Ceremonial Splendor: Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France
Joy Palacios
Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions
American Academy of Religion
Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English
Edited and translated by Jody Enders
Lois Roth Award for a translation of a literary work
Modern Language Association
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for for Comparative Literary Studies
Modern Language Association
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America
Olivier Burtin
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder at Europe's Fin de Siècle
Hillel J. Kieval
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Maria L. Quintana
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States
Erin Austin Dwyer
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Of Light and Struggle: Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay
Debbie Sharnak
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization: Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette Jr.
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador
Christopher Krupa
SLACA Book Prize
Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Counseling Women: Kinship Against Violence in India
Julia Kowalski
Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize
Association for Feminist Anthropology
Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Justine S. Murison
Book Award
Midwest Modern Language Association
Poisoned Wells: Accusations, Persecution, and Minorities in Medieval Europe, 1321-1422
Tzafrir Barzilay
Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture category
Association for Jewish Studies
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
Paul E. Lovejoy Prize Finalist
Journal of Global Slavery
A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador
Christopher Krupa
Book Prize
Society for Economic Anthropology
Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Maria L. Quintana
Empowering Latino Futures' International Latino Book Awards, Best History Book category
Empowering Latino Futures
Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Guestworker Programs
Maria L. Quintana
Empowering Latino Futures' International Latino Book Awards, Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book category
Empowering Latino Futures
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
George Freedley Memorial Award
Theatre Library Association
The Paradox of Debt: A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis
Richard Vague
PenCraft Book Awards, Non Fiction - Gov/Politics category
Authors Reading
Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective
Edited by Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache and Caroline Elkins
MSA Book Prize for an Edition, Anthology, or Essay Collection
Modernist Studies Association
Defensive Relativism: The Use of Cultural Relativism in International Legal Practice
Frederick Cowell
ESIL Monograph Prize
European Society of International Law
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize
The British Academy
Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James
Jane F. Thrailkill
Christian Gauss Award Shortlist
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award
Shakespeare's Globe
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award Shortlist
Shakespeare's Globe
A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America
Olivier Burtin
Richard E. Neustadt Book Prize
UK Political Studies Association, American Politics Group
Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women's Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
Suzanne Kahn
Honorable Mention for a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
Honorable Mention for a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660
Misha Ewen
Gladstone Prize Shortlist
Royal Historical Society
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Tessa Murphy
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize
French Colonial Historical Society
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Elizabeth N. Ellis
Summerlee Book Prize, Nonfiction Category
Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Elizabeth N. Ellis
Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race
Noémie Ndiaye
David Bevington Award
Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics
Chandan Deuskar
Best Book in Urban Affairs Award
Urban Affairs Association
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
Laura Wolf-Powers
Art & Architecture Book Award
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
SAA First Book Award
Shakespeare Association of America
This Is My Jail Local: Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Melanie Newport
Sharon Harris Book Award
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
Martha Cutter
Sharon Harris Book Award Honorable Mention
University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
William S. Kiser
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
Historical Society of New Mexico
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
Excellence in American History Book Award
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Paul Conrad
Ray Allen Billington Prize
Organization of American Historians
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Elizabeth N. Ellis
Frederick Jackson Turner Award Honorable Mention
Organization of American Historians
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment
Sandya Hewamanne
Cecil B. Currey Book Award
Association of Global South Studies
Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England
Urvashi Chakravarty
Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize
Renaissance Society of America
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
Bernard S. Cohn Prize Honorable Mention
Association for Asian Studies
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking
Cord J. Whitaker
John Nicholas Brown Prize
Medieval Academy of America
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy
Dyan Elliott
Haskins Medal
