Recent Awards and Prizes
See also: Book of the Year Citations | The Virginia and Warren Stone Prize | The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
2023
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Autobiograpy & Biography
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
Finalist, 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, PEN America
Business & Economics
The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism
2023 Ed A. Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2023 CPH Book Prize, Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University
Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t
Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award in Business, Finance, and Management, Association of American Publishers
Education & Psychology
Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century
2023 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association
History (United States)
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History
2023 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
2023 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
2023 John Winthrop Award in Early New England History, Colonial Society of Massachusetts
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
Shortlist, 2023 SSN Book Prize, Surveillance Studies Network
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration
Finalist, 2023 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Honorable Mention, 2023 Merle Curti in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State
2023 H. Wayne Morgan Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
2023 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
2023 PROSE Award in North American and U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
2023 Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
2023 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Honorable Mention, 2023 Merle Curti Award in Social History, Organization of American Historians
Shortlist, 2023 Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
History (World)
Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity (Harvard East Asian Monographs 451)
Longlist, 2023 ICAS Book Prize in the Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Abortion in Early Modern Italy
2023 EAHMH Book Award, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health
One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard East Asian Monographs 439)
Longlist, 2023 ICAS Book Prize in the Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
2023 PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
The Suicide of Miss Xi: Democracy and Disenchantment in the Chinese Republic
Shortlist, 2023 ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance
2023 World History Connected Book Prize, World History Association
Shortlist, 2023 Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Law & Political Science
Literature & Literary Criticism
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919–1943
Longlist, 2023 ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Philosophy
The Varieties of Experience: William James after the Linguistic Turn
2023–2024 JWMS Book Prize, John William Miller Society at Williams College
Religion
Jacob’s Younger Brother: Christian–Jewish Relations after Vatican II
First Place, 2023 CMA Book Award for Ecumenism or Interfaith Relations, Catholic Media Association
Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award in Theology and Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics
Shortlist, 2023 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
Co-Winner, 2023 AIPS Book Prize, American Institute of Pakistan Studies
Shortlist, 2023 BASAS Book Prize, British Association for South Asian Studies
Science & Medicine
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
The Guests of Ants: How Myrmecophiles Interact with Their Hosts
Finalist, 2023 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers
When Children Feel Pain: From Everyday Aches to Chronic Conditions
2023 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award for Books, National Association of Science Writers
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Shortlist, 2023 Hughes Prize, British Society for the History of Science
2022
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Business & Economics
The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
Finalist, 2022 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis
Finalist, 2022 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
Classics & the Ancient World
Education & Psychology
The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life
2022 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
Right Where We Belong: How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education
Longlist, 2022 Christopher G. Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing, Christopher G. Moore Foundation
The Intellectual Lives of Children
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in Psychology and Applied Social Work, Association of American Publishers
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
2022 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association
2022 ASALH Book Prize, Association for the Study of African American Life and History
2022 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Finalist, 2022 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
Finalist, 2022 City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, Writers’ Guild of Alberta
Finalist, 2022 Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction, Writers’ Guild of Alberta
History (United States)
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
2022 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, Columbia University
2022 Order of the Coif Book Award, National Order of the Coif
2022 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians
2022 PROSE Award in North American History, Association of American Publishers
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America
Runner-Up, 2022 JAR Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
2022 PROSE Award in Music and the Performing Arts, Association of American Publishers
2022 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Honorable Mention, 2022 Emily Toth Award in Women’s Studies, Popular Culture Association
Finalist, 2022 Richard Wall Award, Theatre Library Association
Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism
Honoree, 2022 Best Book in History Award, The Society of Midland Authors
Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt
Honoree, 2022 Best Book in History Award, The Society of Midland Authors
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
2022 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
2022 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
2022 C. L. R. James Award, Working-Class Studies Association
History (World)
Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 126)
Abortion in Early Modern Italy
2022 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Highly Commended, 2022 SRS Book Prize, Society for Renaissance Studies
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa
2022 Best Book Award, Canadian Association of Hispanists
2022 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association
Shortlist, 2022 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Honorable Mention, 2022 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
2022 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union
Honorable Mention, 2022 CAS/Taylor & Francis Book Prize, Canadian Association of Slavists
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention, 2022 OTSA Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean
2022 Frank Moore Cross Award, American Society of Overseas Research
2022 Best Subsequent Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance
Co-Winner, 2022 TSA-CUP Book Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press
An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
2022 Oskar Halecki Award in Polish History, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
2022 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France
Honorable Mention, 2022 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, UCLA Department of History
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
Longlist, 2022 Gaja Capital Business Book Prize, Gaja Capital
Longlist, 2022 Karwaan Book Prize, Karwaan: The Heritage Exploration Initiative
Law & Political Science
On the Edge: Life along the Russia–China Border
Shortlist, 2022 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, Pushkin House
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change
Shortlist, 2022 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, Pushkin House
