Recent Awards

see also: Awards by Title, All Awards by Author,
or Book of the Year Citations

Awards Presented to Harvard University Press Authors

GEORGE M. WHITESIDES
2009 DREYFUS PRIZE IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Awarded by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
TOM GRIFFITHS
2008 PRIME MINISTER'S PRIZE FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
Awarded by the Prime Minister of Australia
ROGER B. MYERSON
2007 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
CHARLES TAYLOR
2007 TEMPLETON PRIZE
For Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities
ROBERT L. TRIVERS
2007 CRAFOORD PRIZE IN BIOSCIENCES
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
EDMUND S. PHELPS
2005 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

The 2006 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2006
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
2005 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

2005 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and Its Archetype
Alexander Alexakis
Codex Parisinus Graecus 1115 and Its Archetype has been awarded the Giovanni-Domenico Mansi Prize, sponsored by the Societas Internationalis Historiae Conciliorum Investigandae and the Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum
Spinal Cord Injury and the Family
A New Guide
Michelle J. Alpert, M.D.
Saul Wisnia
A 2008 Library Journal Best Consumer Health Book
The Betrayal of Faith
The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert
Emma Anderson
2008 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion
Killing for Coal
America's Deadliest Labor War
Thomas G. Andrews
2009 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History, American Society for Environmental History
2009 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
2009 Vincent P.DeSantis Book Prize, sponsored by The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
2009 Colorado Book Award, History Category
2009 Spence Award, Mining History Association
Honorable Mention, 2009 Hundley Prize, awarded by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
Finalist, 2009 Clements Prize, awarded by the Clements Center at SMU, Southwest History category
Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton Firestone Library
Audubon: Early Drawings
John James Audubon
Introduction by Richard Rhodes
2008 PINE (Printing Industries of New England) Pinnacle Award
Beyond the Zonules of Zinn
A Fantastic Journey Through Your Brain
David Bainbridge
A Booklist Top 10 Sci-Tech book of 2008
A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008
Possessing the Pacific
Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska
Stuart Banner
2008 World History Association Book Prize
The Fires of Vesuvius
Pompeii Lost and Found
Mary Beard
A San Francisco Chronicle Top 50 Nonfiction Book of 2008
The Roman Triumph
Mary Beard
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year
The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
Translated by David R. Slavitt
A Books & Culture 2008 Book of the Year
Journey to the East
The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579–1724
Liam Matthew Brockey
2007 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Book Award
2007 Honorable Mention, World History and Biography/Autobiography, PSP Awards for Excellence, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
2007 John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Timothy Brook
Jérôme Bourgon
Gregory Blue
2008 Finalist for the The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publisher, World History and Biography/Autobiography Category
The Reaper's Garden
Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Vincent Brown
2009 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
2009 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
2008-2009 Louis Gottschalk Prize, sponsored by the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Louis Gottschalk Committee
Prague in Black
Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism
Chad Bryant
Honorable Mention 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Prize awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)
2008 Hans Rosenberg Prize, Conference Group for Central European History
Michael Rockefeller
New Guinea Photographs, 1961
Kevin Bubriski
Foreword by Robert Gardner
Photographs by Michael Rockefeller
2007 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Third Place Winner, Photography Category
Winner of 2008 Benjamin Franklin Award Interior Design 1-2 Color, Independent Book Publishers Association
Primeval Kinship
How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
Bernard Chapais
Finalist, 2008 The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers, Biological Sciences Category
Deliverance and Submission
Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea
Kelly H. Chong
Best book prize, American Sociological Association Sociology of Religion Section
Rescuing Justice and Equality
G. A. Cohen
Winner of the Best Book in Social Philosophy Award, North American Society for Social Philosophy
Fatal Misconception
The Struggle to Control World Population
Matthew Connelly
A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2008
An Economist Book of the Year in Science and Technology
Stealing Lincoln's Body
Thomas J. Craughwell
Amazon.com, A Top 100 Book of the Year
Remembering Awatovi
The Story of an Archaeological Expedition in Northern Arizona, 1935-1939
Hester A. Davis
2009 Gold Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, West-Mountain-Best Regional Non-Fiction Category
That the World May Know
Bearing Witness to Atrocity
James Dawes
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Peacemaker of the Year Category
Sexual Fluidity