Medieval Academy of America
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Tessa Murphy
FEEGI Book Prize
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions
The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Holly A. Crocker
Jerome E. Singerman Prize
Medieval Academy of America
Biblical Women and Jewish Daily Life in the Middle Ages
Elisheva Baumgarten
National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies category
Jewish Book Council
Imitations of Infinity: Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Mimesis
Michael A. Motia
Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions
American Academy of Religion
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion's Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany
Tara Nummedal
Pfizer Award
History of Science Society
Article by Article: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a New Generation
Johannes Morsink
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Gordon Fraser
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton Thomas Fulton
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Tessa Murphy
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Patrons and Their Poor: Jewish Community and Public Charity in Early Modern Germany
Debra Kaplan
Rosl und Paul Arnsberg-Preis
Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft
Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia
Susan H. Brandt
First Book Award Honorable Mention
Library Company of Philadelphia
No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic
Keith Pluymers
John Ben Snow Prize
North American Conference on British Studies
Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
Federica Francesconi
Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
American Historical Association
Medieval Badges: Their Wearers and Their Worlds
Ann Marie Rasmussen
DAAD/GSA Book Prize Honorable Mention, Literature and Cultural Studies category
German Studies Association
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Tessa Murphy
James A. Rawley Prize
American Historical Association
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
John Ewers Award
Western History Association
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
W. Turrentine-Jackson Award
Western History Association
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Paul Conrad
Robert Utley Award
Western History Association
Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
President’s Prize
South Asian Studies Association of Australia
Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists Against Slavery
Peter Wirzbicki
Best Book Prize
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Artificial Life After Frankenstein
Eileen M. Hunt
David Easton Book Award
American Political Science Association, Foundations of Political Theory section
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
DeLong History Book Prize Shortlist
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Durée
Zachary Lesser
DeLong History Book Prize Shortlist
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Margaret Wade Labarge Prize
Canadian Society of Medievalists
Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America
Gordon Fraser
Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize
British Association for American Studies
Battle Green Vietnam: The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston
Elise Lemire
New England Society in the City of New York Book Awards Finalist, Historical Nonfiction category
New England Society in the City of New York
Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
N. Katherine Hayles Award Honorable Mention
Electronic Literature Organization
The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean
Tessa Murphy
Gilbert Chinard Prize Honorable Mention
Society for French Historical Studies
A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
Jane Berger
David Montgomery Award
Organization of American Historians
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
Paul Conrad
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
Historical Society of New Mexico
Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century South America
Nadia R. Altschul
La corónica Book Award
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize
Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy
Dyan Elliott
Otto Gründler Book Prize
Medieval Institute
Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II
Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
Cornell ILR School
The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages
Mary Dzon
Best First Book
Southeastern Medieval Association
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Harry M. Ward Book Prize
American Revolution Round Table of Richmond
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
Harry M. Ward Book Prize Honorable Mention
American Revolution Round Table of Richmond
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
Colonel Richard W. Ulbrich Memorial Book Award Honorable Mention
U.S. Military History Group
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalist
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Gettysburg College
Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa
Brenton Sullivan
E. Gene Smith Inner Asia Book Prize Honorable Mention
Association for Asian Studies
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
LA Times Book Prize History Category Finalist
LA Times
Heroines and Local Girls: The Transnational Emergence of Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Pamela Cheek
Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena, from the Renaissance to the Emancipation
Federica Francesconi
National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Writing Based on Archival Material category
Jewish Book Council
Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library
Andrew M. Stauffer
Marilyn Gaull Book Award
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
The Loss of the "Trades Increase": An Early Modern Maritime Catastrophe
Richmond Barbour
The Mountbatten Award for Best Book Shortlist
