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Books published by AAUP member presses regularly
win awards from scholarly societies, regional institutions, and national
literary organizations. What follows is a partial list of prizes received
by our members, broken down by press.
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TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS
The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World
Jim Shultz
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2003
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, The Gustavus Myers Center
for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2003
Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics
Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy
Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association, 2003
Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, The Gustavus Myers Center
for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2003
The Virtual High School: Teaching Generation V
Andrew Zucker et al.
Top 100, District Administration Magazine, 2003
Educational Reform: A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir
Seymour Sarason
Top 100, District Administration Magazine, 2003
Free-Choice Science Education: How We Learn to Learn Science Outside
of School
John Falk
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
Manufacturing Hope an Despair: The School and Kin Support Networks
of US- Mexican Youth
Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar
Latino Section Award, American Sociological Association, 2003
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
The Testing Trap: How State Writing Assessments Control Learning
George Hillocks, Jr.
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power
John Agnew
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005
Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church
Lara Medina
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005
The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America
Rajini Srikanth
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005
Book Award, Cultural Studies, Association of Asian American Studies, 2004
The Philadelphia Area Weather Book
Jon Nese and Glenn "Hurricane"Schwartz
Louis J. Battan Author's Award, The American Meteorological Society, 2005
Mobilizing an Asian American Community
Linda Trinh Võ
Book Award in Social Sciences, Honorable Mention, Association of Asian American Studies, 2004
The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.
Lisa M. Fine
Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award of Distinction, Society of Automotive Historians, 2005
The Gold Standard: The Challenge of Evidence-Based Medicine and Standardization in Health Care
Stefan Timmermans and Marc Berg
Robert Merton Professional Book Award, American Sociological Association, 2005
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
Jane Golden, Robin Rice and Monica Yant Kinney, photographs by David Graham and Jack Ramsdale
Athenæum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award, 2004
Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition 187
Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop
Book of the Year, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2004
Mark Naison
Poe Award for Literary Excellence, Bronx County History Society
White Boy: A Memoir
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PRESS
Earthen Walls, Iron Men: Fort DeRussy, Louisiana and the Defense of Red River
Steven M. Mayeux
Albert Castel Book Award,
Kalamazoo Civil War Round Table, 2008
A. M. Pate, Jr. Award, 2007
The Patina of Place: The Cultural Weathering of a New England Industrial
Landscape
Kingston W. Heath
Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History,
2003
Abbott Lowell Cummings Award, Vernacular Architecture Forum, 2002
The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self
John C. Shields
Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association,
2003
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2001
A Companion to the New Harp of Columbia
Marion Hatchett
Research Excellence Award, East Tennessee Historical Society, 2003
A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court
James W. Ely, Jr., ed.
Tennessee History Book Award, Tennessee Library Association and
the Tennessee Historical Commission, 2003
Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience
Leonard Ray Teel
Best Biography, Georgia Author of the Year Awards, 2002
Frank Luther Mott Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award,
Kappa Tau Alpha, 2002
Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee: A Political Biography
Ann B. Irish
Tennessee History Book Award, Tennessee Library Association and
the Tennessee Historical Commission, 2002
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the
Sophists
Michael Gagarin
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, Texas Institute of
Letters, 2003
Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR
Frederick Wasser
Marshall McLuhan Award, Media Ecology Association, 2003
Semillas de Barbarita, la Murcielaga: Seeds from Little Barbara, the
Bat
Laura Navarro
Best Educational Children’s Book, Bilingual, honorable mention,
Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2003
Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History
Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
Good Neighbor Award, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2003
Texas Reference Source Award, Reference Round Table of the Texas
Library Association, 2003
The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California
Alejandro Murguia
Best Biography , Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2003
Oil in Texas: the Gusher Age, 1895-1945
Diana Davis Olien and Roger M. Olien
Publication Award, San Antonio Conservation Society, 2003
The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions
Jacinto Quirarte
Presidio La Bahia Award, The Sons of the Republic of Texas, 2002
Publication Award, San Antonio Conservation Society, 2003
Best Arts Book, honorable mention, Latino Literary Hall of Fame,
2003
Art and Society in a Highland Maya Community: The Altarpiece of Santiago
Atitlan
Allen J. Christenson
Book Award, honorable mention, Association of Latin American Art,
2002
Barrios Norteños: St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities
in the Twentieth Century
Dionicio Valdés
Book Award, Center for Great Lakes Culture, 2002
Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public
Discourse
Otto Santa Ana
