Prizes & Awards
This page compiles information about awards, prizes, and other notable honors bestowed on Penn Press authors and publications, in descending chronological order.
2013
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
2012
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
2011
Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Talya Fishman
National Jewish Book 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
2010
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
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
2009
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
2008
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