A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice
Finalist, 2022 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, Association of American Publishers
Literature & Literary Criticism
The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 122)
2022 Prix Stanislas Julien (Stanislas Julien Prize), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Philosophy
Religion
Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front
Second Place, 2022 CMA Book Award for History, Catholic Media Association
God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America
2022 Best Book Award for History & Biography, Christianity Today
The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
Honorable Mention, 2022 CMA Book Award for History, Catholic Media Association
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics
First Place, 2022 CMA Book Award for History, Catholic Media Association
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
2022 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Shortlist, 2022 Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize, Bloomsbury Pakistan
Science & Medicine
Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future
2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
2022 PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine, Association of American Publishers
Social Science
2021
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Autobiograpy & Biography
To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
2021 National Jewish Book Award for Biography in Memory of Sara Berenson Stone, Jewish Book Council
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay–NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Biography and Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Business & Economics
The Great American Housing Bubble: What Went Wrong and How We Can Protect Ourselves in the Future
Gold Medal in Real Estate, 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards, Jenkins Group, Inc.
Education & Psychology
The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Psychology and Applied Social Work, Association of American Publishers
A Theory of System Justification
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Psychology and Applied Social Work, Association of American Publishers
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
2021 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association
Fine & Performing Arts
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
2021 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association
2021 Frank Jewett Mather Award, College Art Association of America
Co-Winner, 2021 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association of America
To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Music and the Performing Arts, Association of American Publishers
History (United States)
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
2021 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, The Langum Foundation
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
2021 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870
2022 James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical Association
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
2021 NSDAR Excellence in American History Book Award, Daughters of the American Revolution
2021 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, Columbia University
2021 Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
The Brethren: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Finalist, 2021 JAR Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
Finalist, 2021 JAR Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
2021 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center for the Constitution
History (World)
Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
Gold Medal in World History, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards
The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India
Shortlist, 2021 Cundill History Prize, Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, Cleveland Foundation
2021 Elsa Goveia Book Prize, Association of Caribbean Historians
2021 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
2021 James A. Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations, Organization of American Historians
2021 P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in North American History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlist, 2021 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Abortion in Early Modern Italy
Honorable Mention, 2021 SSEMWG Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
2021 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association
Silver Medal in World History, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
2021 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
The Terrorist Album: Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police
Finalist, 2021 ASA Best Book Prize, African Studies Association
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
Finalist, 2021 Cundill History Prize, Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and Meisho Zue in Late Tokugawa Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs 437)
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
2021 Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Shortlist, 2021 Cundill History Prize, Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
Honorable Mention, 2021 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America
The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland
2021 Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City
2021 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, German Studies Association
Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
Shortlist, 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, The British Academy
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in World History, Association of American Publishers
Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 114)
Time’s Monster: How History Makes History
Bronze Medal in World History, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
2021 Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize, History of Science Society
2021 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America
The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
2021 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
Finalist, 2021 California Book Award for Nonfiction, Commonwealth Club of California
Law & Political Science
India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
Co-Winner, 2021 Order of the Coif Book Award, National Order of the Coif
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, Association of American Publishers
Statelessness: A Modern History
Co-Winner, 2021 Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History Association
Literature & Literary Criticism
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Shortlist, 2021 Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
Co-Winner, 2021 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Shortlist, 2021 Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
Shortlist, 2021 Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation
Philosophy
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
2021 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools
Religion
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics
2021 Giuseppe Alberigo Junior Scholar Award, European Academy of Religion
Science & Medicine
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the Mind
Silver Medal in Science, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Science under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America
2021 John Dewey Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
2021 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Army Ants: Nature’s Ultimate Social Hunters
Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award in Biological and Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos
2021 PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant
2021 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
2021 PROSE Award in Biological Science, Association of American Publishers
Social Science
2020
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Autobiograpy & Biography
Business & Economics
The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West
2020 PROSE Award in Business, Management, and Finance, Association of American Publishers
Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat
2020 Hagley Prize, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference
Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory
Silver Medal in Business Ethics, 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards, Jenkins Group, Inc.
Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Remedies to Recessions
Co-Winner, Silver Medal in Economics, 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards, Jenkins Group, Inc.
Education & Psychology
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
2020 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
2020 Grawemeyer Award in Education, University of Louisville
2020 Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
2020 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American Publishers
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
2020 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Fine & Performing Arts
History (United States)
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Finalist, 2020 JAR Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History
2020 Américo Paredes Book Award, Center for Mexican-American Studies at South Texas College
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
Longlist, 2020 Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction, Massachusetts Center for the Book
The Cigarette: A Political History
2020 PROSE Award in North American/U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
2020 Best Book Jacket or Cover Award, Association of University Presses
2020 Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Co-Winner, 2020 Order of the Coif Book Award, National Order of the Coif
The Girls Next Door: Bringing the Home Front to the Front Lines
2020 Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award, U.S. Military History Group
History (World)
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
2020 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History, American Historical Association
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Finalist, 2020 Cundill History Prize, Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
2020 Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
Finalist, 2020 Julia Ward Howe Award for Nonfiction, Boston Authors Club
Shortlist, 2020 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
2020 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, American Catholic Historical Association
The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, Modern Language Association
African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
2020 John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
Shortlist, 2020 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy
2020 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association
Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon
2020 Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History, Department of History, UCLA Department of History
A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy
2020 Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for the History of the Jewish Diaspora, American Historical Association
The August Trials: The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland
Co-Winner, 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
2020 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
2020 Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History, American Historical Association
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
2020 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 114)
2020 Prix Stanislas Julien (Stanislas Julien Prize), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
2020 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, Society for Italian Historical Studies
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
Shortlist, 2020 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Honorable Mention, 2020 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Finalist, 2020 Vine Award in History, Koffler Centre of the Arts
Shortlist, 2020 Pinsky Givon Family Prize for Non-fiction, Western Canada Jewish Book Awards
Agents of Disorder: Inside China’s Cultural Revolution
2020 Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award, Social Science History Association
Law & Political Science
Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan
2020 John Phillip Reid Book Award, American Society for Legal History
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
2020 Julia Ward Howe Award for Nonfiction, Boston Authors Club
Literature & Literary Criticism
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
2020 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association
Philosophy
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
Co-Winner, 2020 Istvan Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
Religion
Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America
Honorable Mention, 2020 Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association
Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions
2020 ISSR Book Prize, International Society for Science and Religion
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
2020 RNA Award for Religion Reporting Excellence (Nonfiction Book), Religion News Association
Science & Medicine
Neptune’s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea
Honourable Mention, 2020 Keith Matthews Best Book Award, Canadian Nautical Research Society
Altered Inheritance: CRISPR and the Ethics of Human Genome Editing
2020 PROSE Award in Clinical Medicine, Association of American Publishers
The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
2020 PROSE Award in Computing and Information Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
Gold Medal in Science, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Social Science
Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media
2020 James Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament
2020 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
2020 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
2019
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Autobiograpy & Biography
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
2019 Hughes Prize, British Society for the History of Science
Business & Economics
History (United States)
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
2019 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
2019 BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies
2019 Stuart L. Bernath Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
2019 W. Turrentine Jackson Award, Western History Association
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America
Honorable Mention, 2019 JAR Book of the Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition
Finalist, 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History
Finalist, 2019 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts, American Bar Association
The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era
Finalist, 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
2019 Lewis Mumford Prize, Society for American City and Regional Planning History
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
2019 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
2019 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
2019 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Denver Public Library
2019 Ray Allen Billington Prize, Organization of American Historians
2019 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
2019 Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
2019 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
Finalist, 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
2019 TCU Texas Book Award, Friends of the Texas Christian University Library and TCU Press
2019 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
2019 Américo Paredes Book Award, Center for Mexican-American Studies at South Texas College
2019 Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
2019 David Montgomery Award, Organization of American Historians
Finalist, 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
2019 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management
2019 Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
2019 BCWH Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2019 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, The Langum Foundation
Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain
2019 Frank Watson Book Prize, Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph
History (World)
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Honorable Mention, 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
2019 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena
2019 Giuseppe Alberigo Senior Scholar Award, European Academy of Religion
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
2019 Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2019 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Shortlist, 2019 Pushkin House Russian Book Prize, Pushkin House
Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America