Understanding Women's Love and Desire
Lisa M. Diamond
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gay/Lesbian Category
2009 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues Distinguished Book Award, American Psychological Association
A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
Jim Endersby
2004 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction
Cold War at 30,000 Feet
The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy
Jeffrey A. Engel
2008 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association
On Zion's Mount
Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Jared Farmer
2009 Francis Parkman Prize, The Society of American Historians
2009 Award of Merit from The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
2008 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Utah History Book Award
Hispaniola
A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity
Eladio Fernández
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Silver Medal, 2008 Nautilus Book Awards, Animals/Nature category
No Small Matter
Science on the Nanoscale
Felice C. Frankel
George M. Whitesides
Felice C. Frankel is winner of the Photographic Society of America's 2009 Progress Medal
On the Surface of Things
Images of the Extraordinary in Science
Felice C. Frankel
George M. Whitesides
2007 Lennart Nilsson Award for Medical, Technical & Scientific Photography
Democracy's Prisoner
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg
2008 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History
Finalist, 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Biography Category
Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche
Finalist for 2008 Cundill International Prize in History, sponsored by McGill University's Dean of Arts, with the help of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Recognition of Excellence Award at the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History at McGill University
Making Dead Birds
Chronicle of a Film
Robert Gardner
Honorable Mention, 2008 New England Museum Association Book Award for Books over $10.00
Jerusalem
City of Longing
Simon Goldhill
2009 Gold Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, History Category
The Race between Education and Technology
Claudia Goldin
Lawrence F. Katz
2008 R.R. Hawkins Award, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers
2009 The Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Risa Goluboff
Co-winner, 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
Slicing the Silence
Voyaging to Antarctica
Tom Griffiths
2007 Queensland Premier's Non-fiction Book Award
2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
What Blood Won't Tell
A History of Race on Trial in America
Ariela J. Gross
Co-Winner 2009 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
Co-Winner 2009 Lilian Smith Book Awards, the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia
American Mediterranean
Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation
Matthew Pratt Guterl
Honorable Mention, 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Association
Law and Judicial Duty
Philip Hamburger
2009 Paolucci/Bagehot book award, sponsored by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
William V. Harris
William V. Harris is Recipient of the 2007 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award
Biobazaar
The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology
Janet Hope
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category
Ghettostadt
Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City
Gordon J. Horwitz
Finalist, 2008 National Jewish Book Awards, Holocaust Category
Mean and Lowly Things
Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
Kate Jackson
A Library Journal Best Sci-Tech book of 2008
Divided by Faith
Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe
Benjamin J. Kaplan
2008 Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion, Historical Studies category
Inheriting the City
The Children of Immigrants Come of Age
Philip Kasinitz
John H. Mollenkopf
Mary C. Waters
Jennifer Holdaway
2009 Mirra Komarovsky Award, sponsored by the Eastern Sociological Society
The Sandbox Investment
The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics
David L. Kirp
2007 PSP Award for Excellence, Education Category, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
San Francisco Chronicle A Best Book of the Year
Flesh Made Word
Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
Aviad Kleinberg
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
2009 Bronze Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category
The New Nuns
Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s
Amy L. Koehlinger
2009 Eric Hoffer Book Award, Culture Category
Measuring Up
What Educational Testing Really Tells Us
Daniel Koretz
2009 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
1812
War with America
Jon Latimer
2008 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award, US History
Police Interrogation and American Justice
Richard A. Leo
2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Dry Manhattan
Prohibition in New York City
Michael A. Lerner
Washington Post Book World Top 100 Nonfiction Book of 2007
Washington Post Critic Jonathan Yardley's Top 10 of 2007
Slate Best Books of the Year selection
The Accidental Mind
How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
David J. Linden
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category
Inside Beethoven's Quartets
History, Performance, Interpretation
Lewis Lockwood
2009 Silver Winner Independent Publisher Book Awards, Performing Arts Category
Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Tina Lu
2008 Ranis Prize, Yale University
