2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Lori Kido Lopez, Asian American Media Activism: Fighting for Cultural Citizenship

First Prize, Arabic to English Category, for the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (Doha, Qatar)
Michael Cooperson, Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Volume One and Volume Two) by Ibn al-Jawzi

Winner of the 2016 Early American Literature Book Prize
Robert Gunn, Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

Winner of the 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize presented by the Modern Language Association
Uri McMillan, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
James A. Holstein, Richard S. Jones, and George E. Koonce, Jr., Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL

Winner of the 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award Presented by ASTR
Uri McMillan, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Winner of the 2016 Errol Hill Award Presented by ASTR
Uri McMillan, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Book of the Year Award
Terry Lindvall, God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert

Winner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award
Moustafa Bayoumi, This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror

2016 Best First Book Prize from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Adam Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

Finalist, 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature
Adam Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

2016 Outstanding Publication in the Sociology of Disability, American Sociological Association, Section on Disability and Society
Linda M. Blum, Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality

Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) Distinguished Book Award
Margaret M. McGuinniss, Called to Serve: A History of Nuns in America

American Sociological Association Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology
Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis

American Sociological Association Lantino/a Section Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism

American Sociological Association Section on Religion Distinguished Book Award Honorable Mention
Joseph O. Baker and Buster G. Smith, American Secularism: Cultural Contours of Nonreligious Belief Systems

American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award
Liam Downey, Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment

American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational Asia
Sharmila Rudrappa, Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

2016 Best Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Body and Embodiment
Heather Laine Talley, Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance

LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary
Hiram Perez, A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire

Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
Ju Yon Kim, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday

Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the National Council for Black Studies
Shannon King, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era

Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
Dolores Ines Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy

Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona M. Abo-Zena, Amy K. Marks, Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants

Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
Ben Kirshner, Youth Activism in an Era of Educational Inequality

2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies
Rachel Lee, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies

Honorable Mention, 2015 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award presented by the American Psychological Association
Robert Kraft, Violent Accounts: Understanding the Psychology of Perpetrators through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

First Prize, Arabic to English Category, for the Inaugural Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (Doha, Qatar)
Geert Jan van Gelder and Gregor Schoeler, The Epistle of Foregiveness (Volume One and Volume Two) by Abu l-‘Ala’ al-Ma’arri

Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church History
Lerone A. Martin, Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion

Finalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Sharmila Rudrappa, Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Shannon King, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association
Juana Rodriguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

2015 National Jewish Book Award presented by the Jewish Book Council
Ted Merwin, Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli

Honorable Mention, 2015 Book Award presented by the American Revolution Round Table of Richmond
Phillip Papas, Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee

2015 Julian Steward Award presented by the American Anthropological Association
Alexa S. Dietrich, The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

2015 Bonnie Ritter Book Award presented by the National Communication Association
Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture

Finalist, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
Adam D. Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

Certificate of Merit, 2015 Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections
Lerone A. Martin, Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion

Honorable Mention, 2015 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize presented by the Society for Medical Anthropology
Sameena Mulla, The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention

2015 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship presented by the Media Ecology Association
Michael Serazio, Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing

2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award presented by the American Society of Criminology
Simon I. Singer, America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

2015 Best Book Award presented by the Communal Studies Association
Adam Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

2015 Book Prize presented by the Southern Jewish Historical Society
Benjamin E. Zeller, Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion

2015 Asia and Asian America Section Best Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim, Caring Across Generations: The Linked Lives of Korean American Families

Honorable Mention, 2015 Best Latino Studies Book presented by Latin American Studies Association
Dolores Inés Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy

2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research
Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle, Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex

Honorable Mention, 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies
Eng-Beng Lim, Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

2015 Rachel Carson Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science
Gwen Ottinger, Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges

2015 Smith/Wynkoop Book Award presented by the Wesleyan Theological Society
Priscilla Pope-Levison, Building the Old Time Religion

Finalist, 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation
Juana Maria Rodriguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings

2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation
Vincent Woodard, Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

Honorable Mention, 2015 Book Award presented by The Fraunces Tavern Museum
Phillip Papas, Renegade Revolutionary: The Life of General Charles Lee

2015 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award presented by the Stonewall Books Awards of the American Library Association
Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle, Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims

Finalist, 2014 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature presented by the Jewish Book Council
Marni Davis, Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition

Finalist, 2014 C. Wright Mills Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Janet K. Shim, Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease

Finalist, 2014 C. Wright Mills Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
David Dante Troutt, The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America

2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title presented by the Association of College & Research Libraries section of the American Library Association
Priscilla Pope-Levison, Building the Old Time Religion

2014 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies presented by the Jewish Book Council
Adam D. Mendelsohn, The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

Honorable Mention, 2014 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language Association’s GLQ Caucus
Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America

Honorable Mention, 2014 Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History section presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
Jonathan S. Ray, After Expulsion: 1492 and the Making of Sephardic Jewry

2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
Josh Lambert, Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

Finalist, 2014 Division of Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award presented by the National Communications Association
Kelly E. Happe, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project

2014 Bonnie Ritter Book Award presented by the Feminist and Women’s Studies Division of the National Communications Association
Cara Wallis, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones

2014 Division of Women and Crime Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the American Society of Criminology
Jill A. McKorkel, Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment

2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award presented by the National Communication Association
Kelly E. Happe, The Material Gene

