Rosalind Morris wins 2026 Lionel Trilling Book Award

Rosalind Morris has received this year's Lionel Trllling Book Award for Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa (Columbia UP, 2025). The honor, established in 1976 in honor of Lionel Trilling CC 1925, GSAS 1938, is awarded annually to a member of the faculty whose book was published in the previous year and upholds a level of excellence commensurate with Trilling’s legacy. Trilling, a gifted and dedicated Columbia professor committed to undergraduate education, was also a public intellectual known for his scholarship and literary criticism. Morris receive the award at a ceremony on May 6.