2019 Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History, American Historical Association
The Sons of Remus: Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
2019 CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa
Honorable Mention, 2019 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Shortlist, 2019 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian History Association
Law & Political Science
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
2019 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center for the Constitution
Literature & Literary Criticism
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty
2019 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Asia Curriculum Materials, Association for Asian Studies
Beginning at the End: Decadence, Modernism, and Postcolonial Poetry
2019 MSA First Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA First Book Prize, Modern Language Association
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
Shortlist, 2019 Christian Gauss Award, The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Philosophy
Psychology & Education
The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
2019 Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny
2019 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association
Religion
The People’s Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement
2019 Albert C. Outler Prize, American Society for Church History
Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy
2019 Economy and Society International Award, Fondazione Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice
2019 Aldersgate Prize, John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University
Social Science
Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World
Shortlist, 2019 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay–NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation
Longlist, 2019 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, PEN America
On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News
2019 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
2018
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Autobiography & Biography
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
2018–2019 Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2017–2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Shortlist, 2018 William M. B. Berger Prize for British Art History, The British Art Journal
Business & Economics
City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance
2018 ACCFSL Writing Competition Award, American College of Consumer Financial Services Lawyers
History (United States)
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
2018 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War
2018 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
2018 Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History, Organization of American Historians
2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
2018 Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
2018 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Co-Winner, 2018 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Longlist, 2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Co-Winner, 2018 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
2018 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
2018 Georgia Author of the Year Award, History/Biography Category, Georgia Writers Association
In Their Own Best Interest: A History of the U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans
2018 William M. LeoGrande Prize, Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University
The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War
History (World)
Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
2018 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association
Shortlist, 2018 British–Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle East Studies
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Shortlist, 2018 Wolfson History Prize, The Wolfson Foundation
The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena
2018 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War
2018 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Prize, World War One Historical Association
The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad
Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa
2018 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
2018 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in History and Theology, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Finalist, 2018 Cundill History Prize, Office of the Dean in the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
Law & Political Science
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
2018 PROSE Award, Government & Politics category, Association of American Publishers
Literature & Literary Criticism
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination
2018 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism (Pop Music), The ASCAP Foundation
Longlist, 2018 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket
Civic Longing: The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship
2018 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, Council of Graduate Schools
Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History
Shortlist, 2018 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Philosophy
Psychology & Education
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Shortlist, 2018 BPS Book Awards, British Psychological Society
A Natural History of Human Morality
2018 Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association
Beyond Test Scores: A Better Way to Measure School Quality
Honorable Mention, 2018 PROSE Award, Education Practice category, Association of American Publishers
Religion
Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church
2018 Charles E. Smith Award, European History Section of the Southern Historical Association
City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement
2018 Choice Award, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute
The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America
2018 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America
2018 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History
Science & Medicine
Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World
Honorable Mention, Biological Science category, 2018 PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers
Social Science
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
2018 Millia Davenport Publication Award, Costume Society of America
Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures
2018 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Honorable Mention, 2018 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
2017
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Art & Art History
Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son: The Paintings and Travel Diaries of Huang Xiangjian (1609–1673)
Finalist, 2017 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
Autobiography & Biography
Business & Economics
Finding Time: The Economics of Work–Life Conflict
Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award, Economics category, Association of American Publishers
History (United States)
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
2017 Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Honorable Mention, 2017 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
2017 John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical Association
2017 Book Award, North Jersey Civil War Round Table
2017 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America
2017 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Elvis’s Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield
2017 Captain Richard Lukaszewicz Memorial Book Award, U.S. Military History Group
Inside the Lost Museum: Curating, Past and Present
Finalist, 2017 Marfield Prize (National Award for Arts Writing), The Arts Club of Washington
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Finalist, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2017 Sharon Harris Book Award, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
History (World)
A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia
Shortlist, 2017 Karachi Literature Festival Pepsi Prize for Non-Fiction, Pepsico Pakistan
A Storm of Songs: India and the Idea of the Bhakti Movement
2017 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
2017 ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints
Co-Winner, 2017 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, Foundation for Landscape Studies
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
2017 Ohio Academy of History Publication Award, Junior Faculty category, Ohio Academy of History
Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire
2017 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Shortlist, 2017 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice
2017 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History, Society for Italian Historical Studies
Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China
Shortlist, 2017 ICAS Book Prize in the Social Sciences, International Convention of Asia Scholars
Law & Political Science
Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture
2017 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
2017 Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Literature & Literary Criticism
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
2017 Ground-Breaking Subject Matter Accolade (Humanities), International Convention of Asia Scholars
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
Honorable Mention, 2017 PROSE Award, Literature category, Association of American Publishers
Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination
2017 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
2017 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
Shortlist, 2017 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism
Shortlist, 2017 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Psychology & Education
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood
Shortlist, 2017 Cognitive Development Society Book Award, Cognitive Development Society
A Natural History of Human Morality
2017 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Shortlist, 2017 Cognitive Development Society Book Award, Cognitive Development Society
Religion
Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 102)
2017 Prix Stanislas Julien (Stanislas Julien Prize), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Science & Medicine
Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story
Shortlist, 2017 Dingle Prize, British Society for the History of Science
Making Sense of Science: Separating Substance from Spin
Finalist, 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & Technology
Social Science & Popular Culture
Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari
2017 John Collier Jr. Award for Still Photography, Society for Visual Anthropology
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas
2017 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
2017 ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association
2016
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Business & Economics
What Works: Gender Equality by Design
2016 Business Book of the Year, 800-CEO-READ
Shortlist, 2016 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times
Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy [Sauver les médias: Capitalisme, financement participatif et démocratie]
History (United States)
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
2016 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
Finalist, 2016 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia
Scientists at War: The Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
Co-Winner, 2016 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
Honorable Mention, 2016 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
2016 Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award, Gulf South Historical Association
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
2016 George W. and Constance M. Hilton Book Award, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, Inc.
Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development
2016 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
Co-Winner, 2016 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery
Finalist, 2016 Jefferson Davis Award, American Civil War Museum
Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood
2016 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association
Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
Co-Winner, 2016 Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
History (World)
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire
Honorable Mention, 2016 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination
Co-Winner, 2016 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
2016 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association
The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
2016 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association
2016 David H. Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historical Studies
Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice
2016 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Finalist, 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Finalist, 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction, National Book Foundation
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950
Winner, 2016 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China
2016 Cecil B. Currey Book Award, Association of Global South Studies
Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Honorable Mention, 2016 SSEMW Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution
2016 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Law & Political Science
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
2016 Bruno Kriesky Prize for Best Political Book, Karl-Renner-Institut
Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control
2016 Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award, Social Science History Association
Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students’ First Amendment Rights
2016 AESA Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association
Literature & Literary Criticism
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
2015–2016 MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association
2016 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
2016 PROSE Award in Media & Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism
Honorable Mention, 2016 Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language Association
Philosophy
Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform
2016 NASSP Book Award, North American Society for Social Philosophy
Psychology & Education
Religion
Science & Medicine
Energy Revolution: The Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology
Honorable Mention, 2016 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers
Social Science
The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth
2016 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award (for Orlando Patterson), Cleveland Foundation
2015
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Art
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa
and
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 2: The Rise of Black Artists
Biography & Autobiography
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
Honorable Mention, 2015 PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
2015 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association
Business & Economics
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2015 R. R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers
2015 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
2015 PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers
2015 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award, Council on Foreign Relations
Classics & the Ancient World
Digital Loeb Classical Library [Online Resource]
2015 PROSE Award for Best Humanities eProduct, Association of American Publishers
History (United States)
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
2015 AAAS Book Award, History category, Association for Asian American Studies
Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
2015 James Bradford Best Biography Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
2015 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, Cleveland Foundation
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
2015 Lawrence W. Levine Award, Organization of American Historians
2015 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America
2015 Sidney M. Edelstein Prize, Society for the History of Technology
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
2015 Antoinette Foster Downing Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
2015 George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
2015 VSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
Honorable Mention, 2015 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
History (World)
Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus
Honorable Mention, 2015 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, German Studies Association
The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
2015 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association
