Baldridge Book Award
The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce the 2025 Baldridge Book Award winners for Fall 2025.
Professor Quan Ha:
Face to Face with the CIA: The Memoir of a North Vietnamese Spy, by Nguyen Tai. Translated by Quan Manh Ha and Merle Pribbenow (forthcoming with Columbia University Press).
The memoir documents Nguyen Tai’s nearly five-year captivity, during which South Vietnamese intelligence, security forces, and the American CIA subjected him to the full range of their interrogation methods in an effort to uncover his secrets.
Regent Professor Anya Jabour:
Decades before Alfred Kinsey published his provocative studies of human sexuality, Katharine Bement Davis conducted a revelatory study of women's sexuality. Published in 1929, Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two Hundred Women both documented and drove America's first sexual revolution and shaped the study of sex and understandings of female sexuality for generations to come. Matters of Sex: Katharine Bement Davis and America's First Sexual Revolution (forthcoming, NYU Press) is the first full-length biography of a remarkable woman whose legacy still resonates today.
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