Samuel Johnson
A Biography
Peter Martin
Kansas City Star Top 10 Notable Book of 2008
Prophet of Innovation
Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction
Thomas K. McCraw
Best Business Books of 2007 selection, Library Journal
2008 Hagley Prize in Business History, The Business History Conference & The Hagley Museum
2008 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award, History of Economics Society
2008 Schumpeter Prize Competition, sponsored by The International Joseph Alois Schumpeter Society
A Spectator Best Read of 2008 Selection
Clinging to Mammy
The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America
Micki McElya
2007 Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought
Margaret Meserve
2008 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, American Historical Association
2009 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America
The Divine Nature of Power
Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci
Tracy Miller
2007 Southeastern College Art Conference's annual Award for Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication
Becoming Free in the Cotton South
Susan Eva O'Donovan
2008 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
The Faithful
A History of Catholics in America
James M. O'Toole
2009 New England Historical Association Book Award
Guernica and Total War
Ian Patterson
A Times Best History Book of the Year
Fruits and Plains
The Horticultural Transformation of America
Philip J. Pauly
2009 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award, General Interest Category
Rewarding Work
How to Restore Participation and Self-Support to Free Enterprise, with a New Preface
Edmund S. Phelps
Edmund S. Phelps is Winner of the 2006 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science
The First Emperor
China's Terracotta Army
Edited by Jane Portal
2007 The Washington Post Travel Gift Book Selection
Egg & Nest
Rosamond Purcell
Linnea S. Hall
René Corado
A Slate 2008 Best Book of the Year
Powerful and Brutal Weapons
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive
Stephen P. Randolph
2008 Best Air Power History Book Award, The Air Force Historical Foundation
Her Brilliant Career
The Life of Stella Miles Franklin
Jill Roe
2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards (History Book Award sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, University of Queensland).
The Crimea Question
Identity, Transition, and Conflict
Gwendolyn Sasse
2008 Alexander Nove Prize in Russia, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Americans All
The Cultural Gifts Movement
Diana Selig
Honorable Mention, 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Comrades!
A History of World Communism
Robert Service
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, History Category
Burning to Read
English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents
James Simpson
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category
The Fire Spreads
Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South
Randall J. Stephens
2008 Smith-Wynkoop Book Award, Wesleyan Theological Society
Learning a New Land
Immigrant Students in American Society
Carola Suárez-Orozco
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Irina Todorova
2007 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, awarded annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society
Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America
Matthew Avery Sutton
2007 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is Winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize
Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007 Selection
2008 Christianity Today Book Award, History/Biography
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
A Tablet Best Book of the Year
2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award given by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2008
Green Sisters
A Spiritual Ecology
Sarah McFarland Taylor
First Place 2008 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, Social Concerns and Gender Issues Categories
Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance
Claire Van Cleave
2007 The Globe and Mail Holiday Gift Book Selection
Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
Karel van der Toorn
Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Religion Category
Hunger
A Modern History
James Vernon
Co-Winner, 2008 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
2008 Norris Hundley Award, Sponsored by the Pacific Branch of the AHA
The Discovery of Global Warming
Spencer R. Weart
A Discover Top Science Book of the Year
A USA Today Best Book of the Year
Benjamin's -abilities
Samuel Weber
An Artforum Best Book of 2008
Lake Views
This World and the Universe
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg is Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
That Neutral Island
A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War
Clair Wills
2007 Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, English PEN
2007 Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture, American Conference for Irish Studies
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
An Irish Times Best Book of the Year
Nexus
Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I
Jonathan Reed Winkler
2008 Theodore & Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize. sponsored by the FDR Presidential Library, Roosevelt Institute, Theodore Roosevelt Association and the New York Council, Navy League of the U.S.
2009 Distinguished Publication Award, Ohio Academy of History
LBJ
Architect of American Ambition
Randall B. Woods
A Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

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