Prize-Winning Publications
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Saint Joseph's University Press
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Society of Biblical Literature
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University of South Carolina Press
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- Writers and Their Notebooks by Diana M. Raab, editor
Honorable Mention, Anthologies, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Greek Revival by Patricia Moore-Pastides
Honorable Mention, Cooking, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language by Debra Hawhee
Diamond Anniversary Award, National Communication Association, 2010
Southern Illinois University Press
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Southern Methodist University Press
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Stanford University Press
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- Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt by Jessica Winegar
Arnold Rubin Outstanding Book Award, Arts Council of the African Studies Association, 2011
- Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis by Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G. Carruthers
Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award, ASA Section on Economic Sociology, 2010
Best Scholarly Book Award, ASA Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, 2010
Distinguished Book Award, ASA Sociology of Law Section, 2010
- Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II by Holly Case
Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute, 2010
Barbara Jelavich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2010
Book Prize, Hungarian Studies Association, 2010
George Louis Beer Prize, American Historical Association, 2010
- A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro by Brodwyn Fischer
Roberto Reis Prize, Brazilian Studies Association, 2010
SUNY Press
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- A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing by Mark J. Garrison
Critics Choice Award, American Educational Studies Organization
- China's America: The Chinese View the United States, 1900-2000 by Jing Li
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- Shrouds of White Earth by Gerald Vizenor
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2011
- River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers by Nina Shengold and Jennifer May
Silver Medalist, Regional Non-fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2011
- The Man Who Saved New York: Hugh Carey and the Great Fiscal Crisis of 1975 by Seymour P. Lachman and Robert Polner
Empire State History Book Award, New York State Archives Partnership Trust, 2011
Syracuse University Press
- A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich, translated by Roger Allen
Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize, Banipal Trust for Arab Literature, 2012
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Teachers College Press
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- Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg
Grawemeyer Award for Education, 2013 - The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future by Linda Darling-Hammond
Grawemeyer Award for Education, 2012 - Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Maisha T. Winn
Honorable Mention, PROSE Award for Education, 2011
Temple University Press
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- Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature by Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Carribean Studies Association, 2011
- Livestock/Deadstock: Working with Farm Animals from Birth to Slaughter by Rhoda M. Wilkie
Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Animals and Society Section, American Sociological Association, 2011
- Black Venus 2010: They Called Her 'Hottentot' by Deborah Willis, editor
Susan Koppelman Award, Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2011
- On the Margins of Citizenship: Intellectual Disability and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America by Allison C. Carey
Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, 2010
- Rave Culture: The Alteration and Decline of a Philadelphia Music Scene by Tammy L. Anderson
Charles Horten Cooley Award, 2010
University of Tennessee Press
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University of Texas Press
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- Oaxaca al Gusto by Diana Kennedy
Cookbook of the Year, James Beard Foundation, 2011
- Before Brown: Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice by Gary M. Lavergne
Carr P. Collins Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2011
Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2011
- Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith
Liz Carpenter Award, Texas State Historical Association, 2011
- Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981 by David Montejano
T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2011
- In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, Mexico by Eduardo de J. Douglas
Association for Latin American Art Book Award, 2011
Texas A&M University Press
- River of Contrasts: The Texas Colorado by Margie Crisp
Carr P. Collins Award for Non-Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2013 - Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941 by Kate Sayen Kirkland
Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2013
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TCU Press
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Texas Tech University Press
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- Embroiderers of Ninhue by Carmen Benavente
Honorable Mention, Crafts & Hobbies, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
University of Tokyo Press
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University of Toronto Press
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- Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of Market Culture in Eastern Canada by Béatrice Craig
Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2010
Clio Prize, Atlantic Region, Canadian Historical Association, 2010
- Municipalities and Multiculturalism: The Politics of Immigration in Toronto and Vancouver by Kristin R. Good
Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association, 2010
- Impersonations: Troubling the Person in Law and Culture by Sheryl Hamilton
Canadian Law and Society Association Book Prize, 2010
- Comrades and Critics: Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada by Candida Rifkind
Ann Saddlmyer Award, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, 2010
- Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver by Becki L. Ross
