The most recent book by Clyde Ellis, associate professor of history, titled “The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns,” (Nebraska 2002) has been nominated for the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 2003 Alan P. Merriam Prize for the most distinguished English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology. The book was previously nominated for the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s 2002 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and was on Choice magazine’s list of the most significant university press titles published in 2001–2002.