Best Book, Ethnic and Racial Political Ideology and/or Political
Theory, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political
Science Association, 2002
Book Award, second place, history Latino Literary Hall of Fame,
2003
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West
Bobby Bridger
Book of the Year Award, gold, biography and autobiography, ForeWord
Magazine, 2002
Cultural Logics and Global Economies: Maya Identity in Thought and
Practice
Edward F. Fischer
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico: Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer
Museo Franz Mayer & Museum of Fine Art
Houston Publications Design Competition, honorable mention, American
Association of Museums, 2002
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen
Yosefa Loshitzky
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
Imagining Literacy: Rhizomesof Knowledge in American Culture and Literature
Ramona Fernandez
Frederick W. Ness Book Award, semi-finalist, Association of American
Colleges and Universities, 2002
The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society
in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1891
Juan Mora-Torres
Heritage Award Winner, Webb County Heritage Foundation, 2002
Passage to Dusk, by Rashid al-Daif
translated by Nirvana Tanoukhi
Translation Award, second round, American Literary Translators
Association, 2002
Pedro Paramo Juan Rulfo
Photos by Josephine Sacabo; trans. Margaret Sayers Peden
Fred Whitehead Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2003
Western Books Exhibition Winner, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003
Best Arts Book, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2003
Photo du Jour: A Picture-a-Day Journey through the First Year of the
New Millennium
David Hume Kennerly
Book of the Year, finalist, photography, ForeWord Magazine 2002
Western Books Exhibition Winner, Rounce & Coffin Club, 2003
A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City
James Diego Vigil
Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Politics in a Local or Urban Setting,
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section of the American Political Science
Association, 2002
Best History Book, honorable mention, Latino Literary Hall of Fame,
2003
Ralph W. Yarborough, the People’s Senator
Patrick Cox
Award of Merit, honorable mention, The Philosophical Society of
Texas 2002
Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White
Roots of Mexican Americans Martha Menchaca
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
Kenneth R. Godwin and Frank R. Kemerer
Book of the Year, bronze, education, ForeWord Magazine, 2002
Technology and Place
Steven A. Moore
Annual Research Award, Environmental Design Research Association,
2002
Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province
Daniel D. Arreola
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers,
2002
Publication Award Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society, 2003
Texas Mountains
Laurence Parent, photographs and Joe Nick Patoski, text
Mountain Image Award, finalist, Banff Mountain Book Festival, 2002
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2002
Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America
Jacqueline Barnitz
Vasari Award, Dallas Museum of Art, 2002
Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River’s Mouth
Nigel J.H. Smith
Book of the Year Award, finalist, environment, ForeWord Magazine,
2002
Wildflowers and Other Plants of Texas Beaches and Islands
Alfred Richardson
Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas, 2002
Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
Roberto J. González
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
The Diaries of Nikolay Punin, 1904-1953
translated by Jennifer Greene Krupala
PEN USA West Award
Contemporary Ranches of Texas
Lawrence Clayton; photographs by Wyman Meinzer
Award of Excellence, Southern Book Competition Awards, The Southeastern
Library Association, 2001
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TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imagining Flight: Aviation and Popular Culture
A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2004
A Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied
Joshua Brown
Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History, 2004
The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian
Far East
by Sharon Hudgins
Book of the Year Award, bronze, travel essay, ForeWord Magazine,
2004
The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
Mary Cimarolli
Pen/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, finalist, PEN
American Center, 2004
December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
William H. Bartsch
Arthur Goodzeit Award, New York Military Affairs Symposium, 2003
Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the Fifth Texas
Infantry
George Skoch and Mark Perkins
SCV-SGR Best Book on Texas in the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate
Veterans, 2003
Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels
and Chipyong-ni
Kenneth E. Hamburger
Distinguished Writing Awards, finalist, Army Historical Foundation,
2003
Writing JFK: Presidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs
Crisis
Thomas W. Benson
Everett Lee Hunt Award, Eastern Communication Association
The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
Paul H. Carlson
Rupert N. Richardson Prize, West Texas Historical Association
San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals
Judith Berg Sobre
T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award,Texas Historical Commission
Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression
Davis Houck
Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, National Communication Association,
2002
Racial Borders: Black Soldiers Along the Rio Grande
James N. Leiker
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2002
Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.,
Luciano Guajardo Historical Awareness Award, Webb County Heritage
Foundation, 2002
Healing Landscapes: A Journey from the Big Thicket to the Big Bend
Jeanne Norsworthy
Award of Merit, Western Books Exhibition, 2002
Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family
Jo Ella Powell Exley
Award of Merit, Western Books Exhibition, 2002
Summerfield G. Roberts Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas
Author of the Month, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Houston-area
Keepers of the Spirit: The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M University,
1876-2001
John A. Adams, Jr.