The Maritime Foundation
Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality
Annabel Herzog
Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the Philosophy and Jewish Thought category
Association for Jewish Studies
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley prize for the best book in southern history
Southern Historical Association
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize for Outstanding Original Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize Finalist
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History
American Historical Association
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Lora Romero First Book Prize
American Studies Association
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
Hannah Barker
2021 IHR Book Award
Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Barbara Christian Literary Prize Honorable Mention
Caribbean Studies Association
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Finalist for the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and the MacMillan Center at Yale University
The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism
Özlem Altan-Olcay and Evren Balta
Best Book by an International Scholar Award
American Sociological Association, Global and Transnational Sociology Section
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize Honorable Mention
French Colonial Historical Society
The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade
Benjamin Breen
William H. Welch Medal
American Association for the History of Medicine
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
Society of the Cincinnati Prize
American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati
Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern Border
Ashley Johnson Bavery
First Book Award
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Subscription Theater: Democracy and Drama in Britain and Ireland, 1880-1939
Matthew Franks
Theatre Book Prize Shortlist
The Society for Theatre Research
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon
The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies Honorable Mention
The Mediterranean Seminar
In Good Faith: Arabic Translation and Translators in Early Modern Spain
Claire M. Gilbert
The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies Honorable Mention
The Mediterranean Seminar
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
Hannah Barker
The Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies Honorable Mention
The Mediterranean Seminar
History and the Written Word: Documents, Literacy, and Language in the Age of the Angevins
Henry Bainton
Whitfield Book Prize Shortlist
The Royal Historical Society
I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
Alaina E. Roberts
Phillis Wheatley Book Award, Historical Era category
Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Lawrence W. Levine Award finalist
Organization of American Historians
Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Sarah S. Willen
Stirling Prize for Best Published Book in Psychological Anthropology
Society for Psychological Anthropology
Migrant Citizenship: Race, Rights, and Reform in the U.S. Farm Labor Camp Program
Verónica Martínez-Matsuda
David Montgomery Award
Organization of American Historians
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Honorable mention for the Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Organization of American Historians
Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique
Devaka Premawardhana
2021 Pnuema Book Award
Society for Pentecostal Studies
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History
The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Donald F. Johnson
Distinguished Book Award, US History category
Society for Military History
Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean
Vanessa Mongey
Gilbert Chinard Prize
Society for French Historical Studies
Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic
Joshua R. Greenberg
2021 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist
Business History Conference
Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
Jessica Marie Johnson
Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History Finalist
African American Intellectual History Society
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Brandon R. Byrd
Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History Finalist
African American Intellectual History Society
Rabbi Leo Baeck: Living a Religious Imperative in Troubled Times
Michael A. Meyer
Finalist for the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards in the Biography category
Jewish Book Council
Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole Jones
2020 JAR Book of the Year Award Finalist
Journal of the American Revolution
A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz
David I. Shyovitz
John Nicholas Brown Prize
The Medieval Academy of America
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Honorable mention for the John Boswell Prize
The Committee on LGBT History
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
2019 Prize for a First Book
Modern Language Association
The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language
Katie Chenoweth
2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Modern Language Association
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Lynn Festa
2019 James Russell Lowell Prize
Modern Language Association
Communists and Their Victims: The Quest for Justice in the Czech Republic
Roman David
Honorable mention for the CSA Book Prize
Czechoslovak Studies Association
Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books
Lindsay DiCuirci
2020 Early American Literature Book Prize
Early American Literature Journal
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics
Benjamin Talton
Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history
American Historical Association
Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books
Lindsay DiCuirci
2020 First Book Award
The Library Company of Philadelphia
