Nominations for TAA’s 2024 Textbook Awards is now open. Recognize your textbook today by nominating it for one our industry-respected awards:
McGuffey Longevity Award – to recognize long-standing textbooks and learning materials that have been in print for at least 15 years.
Textbook Excellence Award – to recognize excellence in current textbooks and learning materials.
Most Promising New Textbook Award – to recognize promising textbooks and learning materials in their first edition.
TAA Member Phil Wankat, who joined TAA in 1989, pored over his archival issues of the TAA Report (now The Academic Author), selected articles that have information that is still valid today, and included commentary on each. We will be adding these articles to the web page, “Articles from TAA Report Archives (now The Academic Author) with Commentary,” over the next few months. The articles are organized into 10 categories, including Authors Needed, Cartoons, Contracts, Ethics, Money, Production, Recognition and Rewards, Software, Textbooks as Scholarship, and Writer’s Block. The first installment is Authors Needed.
TAA member Juli Saitz, a Certified Public Accountant at HKA, has received a Recommended ranking by Who’s Who in Legal, which identifies the foremost legal practitioners in multiple areas of business law. WWL says: WWL says; “Juli Saitz is held in high regard for her profound skill when it comes to providing expert testimony in IP-related litigation involving damages and valuation issues.” Congratulations Juli!
TAA member Jean Derricotte-Murphy, D.Min., Ph.D, is under contract with Cascade Books to publish her first book, A View From the Balcony: Opera Through Womanist Eyes, in early 2024. Excerpted from the book’s abstract: “..this work offers the reader a historical glance at the philosophical and religious underpinnings of systemic racism by presenting a new healing hermeneutic, a Balcony Hermeneutic, from which to view, critique, assess, correct, and reverse the devastating effects Anthropological Poverty has inflicted upon the world.” She will also be presenting the paper “Beloved, Margaret Garner, and the Desperate Flight to Freedom” at the November 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in San Antonio Texas. Congratulations Jean!
Welcome to the new members of TAA who have joined us in the past two weeks. With TAA membership, you are not alone. You become part of a diverse community of textbook and academic authors with similar interests and goals. We are so glad to have you.
Adeli Cortez | Pattie Dillon | Gisela Esteva | Gislene Ferreira dos Reis |Ashley Frutos | Belle Fuller | Carla Guice | Robert Manske | Andrea Monteverdi | Terri Peerenboom | Mariah Phillips | Kenny Roberts | Ian Van Deventer | Tashea Walker | Yong Kuk Yu | Kelly Zinn
TAA member Margarita Huerta, PhD, writer and Founder of Real Academics, reached the 1,000 mark for citations on her Google Scholar profile on August 25, 2023.
Her top three most cited articles (out of 20 articles tracked by Google) include:
