Professor Ronald Zboray and Mary Zboray win the E. Jennifer Monaghan Triennal Book Award
Professor Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, a visiting scholar,
have received the E. Jennifer Monaghan Triennal Book Award for their book
Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders (University of Tennessee Press 2006) as the best book published over the past three years in the History of Literacy.
The award is presented by the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, "the world's leading organization of literacy professionals." The organization was founded in 1956 and with more than 85,000 members, are "committed to worldwide literacy," through Improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit.
The award citation reads, in part, "Everyday Ideas is a meticulous--and beautifully produced--account of how literature was interpreted, shared and rendered meaningful by New Englanders from the 1820s to the beginning of the Civil War.... The depth and breadth of [its] research are extraordinary.... Everyday Ideas is a masterful study of what reading meant to unremarkable people and a worthy winner of the History of Reading SIG's 2009 book award."
The Zborays will be receiving the award at the organization's annual convention in Chicago in April 2010.