God's Internationalists: World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism
David P. King
Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Kellie Carter Jackson
Finalist for the 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and the MacMillan Center at Yale University
Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce
Noah D. Guynn
2019 George Freedley Memorial Award Finalist
Theatre Library Association
The Disaffected: Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
2019 ARRTOP Book of the Year Award
American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
2020 First Book Award Finalist
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India
Laura Dudley Jenkins
Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award
American Political Science Association, Religion and Politics Section
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Lynn Festa
Kenshur Prize
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Kellie Carter Jackson
James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR)
Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Sarah S. Willen
Winner of the 2020 Edie Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Society for Humanistic Anthropology
That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500
Hannah Barker
Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for the best academic work on slavery published in 2019
Journal of Global Slavery
Engaging the Ottoman Empire: Vexed Mediations, 1690-1815
Daniel O'Quinn
Shortlisted for the 2020 Kenshur Prize
Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawaiʻi and the Early United States
Noelani Arista
Best 2019 First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N. Blain
Shortlisted for the Karen Offen-Ida Bloom Prize for Transnational Women’s and Gender History
International Federation for Research in Women's History
Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights
Barbara J. Keys
NASSH Anthologies Book Prize for 2020
North American Society for Sport History
Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce
Noah D. Guynn
Honorable Mention for the David Bevington Award
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change
Edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, and Robert Freestone
IPHS Prize for Best Planning History, Edited Work
International Planning History Society
Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel's Margins
Sarah S. Willen
Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies published in 2019
Association for Israel Studies
Roads to Health: Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy
G. Geltner
2019 AAIS Book Prize in Medieval Studies
American Association for Italian Studies
Latinos and the Liberal City: Politics and Protest in San Francisco
Eduardo Contreras
David Montgomery Award
Organization of American Historians
Speaking with the Dead in Early America
Erik R. Seeman
Lawrence W. Levine Award
Organization of American Historians
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
Brandon R. Byrd
Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize
Haiti-Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Market Rules: Bankers, Presidents, and the Origins of the Great Recession
Mark H. Rose
2020 Hagley Prize in Business History Finalist
Business History Conference
Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books
Lindsay DiCuirci
St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize
Bibliographical Society of America
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize
Bibliographical Society of America
Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship
Brenna Wynn Greer
Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award For Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture
Popular Culture Association
The Invention of Rivers: Alexander's Eye and Ganga's Descent
Dilip da Cunha
John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
The Foundation for Landscape Studies
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
Book Award
Midwest Modern Language Association
Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845
Tim Fulford
Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award
Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
Richard Firth Green
2020 Haskins Medal
Medieval Academy of America
The Art of Allusion: Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476
Sonja Drimmer
Highly Commended in the pre-1600 category of the Historians of British Art Book Prize
Historians of British Art
Vodún: Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power
Timothy R. Landry
Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things
Virginia Burrus
Borsch-Rast Book Prize
The Graduate Theological Union
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages
Maya Maskarinec
2019 Book Prize
The Hagiography Society
William Livingston's American Revolution
James J. Gigantino II
2019 Authors Award
New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher M. Parsons
Prix Lionel-Groulx
Institut d'Histoire de l'Amérique Française
A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher M. Parsons
Honorable Mention for the Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize
French Colonial Historical Society
Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam
Lev E. Weitz
Shortlisted for the 2019 Book Prize
Middle East Medievalists
Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century
LaDale C. Winling
2018 Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North America)
Urban History Association
Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and Mobility in Rural Mozambique
Devaka Premawardhana
Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions
Journal of Africana Religions
Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations: Afghanistan and Lebanon
Chiara Ruffa
Third Place for the 2019 Giueseppe Caforio Award for Best Book
European Research Group on Military and Society
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Kellie Carter Jackson
MAAH Stone Book Award Finalist
Museum of African American History
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon
2019 Best First Book Prize
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales
Robin Chapman Stacey
Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History for Publications in 2018
Jesus College, University of Oxford
The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights
Barbara J. Keys
Anthology Award for 2017-2019
Australian Society for Sport History
Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
Kevin Dawson
Harriet Tubman Prize finalist
Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West
Christian Tagsold
Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize for the best book in Vernacular Architecture
Vernacular Architecture Forum
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne
2019 Elsa Goveia Book Prize
Association of Caribbean Historians
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N. Blain
Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America
Douglas A. Guerra
Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture
Popular Culture Association
Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America
Michele Currie Navakas
Rembert Patrick Award
Winner of the 2019 Rembert Patrick Award, granted by the Florida Historical Society
Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America
Michele Currie Navakas
Stetson Kennedy Award
Winner of the 2019 Stetson Kennedy Award, granted by the Florida Historical Society
Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
George E. Thomas
Victorian Society in America Book Award
Awarded a 2019 Book Award by the Victorian Society in America
Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Keisha N. Blain
Darlene Clark Hine Award
Winner of the 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians
The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication, and Commerce in Early Modern Spain and the Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon
Sharon Harris Book Award
Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut
Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy
Kellie Robertson
Beatrice White Prize
English Association and the Year’s Work in English Studies
The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Cary Cordova
Finalist
Susanne M Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University
Indecent Exposure: Gender, Politics, and Obscene Comedy in Middle English Literature
Nicole Nolan Sidhu
Best First Book Award
Southeastern Medieval Association
Antitheatricality and the Body Public
Lisa A. Freeman
Finalist
George Freedley Memorial Award
Theatre Library Association
Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance
Catherine M. Mooney
Book Prize
Hagiography Society
Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest
William S. Kiser
Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
Historical Society of New Mexico
The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Cary Cordova
Lawrence W. Levine Award
Organization of American Historians
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne
Publication Award
Ohio Academy of History
Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization
Manfred Nowak
Best Book Award
Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Jeffrey Masten
Elizabeth Dietz Award
Rice University and SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter
Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize
The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
Seeing the Myth in Human Rights
Jenna Reinbold
Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (Analytical-Descriptive Studies)
American Academy of Religion
Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
Sasha Turner
Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India
Sital Kalantry
Best Academic Press Title
Eric Hoffer Book Award
Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities
Mira Beth Wasserman
Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize
American Academy for Jewish Research
Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion: Gordion Special Studies 8
John M. Marston
Wiseman Book Award
Archaeological Institute of America
Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
Randy M. Browne
Publication Award
Ohio Academy of History
After Europe
Ivan Krastev
Finalist
European Book Prize
European Union
Compassion's Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
Katherine Ibbett
Book Prize
Society for Renaissance Studies
First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformation
Christopher Baylor
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Truth Without Reconciliation: A Human Rights History of Ghana
Abena Ampofoa Asare
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Rituals of Ethnicity: Thangmi Identities Between Nepal and India
Sara Shneiderman
James Fisher Award for Best First Book
Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Timothy Stewart-Winter
John Boswell Prize
American Historical Association
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes
Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award
Association of Black Women Historians
Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
Katherine J. Parkin
Emily Toth Award
Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Pious Irreverence:Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism
Dov Weiss
National Jewish Book Award for scholarship
Jewish Book Council
Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Mark R. Cohen
Finalist
National Jewish Book Award for scholarship
Jewish Book Council
American Gandhi: A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
Leilah Danielson
Scott Bills Memorial Prize
Peace History Society
Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy
Daniel Geary
Peggy O'Brien Book Prize
Irish Association for American Studies
Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America
Patricia Crain
Early American Literature Book Prize
University of Notre Dame
Romantic Marks and Measures: Wordsworth's Poetry in Fields of Print
Julia S. Carlson
First Book Prize
British Association for Romantic Studies
Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
Richard Firth Green
Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies
The Mythopoeic Society
Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs
Alice Wilson
Honorable mention
Middle East Section Book Prize
American Anthropological Association
Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York
Stacie Taranto
Arline Custer Memorial Award
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
After Europe
Ivan Krastev
Elemer Hantos Prize
Central Europe Foundation
The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida
Laurel Clark Shire
Mary Kelley Prize
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830
Timothy Campbell
Shortlisted
Kenshur Prize
Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Animals and Other People: Literary Forms and Living Beings in the Long Eighteenth Century
Heather Keenleyside
Shortlisted
Kenshur Prize
Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Human Rights and War Through Civilian Eyes
Thomas W. Smith
Finalist
Best Book in Human Rights
International Studies Association
Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy
Onur Bakiner
Best Book in Human Rights
American Political Science Association
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Jennifer L. Palmer
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize
French Colonial Historical Society
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes
Barbara Christian Prize
Caribbean Studies Association
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive
Marisa J. Fuentes
Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
The Hundred Years War, Volume 4: Cursed Kings
Jonathan Sumption
Otto Gründler Prize
Medieval Institute
Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace
Katherine Turk
Mary Jurich Nickliss Prize
Organization for American Historians
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Mark R. Wilson
The Hagley Prize in Business History
Business History Conference
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Mark R. Wilson
Ralph Gomory Prize
Business History Conference
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Timothy Stewart-Winter
Finalist
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Foundation
The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida
Laurel Clark Shire
Rembert Patrick Award
Florida Historical Society
Nature Speaks: Medieval Literature and Aristotelian Philosophy
Kellie Robertson
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
Nicole Hemmer
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Nowhere in the Middle Ages
Karma Lochrie
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Zachary Lesser
Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award
Studies in English Literature
Rice University
The People's Network: The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Robert MacDougall
Albert B. Corey Prize
American Historical Association
Seasons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
Kathleen Donegan
Honorable Mention
Early American Literature Book Prize
University of Notre Dame
Visions of Sovereignty: Nationalism and Accommodation in Multinational Democracies
Jaime Lluch
Honorable mention
Charles Taylor Book Award
American Political Science Association
Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
Jean R. Soderlund
Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Pennsylvania Historical Association
Displacing Democracy: Economic Segregation in America
Amy Widestrom
Clarence Stone Scholar Award
Urban and Local Politics Section
American Political Science Association
From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Vicki Howard
Hagley Prize in Business History
Business History Conference
Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Allen Dieterich-Ward
Arline Custer Memorial Award
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design
Luke Morgan
Highly Commended
Best Book Award
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand
Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Timothy Stewart-Winter
John Boswell Prize
Committee on LGBT History
Becoming Jane Jacobs
Peter L. Laurence
Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award
Urban Communication Foundation
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Valerie Traub
Best Book of 2015
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic
Brian Phillips Murphy
Cowinner
James Broussard Best First Book Prize
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World
Benjamin Schmidt
Finalist
Kenshur Prize
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Mind Is a Collection: Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought
Sean Silver
Finalist
Kenshur Prize
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America
Jen Manion
Mary Kelly Prize
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066-1300
Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
Best Book Prize
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
The Social Lives of Poems in Nineteenth-Century America
Michael C. Cohen
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Valerie Traub
Finalist
LGBT Studies Section
Lambda Literary Awards
Stuyvesant Bound: An Essay on Loss Across Time
Donna Merwick
Hendricks Award
New Netherland Institute
Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis
Robert Cozzolino
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Associational State: American Governance in the Twentieth Century
Brian Balogh
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865
James J. Gigantino II
Authors Award
New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865
James J. Gigantino II
Robert P. McCormick Prize
New Jersey Historical Commission
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston
Cornelia H. Dayton and Sharon V. Salinger
Merle Curti Award
Organization of American Historians
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States
Ruben Flores
Annual Book Award
Society for U.S. Intellectual History
The Queen's Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater
