that brings the Press the greatest distinction.
- W. J. T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
2006 - Bill Brown
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
2005 - Jonathan Hall
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
2004 - Robert J. Richards
The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
2003 - Bruce Lincoln
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
2002 - François Furet
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
2001 - James Chandler
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
2000 - André LaCocque & Paul Ricoeur
Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies
1999 - Martin E. Marty
Modern American Religion: In Three Volumes
1998 - Marshall Sahlins
How “Natives” Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
1997 - Mitchell, W.J.T.
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
1996 - Edward Laumann, Robert Michael, and Stuart Michaels
The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
1995 - David McNeill
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought
1994 - Gerald N. Rosenberg
The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
1993 - Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
1992
- Leszek Kolakowski
Modernity on Endless Trial
1991 - Richard G. Klein
The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
1990 - S. Chandrasekhar
Truth and Beauty
1989 - David Grene
Herodotus: The History (translation)
1988 - Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
The Founders’ Constitution. In Five Volumes
1987 - Mircea Eliade
A History of Religious Ideas. In Three Volumes
1986 - Paul Ricoeur
Time and Narrative. Volume 1
1985 - Richard Hellie
Slavery in Russia, 1450–1725
1984 - Anthony C. Yu
The Journey to the West. In Four Volumes
1983 - James M. Gustafson
Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics
1982 - Wayne C. Booth
Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
1981 - Morris Janowitz
The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America
1980 - Alan Gewirth
Reason and Morality
1979 - Sewall Wright
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
1978 - Marshall Sahlins
Culture and Practical Reason
1977 - Keith Michael Baker
Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
1976
- Eric W. Cochrane
Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
1975 - Stuart M. Tave
Some Words of Jane Austen
1974 - Edward Shils
The Intellectuals and the Powers
1973 - Edwarad Wasiolek
The Notesbooks of Dostoevsky. In Five Volumes
1972 - Herrlee G. Creel
The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
1971 - Gerald D. Suttles
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
1970 - Leonard B. Meyer
Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture
1969 - Philip Foster
Education and Social Change in Ghana
1968 - Donald F. Lach
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2
1967 - A. Leo Oppenheim
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
1966 - Tang Tsou
America’s Failure in China1941-1950
1965 - William H. McNeill
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
1964 - Bernard Weinberg
A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance
1963