The winner won’t be announced until later this summer, but here are the top six contenders for NEPCA’s Rollins Book Prize:
| Author | Book Title | Publisher |
| Charles Seife | Virtual Unreality | Viking Press |
| Chris Smith | The View from the Back of the Band | University of North Texas Press |
| Kimberly Chabot Davis | Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading | University of Illinois Press |
| Mariah Adin | The Brooklyn Thrill-Kill Gang and the Great Comic Book Scare of the 1950s | Praeger |
| Matthew Hughey | The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption | Temple University Press |
| Thomas Stubblefield | 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster | Indiana University Press |
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