Claire Sponsler
David Bevington Award
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Becoming Bureaucrats: Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service
Zachary Oberfield
Best Book Award
Public and Nonprofit Division
Academy of Management
Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
Ryan Szpiech
International Book Award
La corónica
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
Karen Raber
Shortlist
Best Book in Scholarly Ecocriticism
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism
Dylan M. Burns
Finalist
Best First Book in the History of Religions
American Academy of Religion
Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
Elisheva Baumgarten
Finalist
Barbara Dobkin Award
Jewish Book Council
Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Carmen Nocentelli
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Modern Language Association
Empires of Love: Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Carmen Nocentelli
Roland H. Bainton Book Prize in Literature
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816
Pawel Maciejko
Jordan Schnitzer Book Award
Association for Jewish Studies
Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Sarah Pinto
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
Society for Medical Anthropology
American Anthropological Association
A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Simon P. Newman
Book Prize
British Association for American Studies
Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates
Karen M'Closkey
J. B. Jackson Book Prize
Foundation for Landscape Studies
Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991
Lidwien Kapteijns
Finalist
Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize
African Studies Association
Ethnography After Antiquity: Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Anthony Kaldellis
Shortlist
Runciman Award
Anglo-Hellenic League
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency
Saladin M. Ambar
Robert C. and Virginia L. Williamson Prize in Social Sciences
Lehigh University
Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City
Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores
Robert E. Park Award
American Sociological Association
Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
Karen Ferguson
Honorable mention
Robert K. Martin Prize
Canadian Association for American Studies
True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
Frances E. Dolan
John Ben Snow Prize
North American Conference on British Studies
Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics
Elizabeth Shermer
Finalist
First Book Prize
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Looting and Rape in Wartime: Law and Change in International Relations
Tuba Inal
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America
Axel R. Schäfer
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Robert L. Fleegler
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence: The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria
Fabian Klose
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture
Mirjam Zadoff. Translated by William Templer
Salo Baron Prize
American Academy for Jewish Research
In the Shadow of the Gallows: Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Robert K. Martin Prize
Canadian Association for American Studies
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Kimberly Theidon
Honorable Mention
Eileen Basker Prize
Society for Medical Anthropology
Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Kimberly Theidon
Honorable Mention
Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America
Washington Office on Latin America-Duke University Libraries
Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States
Edited by William T. Armaline, Davita Silfen Glasberg, and Bandana Purkayastha
Hirabayashi Book Award
American Sociological Association
Before Fiction: The Ancien Régime of the Novel
Nicholas D. Paige
Louis Gottschalk Prize
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Lost History of "Piers Plowman": The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work
Lawrence Warner
Honorable Mention
Richard J. Finneran Award
Society for Textual Scholarship
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science
Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell
Literary Award
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
John Van Engen
Haskins Medal
The Medieval Academy of America
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
Michael Witgen
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective
Mansel G. Blackford
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change
Jörg Rüpke
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
C. Stephen Jaeger
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency
Michael Witgen
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art
Charles Colbert
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Early African American Print Culture
Edited by Lara Langer Cohen and Jordan Alexander Stein
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
A Town In-Between Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior
Judith Ridner
Philip S. Klein Book Prize
Pennsylvania Historical Association
New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty
Evan Haefeli
Hendricks Award
New Netherland Institute
Visions of Sovereignty: Nationalism and Accommodation in Multinational Democracies
Jaime Lluch
IV Vilaseca i Marcet International Book Prize
Institut d'Estudis Autonòmics
Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona
Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
Michael Witgen
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon
Marie A. Kelleher
Premio del Rey Book Prize
American Historical Association
Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages
Ruth Mazo Karras
Joan Kelly Book Prize
American Historical Association
The Birth of Orientalism
Urs App
Book Prize
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
China Hand: An Autobiography
John Paton Davies, Jr.
