Prizes & Awards

This page compiles information about awards, prizes, and other notable honors bestowed on Penn Press authors and publications, in descending chronological order. Communication concerning prizes and awards should be directed to uppprize@pobox.upenn.edu.

2020

Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Lynn Festa
2020 Kenshur Prize
Indiana University Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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

Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
Lynn Festa
Shortlisted for the 2020 Kenshur Prize
Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

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

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

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