Award of Merit, Western Books Exhibition, 2002
Lighthouses of Texas
T. Lindsay Baker
Best Book Award, Foundation for Coast Guard History, 2001-2002
Texas Flags
Robert Maberry, Jr.
Ottis Lock Endowment Committee Best Book Award, East Texas Historical
Association, 2002
Her Act and Deed: Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873
Angela Boswell
Liz Carpenter Award, 2001-2002
An Ocean in Common: American Naval
Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment
Gary E. Weir
Richard W. Leopold Prize, The Organization of American Historians,
2002
Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999
Jorge Iber
Best First Book on Mormon History Award, Mormon History Association.
Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas
David Pickering and Judy Falls
Kate Broocks Bates Award, Texas State Historical Association.
Border Boss: Manuel B. Bravo and Zapata County
J. Gilberto Quezada
Certificate of Commendation Award, American Association for State
and Local History.
Knight without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958
Felix D. Almaraz
Certificate of Commendation Award, American Association for State
and Local History.
Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil
War
Stanley S. McGowen
Summerfield G. Roberts Book Award
Close Calls: Jan Reid's Texas
Jan Reid
Carr P. Collins Award, finalist, Texas Institute of Letters
The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845
F. Todd Smith
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, finalist, Texas Institute
of Letters
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TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY PRESS
American Silk, 1830-1930: Entrepreneurs and Artifacts
Jacqueline Field, Marjorie Senechal and Madelyn Shaw
Millia Davenport Publication Award, 2008
A Thousand Miles of Stars
Walt McDonald
Spur Award, Poetry, Western Writers of America, 2005
Keeping My Name
Catherine Tufariello
Poets’ Prize, West Chester University Poetry Center, 2005
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Poetry Finalist, 2004
Whatever the Wind Delivers
Walt McDonald and photographs selected by Janet Neugebauer
Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Poetry Book, National Cowboy
Hall of Fame.
Natalie Ornish Award for Poetry, Texas Institute of Letters.
Miriam Vermilya
Ohio Poet of the Year
Heartwood
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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
A Rhetoric of the Decameron
Marilyn Migiel
Howard R. Marraro Prize, Modern Language Association, 2004
The Politics of Population: State Formation, Statistics, and the Census
of Canada, 1840-1875
Bruce Curtis
John Proter Prize, Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association,
2002
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2002
Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada
Patrick Macklem
Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, 2002
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Providence of a Sparrow
Chris Chester
Oregon Book Award, cowinner, creative nonfiction, Literary Arts,
2004
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UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
Barre Toelken
Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2004
Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories
Patricia Sawin
Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society, 2004
A Widow’s Tale: The 1884–1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Charles M. Hatch and Todd Compton, editors
Best Documentary Award, Mormon History Association, 2004
Willa Literary Award Finalist, Women Writing the West, 2004
The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship
Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead, Editors
WPA Best Book Award, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, 2004
IWCA Outstanding Book on Writing Center Research, 2004
Pedro Pino: Governor of Zuni Pueblo, 1830–1878
E. Richard Hart
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico, 2003
English Composition as a Happening
Geoffrey Sirc
W. Ross Winterowd Award, Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition,
2003
One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
Ronald O. Barney
Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association, 2002
Evans Biography Award, Utah State University, 2002
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler's Life of "Unselfish
Usefulness"
Margaret K. Brady
Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize, American Folk Society, women's section,
2002
Noise from the Writing Center
Elizabeth H. Boquet
Outstanding Research and Publication Award, Learning Assistance
Association of New England, 2002
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS
Singing in the Saddle: The History of the Singing Cowboy
Douglas B. Green
Western Heritage Award, non-fiction, The National Cowboy &
Western Heritage
Museum, 2003
A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry
Charles K. Wolfe
ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, pop category, The American Society of
Composers, Authors, and Publishers
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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the "Fighting Editor," John
Mitchell Jr.