Clio Prize, British Columbia Region, Canadian Historical Association, 2010
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United Nations University Press
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United States Institute of Peace
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W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
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- Solving the Reemployment Puzzle: From Research to Policy by Stephen A. Wandner
Richard A. Lester Award, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section, 2010
University of Utah Press
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Utah State University Press
- Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times by Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe
Research Impact Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2013
Advancement of Knowledge Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2013 - Technologies of Wonder by Susan H. Delagrange
Outstanding Book Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2013
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Vanderbilt University Press
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University of Virginia Press
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- The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson, Digital Edition, by David G. Coleman, Kent B. Germany, Guian A. McKee, and Mark J. Selverstone, editors
PROSE Award for eProduct/Best in Humanities, 2011
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University of Washington Press
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- Beneath the Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest by David Hall
Winner, Design and Artistic Merit, National Outdoor Book Awards, 2012 - Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Shimada Prize, Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, 2011
- The Book of Men and Women: Poems by David Biespiel
Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry, Oregon Book Awards, 2011
- Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee by Hwasook Nam
James B. Palais Book Prize, Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 2011
- Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan by Brett Walker
George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History, 2011
Washington State University Press
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- Greenscapes: Olmsted's Pacific Northwest by Joan Hockaday
Outstanding Title, American Library Association, 2010
Wayne State University Press
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- In Her Hands: The Education of Jewish Women in Tsarist Russia by Eliyana R. Adler
Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2011
- As If I Were Prey by Michael Delp
Bronze, Fiction-Short Stories, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights by Steve Babson, Dave Riddle, and David Elsila
Freedom Fighter Award, Independent Book Publisher Awards, 2011
- Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke
Gold, Best Regional Fiction, Independent Book Publisher Awards, 2011
Next Generation Indie Book Award, Novella, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group, 2011
Silver, Historical Fiction, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- Picturing Hemingway's Michigan by Michael R. Federspiel
Gold, Best Regional Non-fiction, Independent Book Publisher Awards, 2011
Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Award, Coffee Table Book/Photography, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group, 2011
Wesleyan University Press
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- Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi
Best Book of 2011, Times Literary Supplement, 2011
- Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation by Christopher Sieving
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
- It's the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television by Christine Becker
Michael Nelson Prize, International Association for Media and History, 2011
- Versed by Rae Armantrout
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2010
National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, 2009
Finalist, Poetry, National Book Award, 2009
- Practical Water by Brenda Hillman
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Poetry, 2010
University of the West Indies Press
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West Virginia University Press
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- Old South, New South, or Down South? Florida and the Modern Civil Rights Movement by Irvin D.S. Winsboro
Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award, Florida Historical Society, 2010
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Just a Larger Family: Letters of Marie Williamson from the Canadian Home Front, 1940-1944 edited by Mary F. Williamson and Tom Sharp
Heritage Toronto Award of Excellence, 2012
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University of Wisconsin Press
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- The Big Bang Symphony: A Novel of Antarctica by Lucy Bledsoe
Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction, 2011
Finalist, Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord Book of the Year Award, 2011
- Across America by Bicycle by Alice Honeywell and Bobbi Montgomery
Gold, Travel Essays, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, 2010
- A Handbook of Scandinavian Names by Nancy L. Coleman and Olav Veka
Winner, Reference, Midwest Book Awards, 2011
- Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian by Aleko Konstantinov
John D. Bell Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association, 2010
- A Nation of Politicians by Padhraig Higgins
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference on Irish Studies, 2010
Woodrow Wilson Center Press
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Yale University Press
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- Venice from the Water: Architecture and Myth in an Early Modern City by Daniel Savoy
Art History & Criticism Award, PROSE Awards, 2012 - A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America by Leila Ahmed
Grawemeyer Award for Religion, 2013 - A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico by Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J. Lynch
Winner, Nature Guidebooks, National Outdoor Book Awards, 2012
- Radial Symmetry by Katherine Larson
Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2012
- Women, Work & Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality by Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth
Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association, 2011