Douglas Dillon Award
American Academy of Diplomacy
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial
Richard Price
Senior Book Prize
American Ethnological Society
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial
Richard Price
Best Book in Human Rights
American Political Science Association
The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755-1816
Pawel Maciejko
Salo W. Baron Prize
American Academy for Jewish Research
On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea
Sealing Cheng
Best Book in the Sociology of Sexualities
American Sociological Association
Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland
Roman David
Award for Concept Analysis
International Political Science Association
Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel
Oded Haklai
Shapiro Best Book Award
Association for Israel Studies
A Life Spent Changing Places
Lawrence Halprin. Foreword by Laurie Olin
J. B. Jackson Book Prize
Foundation for Landscape Studies
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India
Eugenia W. Herbert
J. B. Jackson Book Prize
Foundation for Landscape Studies
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
Christopher MacEvitt
John Nicholas Brown Prize
Medieval Academy of America
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Talya Fishman
Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award
Jewish Book Council
Miami: Mistress of the Americas
Jan Nijman
J. B. Jackson Prize
Association of American Geographers
Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines
Anja Jetschke
Cecil B. Currey Book Award
Association of Third World Studies
A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America
David Jaffee
Fred Kniffen Book Prize
Pioneer America Society
Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France
Susan Hiner
Millia Davenport Publication Award
Costume Society of America
Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
Thomas F. X. Noble
Otto Gruendler Prize
Medieval Institute of America
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond
Caroline Walker Bynum
Haskins Medal
Medieval Institute of America
European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean: Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism
Karla Mallette
Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
Texas A&M University
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Johan Elverskog
Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion
American Academy of Religion
Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America
Heather Murray
Lawrence W. Levine Award
Organization of American Historians
From Dictatorship to Democracy: An Insider's Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam
Hamid al-Bayati
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Paradox of Relevance: Ethnography and Citizenship in the United States
Carol J. Greenhouse
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
Sarah McNamer
Book-of-the-Year Award
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Medici Gardens: From Making to Design
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Elizabeth Blair MacDougall Award
Society of Architectural Historians
Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America
Katherine Carté Engel
Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Elizabethtown College
The Inarticulate Renaissance: Language Trouble in an Age of Eloquence
Carla Mazzio
Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses
Jonathan Sumption
History Prize
The Wolfson Foundation
Paying the Toll: Local Power, Regional Politics, and the Golden Gate Bridge
Louise Nelson Dyble
Abel Wolman Award
Public Works Historical Society
Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning
Daniel Hobbins
Publication Award
Ohio Academy of History
The Origins of Jewish Secularization in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Shmuel Feiner
Prize for Jewish History
Zalman Shazar Center
Skyscraper: The Politics and Power of Building New York City in the Twentieth Century
Benjamin Flowers
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Hundred Years War, Volume 3: Divided Houses
Jonathan Sumption
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
James Kearney
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
Marisa Chappell
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Lloyd Pratt
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Johan Elverskog
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Virgil's Eclogues
Translated by Len Krisak. Introduction by Gregson Davis
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Felicity Nussbaum
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Essential Dürer
Edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
James Kearney
Book-of-the-Year Award
Conference on Christianity and Literature
Wonderful Blood: Theology and Practice in Late Medieval Northern Germany and Beyond
Caroline Walker Bynum
Otto Gründler Prize
Medieval Institute of America
Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
D. Fairchild Ruggles
J. B. Jackson Book Prize
Foundation for Landscape Studies
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Sahar Amer
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for comparative literary studies
Modern Language Association
Printing the Middle Ages
Siân Echard
Margaret Wade Labarge Prize
Canadian Society of Medievalists
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
John Van Engen
John Gilmary Shea Prize
American Catholic Historical Association
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
John Van Engen
Philip Schaff Prize
American Society of Church History
Authorship and Publicity Before Print: Jean Gerson and the Transformation of Late Medieval Learning
Daniel Hobbins
Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History
American Philosophical Society
The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
John Fea
Author Award for scholarly nonfiction
New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
Untimely Matter in the Time of Shakespeare
Jonathan Gil Harris
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
When Broadway Was the Runway: Theater, Fashion, and American Culture
Marlis Schweitzer
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Creating Human Rights: How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
Lisa S. Alfredson
Outstanding Academic Title
Choice magazine
Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual Authority
Sara S. Poor
John Nicholas Brown Prize
Medieval Academy of America
The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
Fiona J. Griffiths
Margaret Wade Labarge Prize
Canadian Society of Medievalist
Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy, 1598-1642
Jean E. Howard
Barnard Hewitt Award
American Society for Theatre Research
Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers
Edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk
"Best of the Best from the University Presses"
American Library Association
Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State
Elizabeth F. Drexler
Cecil B. Currey Book Award
Third World Studies Association
Smack: Heroin and the American City
Eric C. Schneider
Kenneth Jackson Best Book Award
Urban History Association