Anne Field Alexander
Richard Slatten Prize, Virginia Historical Society for Virginia
biography, 2002
Letters of Matthew Arnold Vol. 6
Matthew Arnold, indexed by Margie Towery
HW Wilson Award, American Society of Indexers, 2002
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Robin Blaetz
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2002
Two Novels by Mary Chesnut
Mary Chesnut
John Esten Cooke Fiction Award, Military Order of Stars & Bars,
2002
Exile in Richmond
Michael Chesson/ Leslie Jean Roberts, editors
Founders Award, Museum of Confederacy, 2001-2002
Apostles of Disunion
Charles Dew
Fletcher Pratt Literary Award, Civil War Round Table New York,
2002
Seaborg Award, honorable mention, Shepherd College Center for CW
Studies, 2002
The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800
Christopher Ehret
Book Award, finalist, World History Association, 2002
Edna Lewis
Hall of Fame Award, James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Cookbook,
2003
In Pursuit of Flavor (singled out as part of qualifying body of
work)/p>
The Tyranny of Printers
Jeffrey Pasley
Book Prize, history division, Association for Education in Journalism,
2002
Journey on the James
Earl Swift
Book Prize, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2002
Papers of GW: Presidential Series, Vol. 11
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government,
2002
Starving on a Full Stomach:Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism
in Modern South Africa
Diana Wylie
Herskovitz Award, African Studies Association, 2002
Escaping God's Closet
Bernard Duncan Mayes
Lambda Literary Award in Spirituality and Religion, Lambda Literary
Foundation, 2002
The Letters of Matthew Arnold
edited by Cecil Lang,indexed by Margie Towery
Award for Excellence in Indexing, The American Society of Indexers,
2002
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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS
Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Ramya Sreenivasan
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, 2009
Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká : Russians in Tlingit America : The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804
Richard Dauenhauer, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black
Alaskana of the Year Award, Alaska Library Association, 2009
American Book Award, 2008
Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875
Russell A. Potter
Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence, 2009 (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
Artisans in Early Imperial China
Anthony Barbieri-Low
Levenson Book Prize (for a book on pre-1900 China), Association for Asian Studies, 2009
Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association, 2009
James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association, 2009
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009
Bookbuilders West Certificate of Jacket Design Excellence, 2009 (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan
Joyce Brodsky
Ashley Saleeba, designer
Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence, 2008
Homebase: A Novel
Shawn Wong
Tom Eykemans, designer
Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence, 2009
Beyond Literary Chinatown
Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2008
The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area
Richard A. Walker
Finalist for the Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America, 2008
Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901
Carol Gold
Gourmand World Cookbooks Award, 2008
Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for History /Biography, 2008
Two Medals for Design from the Publishers Association of the West, 2008 (Jacket: Ashley Saleeba; Interior: Veronica Seyd)
Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
Coll Thrush
Washington State Book Award for History / Biography, 2008
The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
Marianne Kamp
Heldt Prize, Association of Women in Slavic Studies, 2008
Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book Award, 2008
W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, Honorable Mention, 2008
The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture
Alex T. Anderson
Ashley Saleeba, designer
Winner of a Bookbuilders West Jacket Design Award, 2008
Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Life: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival
Ann Fienup-Riordan
Victor Turner Prize, Honorable Mention, American Association of Anthropology, 2008
William Mills Prize for Polar Book, Honorable Mention, 2008
Light's Ladder
Christopher Howell
Washington State Book Award, Seattle Public Library Foundation and Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi, 2005
Manchus and Han: Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing
and Early Republican China, 1861-1928
Edward J.M. Rhoads
Joseph Levenson Book Prize, post-1900 category, 2002
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WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Restless Northwest: A Geological Story