2015 CESS Book Award, Central Eurasian Studies Society
2015 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology
The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon
2015 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Central European History Society
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
Shortlist, 2015 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Literature & Literary Criticism
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
2015 NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies
Emily Dickinson Archive [Online Resource]
2015 New England Publishing Collaboration Award, Bookbuilders of Boston
A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction
2015 Richard J. Finneran Award, Society of Textual Scholarship
Philosophy & Political Science
The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution
2015 William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History
Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History
2015 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Psychology & Education
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
2015 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Honorable Mention, 2015 PROSE Award, Education Theory category, Association of American Publishers
Religion
Science & Medicine
Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
2015 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, Canada Council for the Arts
2014
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Art
Biography & Autobiography
Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
2014 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
Business & Economics
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
2014 FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, Financial Times
Finalist, 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
History (United States)
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
2014 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland
2014 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation
2014 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
2014 Emily Toth Award, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
2014 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
Honorable Mention, 2014 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek
2014 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
2014 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
2014 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society for Civil War Historians
2014 Robert M. Utley Award, Western History Association
Honor Book, 2014 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Denver Public Library
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
2014 Hornblower Award for a First Book, New York Society Library
History (World)
Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
2014 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, American Historical Association
The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950
2014 President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association
Cultures of Charity: Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
2014 Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Historical Association
2014 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America
Chinese History: A New Manual, Third Edition
2014 Prix Stanislas Julien (Stanislas Julien Prize), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps
2014 Herbert Steiner Prize, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
Literature & Literary Criticism
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
2014 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association
2014 Award of Merit, Philosophical Society of Texas
2014 Renato Ramírez Scholarly Book Award, Texas Institute of Letters
Honorable Mention, 2014 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Philosophy & Political Science
Teenage Citizens: The Political Theories of the Young
2014 Social Policy Publication Award, Society for Research on Adolescence
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
2014 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
The Place of Prejudice: A Case for Reasoning within the World
2014 Leo Strauss Award, American Political Science Association
Psychology & Education
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
2014 NCSA Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association
Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History
2014 O.L. Davis, Jr., Outstanding Book Award, American Association for Teaching and Curriculum
Religion
Trent: What Happened at the Council
2014 John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII
2014 Msgr. Harry C. Koenig Prize for Catholic Biography, American Catholic Historical Association
Social Science
Science & Medicine
Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
2014 Science in Society General Book Award, Canadian Science Writers’ Association
2013
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Art
Biography & Autobiography
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
2013 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association
2013 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Utah History Book Award, Utah State Historical Society
Business & Economics
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
2013 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
2013 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians
Finalist, 2013 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
2013 William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize, American Society for Legal History
2013 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
2013 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
2013 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investors’ Democracy
2013 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU
2013 EAEPE-Myrdal Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
History (United States)
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
2013 Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
2013 Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association
2013 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
Honorable Mention, 2013 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
2013 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South
2013 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
2013 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Co-Winner, 2013 Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South
Co-Winner, 2013 Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association
History (World)
Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism
Honorable Mention, 2013 CSA Book Prize, Czechoslovak Studies Association
Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
2013 DAAD/GSA Book Prize, German Academic Exchange Service (DADD) and the German Studies Association
2013 International Human Rights Book Award, Johannes P. Fritz/International Press Institute
Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination
Commended Finalist, 2013 Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library
The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany
2013 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War
2013 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr., Book Prize, World War One Historical Association
A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture
2013 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
2013 J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association
The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis
2013 President’s Book Award, Social Science History Association
Language Arts & Disciplines
Dictionary of American Regional English (Volumes I–VI)
2013 Dartmouth Medal, Reference and User Services Association, American Library Association
Law
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Honorable Mention, 2013 James Willard Hurst Prize, Law and Society Association
Literature & Literary Criticism
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
2013 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
2013 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association
Finalist, 2013 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, Lambda Literary Foundation
Finalist, 2012 Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, The Publishing Triangle
Mathematics
A History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)
Honorable Mention, 2013 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Mathematics Category
Philosophy & Political Science
Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union
2012–2013 Best Book Prize, European Union Studies Association
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
