Thomas N. Bonner Award
The Award
The Bonner Award is named in honor of Dr. Thomas N. Bonner, past president of Wayne State University and The Academy of Scholars. In the spirit of Dr. Bonner's commitment to strengthening programs in arts and sciences, the prize was established in 2000 to recognize the best recent book in English on the theory and practices of the Liberal Arts, with special consideration given to studies bridging the "two cultures" of the sciences and the humanities.
A monetary prize is awarded in a two-year cycle to a book published within the cycle. In the second year, a Call for Nominations is issued with an early December deadline. All nominations must be accompanied by two copies of a book, as indicated in the instructions below. The recipient of the Prize is announced by spring of the following year and the author(s) invited to participate in a symposium on the book in the fall on the Wayne State University campus.
2018-19 Competition
The winner of the 2018-19 competition has been announced!
| 2018-19 |
| A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes |
Past Recepients
| 2012-13 |
| The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art Citation |
| 2008-09 |
| Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism Citation |
| 2006-07 |
| Echo Objects: The Transformative Work of Images Citation |
| 2004-05 |
| The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society |
| 2002-03 |
| How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science |
| 2000-01 |
| The Sacred and the Secular University |
Contact
For further information, contact Robert N. Frank, M.D. The Robert S. Jampel, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Anatomy/Cell Biology at rnfrank@med.wayne.edu or telephone at (313) 577-7613. Books to be sent as entries in the next award competition should be sent to Dr. Frank at the Kresge Eye Institute, 4717 Saint Antoine Street, Detroit, MI 48201.