Hill Williams
Washington State Book Award, The Washington Center for the Book
at The Seattle Public Library, 2003
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WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
A Hanging in Detroit: Stephen Gifford Simmons and the Last Execution
Under Michigan Law
David G. Chardavoyne
Michigan Notable Book, Library of Michigan Foundation, 2004
Michigan's Early Military Forces: A Roster and History of Troops Activated
Prior to the American Civil War
Le Roy Barnett and Roger Rosentreter
Michigan Notable Book, Library of Michigan Foundation, 2004
Riding the Roller Coaster: A History of the Chrysler Corporation
Charles K. Hyde
Michigan Notable Book, Library of Michigan Foundation, 2004
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WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Versed
Rae Armantrout
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2009
Born to Slow Horses
Kamau Brathwaite
Griffin Poetry Prize, 2006 International Award
Lee Ann Brown
Fellow, Howard Foundation, 2004-2005
The Sleep That Changed Everything
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003
Jean Valentine
National Book Award, poetry, 2004
Transsexualism: Illusion & Reality
Colette Chiland, translated by Philip Slotkin
Gradiva Award, finalist, Historical, Cultural & Literary Analysis
category, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis,
2004
The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics
Barrett Watten
René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association,
2004
Jerome Rothenberg
Alfonso X el Sabio Award, San Diego State University, 2004
Writing Through: Translations and Variations
Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture
Ann Daly
Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, finalist, University Co-Operative
Society, University of Texas, 2004
Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation
and Power
Anthony Shay
Kurt Weill Prize, honorable mention, Kurt Weill Foundation for
Music, 2003
The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves and Popular Culture
in Cali, Columbia
Lise A. Waxer
Alan P. Merriam Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2003
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, popular music books, American Society
of Composers, Authors & Publishers, 2003
Culture on Ice: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning
Ellyn Kestnbaum
NASSH Book Award, shortlist, North American Society for Sport History,
2003
Eyeshot
Heather McHugh
Book of the Year Award, finalist, poetry, ForeWord Magazine, 2003
Honorée Fannone Jeffers
Outlandish Blues
Alan Collins Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference,
2003
Perspectives on Korean Dance
Judy Van Zile
CORD Outstanding Publication Award, Congress on Research in Dance
Treadwinds: poems and intermedia texts
Walter K. Lew
Asian American Literary Award, poetry category,The Asian American
Writers’ Workshop, 2003
PEN Center USA Literary Award, finalist, poetry, PEN Center USA
, 2002
Banda: Mexican Musical Life Across Borders
Helena Simonett
Book Award, runner-up, International Association for the Study
of Popular Music, 2003
The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record Grooves, and Popular Culture
in Cali, Colombia
Lise Waxer
Best Research in Recorded Folk or Ethnic Music, finalist, Association
for Recorded Sound Collections, 2003
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WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century
R. Bruce Elder
Robert Motherwell Book Award, Dedalus Foundation, 2009
A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson's Bay Company Winterer
Edited by Barbara Belyea
Margaret McWilliams Medal, Manitoba Historical Society, 2002
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine
Iris Bruce
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2009
Plotting History: The Russian Historical Novel in the Imperial Age
Dan Ungurianu
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2009
Wisconsin Votes: An Electoral History
Robert Booth Fowler
Winner of Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History, 2009
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Steven D. Hoelscher
Winner of Award of Merit, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2009
Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir
Maureen Seaton
Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Memoir, Lambda Literary Foundation, 2009
Big Trips: More Good Gay Travel Writing
Raphael Kadushin
Finalist, Lambda Book Award for Gay Anthology, Lambda Literary Foundation, 2009
Around the Shores of Lake Superior: A Guide to Historic Sites, Second Edition
Margaret Beattie Bogue
Best Midwest Regional Interest Book, Midwest Book Awards, 2008
Award of Merit for Leadership in History, American Association for State and Local History, 2008
Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African War
Nina Newington
George Bugnet Prize for Best Novel, Writers Guild of Alberta, 2008
I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
Jean Feraca