2013 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association
2013 AESA Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association
2013 Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award, National Council for the Social Studies
Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future
Co-Winner, 2013 Istvan Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty
2013 EAS Best Book Prize, European Academy of Sociology
2013 Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award, Social Science History Association
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
2013 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, American Political Science Association
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India
2013 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, Non-Fiction Category, Mumbai LitFest/The Tata Group
Co-Winner, 2013 Crossword Book Award, Non-Fiction Category, Crossword Bookstores & Partners
Psychology & Education
Born Together—Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study
2013 William James Book Award, American Psychological Association (Division 1, General Psychology)
Religion
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
2013 ISI Henry & Anne Paolucci Book Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Science & Medicine
Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn
Finalist, 2013 S-USIH Book Award, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
2013 ASLE Scholarly Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature & Environment
Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired
2013 BMA Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science, British Medical Association
2012
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Biography & Autobiography
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero
2012 Choice Award, Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
2012 James Tait Black Prize (Biography Category), University of Edinburgh
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Honorable Mention, 2012 Bernard Schwartz Book Award, Asia Society
History (United States)
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, Cleveland Foundation
2012 Daniel M. & Marilyn W. Laney Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table
2012 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
2012 Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology
2012 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology
Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire
Co-Winner, 2012 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
History (World)
Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism
Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931–1941
2012 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
Finalist, 2012 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, Writers’ Trust of Canada
The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire
2012 Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, Association of Third World Studies
Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland
2012 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize, Central European History Society
Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
2012 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
Co-Winner, 2012 EAEPE-Myrdal Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
2012 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle
Commended Finalist, 2012 Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust Library
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
2012 Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association
2012 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, American Historical Association
Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945
2012 John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association
2012 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II
2012 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
Law
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Honorable Mention, 2012 Silver Gavel Awards, American Bar Association
Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
2012 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association
2012 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
Literature & Literary Criticism
Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
2012 PROSE Award, Literature Category, Association of American Publishers
Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
2012 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Philosophy & Political Science
Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
2012 Viviana Zelizer Award, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics
2012 AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research
Psychology & Education
Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others
2012 Cognitive Development Society Book Award, Cognitive Development Society
Religion
From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965
2012 John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
2012 Aldersgate Prize, John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University
Science & Medicine
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
Highly Commended, Psychiatry Category, 2012 BMA Medical Book Awards, British Medical Association
Curious Behavior: Yawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and Beyond
2012 PROSE Award, Biomedicine & Neuroscience Category, Association of American Publishers
Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
2012 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Society of Environmental Journalists
2011
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History (United States)
Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions
2011 Rembert Patrick Award, Florida Historical Society
Honorable Mention, 2011 Bolton-Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
Finalist, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History
2011 Avery O. Craven Award, Organization of American Historians
Co-Winner, 2011 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
Finalist, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for History
2011 Abel Wolman Award, American Public Works Association
Finalist, 2011 Julia Ward Howe Award for Nonfiction, Boston Authors Club
Honor Book, 2011 Historic New England Book Prize, Historic New England
Common Sense: A Political History
2011 SHEAR Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
Honorable Mention, 2011 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War
2011 Ray and Pat Browne Award, Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular and American Culture, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
2011 Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize, American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association
History (World)
Advertising Empire: Race and Visual Culture in Imperial Germany
Co-Winner, 2011 George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association
The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle against Poverty in Asia
2011 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
2011 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Gender Struggles: Wage-Earning Women and Male-Dominated Unions in Postwar Japan
Second Prize, 2011 European Association for Japanese Studies Book Prize
2011 Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize, Unpublished Work Category, Palau Foundation
Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia
Bronze Prize, 2011 Washington Institute Book Prize, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing
2011 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia University
Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette
Finalist, 2011 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
2011 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
The Russian Origins of the First World War
2011 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize, World War One Historical Association
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Finalist, 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Honorable Mention, 2011 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Law
American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own
Co-Winner, 2011 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, The Langum Charitable Trust
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Co-Winner, 2011 Constitutional Commentary Award, Constitution Project
Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire
Honorable Mention, John Philip Reid Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Inner Temple Book Prize, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple and Wildy & Sons Ltd.
Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney
2011 Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, Law and Legal Studies Category
Literature & Literary Criticism
Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture
Honorable Mention, 2011 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
2011 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, Truman Capote Estate and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa
Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
2011 John Whitney Hall Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Philosophy
Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy
Co-Winner, 2011 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize
Science & Medicine
Field Notes on Science & Nature
2011 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
Co-Winner, 2011 Distinguished Publication Award, Association for Women in Psychology
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
2012 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences, Association of American Publishers
2012 PROSE Award in Biological Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Social Science & Popular Culture
Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast
Second Runner-Up, 2011 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award, Folklore Society
To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Finalist, 2011 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Library of Virginia
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
2011 Vincent P. DeSantis Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
2010
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Architecture
Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
2010 Anne d’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence, Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia
Drama
Business & Economics
Pensions in the Health and Retirement Study
2010 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University
History (United States)
Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
Finalist, 2010 Spur Award, Best Western Nonfiction—Contemporary (1900–present) Category, Western Writers of America
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939
2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for a First Book of History, Government of Victoria, Australia
Roosevelt’s Purge: How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party
2010 Henry Adams Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government
Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching
2010 W.E.B. Du Bois Book Prize, North East Black Studies Association
Honorable Mention, 2010 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black–Brown Solidarity
2010 TIL Award for Best Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters
Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award, Intellectual Freedom Round Table of the American Library Association
Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications
2010 Best Journalism and Mass Communication History Book Award, History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
The Selma of the North: Civil Rights Insurgency in Milwaukee
2010 Book Award of Merit, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I
2010 Honor Book, Nonfiction Category, Black Caucus of the American Library Association
Eden on the Charles: The Making of Boston
Honorable Mention, 2010 Kenneth Jackson Award, Urban History Association
Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century
2009–2010 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award, Labriola National American Indian Data Center at Arizona State University
Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America
2010 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
2010 James Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk
2010 National Outdoor Book Award, History/Biography Category, National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation, Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education, and Idaho State University
We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
2010 BAAS Book Prize, British Association for American Studies
Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I
2010 Paul Birdsall Prize, American Historical Association
History (World)
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule
2010 Mossadegh Prize, Mossadegh Foundation
The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
Finalist, 2010 National Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Studies, Jewish Book Council
Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad
2010 Council for European Studies Book Award
Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness
2010 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology
2010 Historians of British Art Book Prize, Pre-1800 Category
Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria
2010 Karl von Vogelsang State Prize for History and Social Sciences, Karl von Vogelsang-Institut
Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Sami Rohr Jewish Literary Institute
Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin
2010 Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, Non-Fiction Category
Living Standards in Latin American History: Height, Welfare, and Development, 1750–2000
2010 Jaume Vicens Vives Prize, Spanish Economic History Association
Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950
2010 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China
Honorable Mention, 2010 Bernard Schwartz Book Award, Asia Society
Law
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836
Co-Winner, 2010 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association
2010 General History Prize, N.S.W. Premier’s History Awards, Government of New South Wales, Australia
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
2010 PROSE Award in Law & Legal Studies, Association of American Publishers
Police Interrogation and American Justice
2010 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
2010 Edwin H. Sutherland Outstanding Scholarship Award, Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Justice in Blue and Gray: A Legal History of the Civil War
2010 David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Legal History, The Langum Charitable Trust
2010 Social Policy Best Authored Book Award, Society for Research on Adolescents
The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality
2010 Notable Book, International Ethics Section of the International Studies Association
Literature & Literary Criticism
Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature
2010 C. Hugh Holman Award, Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Philosophy
Shortlist, 2010 C.B. MacPherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos
2010 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, American Philosophical Society
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
2010 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
2010 Honorable Mention, David Easton Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention, 2010 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla’s Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy
2010 Research Prize in Italian Studies, Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam
Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy
Shortlist, 2010 C.B. MacPherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
Religion
Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Research Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement
2010 Junior Researcher Award, Academia Sinica
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
2010 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association
2010 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus
2010 Silver Medal, Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) In Medieval China
2010 Prix Stanislas Julien (Stanislas Julien Prize), Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
2010 Toshihide Numata Book Prize, Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
Science & Medicine
The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System
Honorable Mention, Cosmology and Astronomy Category, 2010 PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers
Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and the New Business of Engineering Life
2010 PROSE Award in Engineering & Technology, Association of American Publishers
Living at Micro Scale: The Unexpected Physics of Being Small
2010 Georgia Author of the Year Award, Specialty Book Category, Georgia Writers Association
Primeval Kinship: How Pair-Bonding Gave Birth to Human Society
2010 W.W. Howells Book Prize, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
Social Science & Popular Culture
Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
2010 ICA Fellows Book Award, International Communication Association
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire
2010 Book Award, International Association for Relationship Research
2010 Outstanding Book Award, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender
Human Documents: Eight Photographers
Finalist, 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award, Arts Category, Independent Book Publishers Association
2010 Silver Medal, Photography Category, Independent Publisher Awards
2010 Winner, General Trade—Illustrated Category, New England Book Show
First Place, 2010 Publication Awards, Books Over $10, New England Museum Association
Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
Finalist, 2010 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music
Certificate of Merit, Best Research in General History of Recorded Sound Category, 2010 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Honorable Mention, 2010 Woody Guthrie Award, U.S. Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music
2010 Hagley Prize in Business History, Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference
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