August Derleth Book-length Non-fiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2008
Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory
Guy Beiner
Winner of the Wayland Hand Competition for outstanding publication in folklore and history, American Folklore Society, 2008
Long List, Cundill International Prize in History, McGill University, 2008
Finalist, NCPH award for the best book on public history, National Council on Public History, 2008
The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics
Jonathan Wyn Schofer
Notable Selection, Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Association for Jewish Studies, 2008
Meditations on Rising and Falling
Philip Pardi
Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, The Poetry Society of America, 2008
The End of the World Book: A Novel
Alistair McCartney
Finalist, Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, The Publishing Triangle, 2008
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto Gonza?Llez
Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2007
Finalist, Randy Shilts Awards for Gay Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle, 2007
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Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States
Trita Parsi
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville, 2010
What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
Keith E. Stanovich
Grawemeyer Award in Education, University of Louisville, 2010
The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
James Boyle
Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in
Communications Policy Research, Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham University, 2008
The Comanche Empire
Pekka Hämäläinen
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2009
Chinese Calligraphy
Zhongshi Ouyang and Shizheng Wang
Award for Excellence in Humanities; Art & Art History, 2008 PROSE Awards
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000BC-AD1000
Barry Cunliffe
World History & Biography/Autobiography Award, 2008 PROSE Awards
All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World
Stuart B. Schwartz
Cundill International Prize and Lecture in History, McGill University, 2008
Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes
Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver
National Outdoor Book Award, History/Biography, 2008
Foxbats over Dimona
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Washington Book Institute Prize, Silver Prize 2008
The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on
the Internet
Daniel J. Solove
Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research Book
Award, McGannon Center, 2007
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal
National Book Critics Circle Award, Biography, 2007
Spiritual Radical: Abraham Joshua Herschel in America
Edward K. Kaplan
National Jewish Book Award,
American Jewish Studies, 2007
Churchill's Promised Land: Zionism and Statecraft
Michael Makovsky
National Jewish Book Award, History, 2007
Eva Hesse Scylpture
Elisabeth Sussman and Fred Wasserman
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Visual Arts, 2007
John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
Arthur H. Cash
Pulitzer Prize, History Finalist, 2007
Crush
Richard Siken
The National Book Critics Circle Award, Poetry Finalist, 2006
Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, 18th Annual Triangle Awards, 2006
Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic
Erskine Clarke
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2006
The Arts and the Creation of Mind
Elliot W. Eisner
Grawemeyer Award, education, University of Louisville, 2005
Jonathan Edwards: A Life
George M. Marsden
Grawemeyer Award, religion, University of Louisville, 2005
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2004
Bicycle: The History
David V. Herlihy
PSP Book Award, History of Science, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
Dr. Dolittle’s Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language
Stephen R Anderson
PSP Book Award, Psychology, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
American Judaism: A History
Jonathan D. Sarna
PSP Book Award, Religion, Honorable Mention, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, 2004
The Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490-1498
Donalde Beebe, Anne Borelli, and Maria Pastore Passaro
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, Modern Language Assocation, 2004
American Judaism
Jonathan Sarna
Book of the Year, National Jewish Book Awards, 2004
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American
South,1670-1717
Allan Gallay
Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2003
Ben Franklin
Edmund Morgan
National Book Critics Circle Award, 2002
Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation
Moshe Idel
Koret Jewish Book Award, philosophy/thought, Koret Foundation,
2002
Print the Legend: Photography and the American West
Martha Sandweiss
William P. Clements Prize, Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
2002
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