2014 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award presented by the Gerontological Society of America
Madonna Harrington Meyer, Grandmothers at Work

Third place, 2014 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the American Anthropological Association
Zareena Grewal, Islam is a Foreign Country

2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature
Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back

2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award, National Council of Black Studies
Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back

2014 Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological Association
Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow, The Slums of Aspen

2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association
Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut, Buzz

Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Victor M. Rios, Punished

2014 Catholic Book Award in History presented by the Catholic Press Association
Margaret McGuinness, Called to Serve

Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Silvia Dominguez, Getting Ahead

2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Edward Orozco Flores, God’s Gangs

2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction, presented by the Asian Pacific American Library Association 
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Citizens of Asian America

2014 Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Kimberly D. Richman, License to Wed

Honorable Mention, 2014 Distinguished Book Award, American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Religion Section
Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson, Blacks and Whites in Christian America

2014 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, A Race So Different

2014 AAUP Jacket & Cover Design Awards
Robert Ji-Song Ku et. al, Eating Asian America
Stephen Hong Sohn, Racial Asymmetries

2014 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Joyce Arditti, Parental Incarceration and the Family

Runner-Up, 2014 MLA Prize in United States Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies
Antonio López, Unbecoming Blackness

2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize, American Society of Church History
Carolyn Renee Dupont, Mississippi Praying

2013 William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature, Modern Language Association
Samantha Pinto, Difficult Diasporas

Finalist, 2013 Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Studies
Peter M. Coviello, Tomorrow’s Parties

Finalist, 2013 C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Jill A. McCorkel, Breaking Women

2013 National Jewish Book Award Winners
Anthologies and Collections: Hasia Diner and Gennady Estraikh, 1929
Women’s Studies: Melissa Klapper, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
Finalist, American Jewish Studies: Andrea Most, Theatrical Liberalism

2013 Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association
Michael Serazio, Your Ad Here

2013 Bullough Award, The Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Julie Greenberg, Intersexuality and the Law

2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Racial Indigestion

2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize, American Studies Association
Lisa Marie Cacho, Social Death

2013 Outstanding Book Award Winner from the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology
Ko-lin Chin and James O. Finckenauer, Selling Sex Overseas

2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award
Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Racial Indigestion

2013 James W. Carey Media Research Award
Cara Wallis, Technomobility in China

2013 International Research Society in Children’s Literature Book Award
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

2013 ASA Asia and Asian America Section Best Book Award
Rick Baldoz, The Third Asiatic Invasion

2013 Society for the History of Childhood and Youth Grace Abbott Best Book Award
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

2013 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, presented by the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association
Victor Rios, Punished

Honorable Mention, 2013 Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association
Victor Rios, Punished

2013 ASA Race, Gender and Class Section’s Distinguished Book Award
Lorena Garcia, Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself

2013 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Book Publishing
Marjorie Heins, Priests of Our Democracy

2013 Notable Title in American Intellectual History from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History
Mark Pittenger, Class Unknown

2013 Outstanding Book Award from the International Communication Association
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Authentic™

Finalist, 2013 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies
Bernadette Barton, Pray the Gay Away

Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013

• Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler, The Tender Cut
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence 
• Leigh Goodmark, A Troubled Marriage
• Robert W. Jackson, Highway under the Hudson
• Jessie Klein, The Bully Society 

Honorable Mention, 2013  Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society
Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler, The Tender Cut

Finalist, 2013 Oregon Best Book Award
Nicholas Buccola, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass

2013  Asian American Studies Association’s Prize in Literary Studies
erin Khuê Ninh, Ingratitude

Honorable Mention, 2013  Asian American Studies Association’s prize in Literary Studies
Julia Lee, Interracial Encounters

2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Design
Simone Cinotto, Soft Soil, Black Grapes

2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Cover Design
Tony Michels, Jewish Radicals

2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Book Set Design
Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises, Vol. 1-3

2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies
Ramzi Fawaz, The New Mutants

2012 Jewish Book of the Year, presented by the National Jewish Book Council
Deborah Dash Moore, City of Promises, Vol. 1-3

2012 Outstanding Book in Cultural Studies Award, Association of Asian American Studies
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Puro Arte

2012 Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel Studies
Yagil Levy, Israel’s Death Hierarchy

2012 Best Reference Book presented by Library Journal
John Crowley, William J. Smyth, and Mike Murphy, Atlas of the Great Irish Famine

2012-2013 Asian/Pacific American Librarian’s Association Book Award
Rick Baldoz, The Third Asiatic Invasion

2012 C. Calvin Smith Award presented by the Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.
Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson, Blacks and Whites in Christian America

Honorable Mention, 2012 Best Book Prize from the Association of Internet Researchers
Thomas Streeter, The Net Effect

2012 American Bar Association Gavel Award Honorable Mention for Books
Jonathan Hafetz, Habeas Corpus after 9/11

Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler, Tender Cut

2012 Scribes Book Silver Medal Award presented by the American Society of Legal Writers
Jonathan Hafetz, Habeas Corpus after 9/11

2012 Honorable Mention Award, Sociology of Religion Section, presented by the American Sociological Association
Pyong Gap Min, Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America

Runner-Up, 2012 Dixon Ryan Manuscript Award presented by the New York Historical Association
Howard Rock, City of Promises: Volume I, Haven of Liberty

2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association
Victor Rios, Punished

Finalist, 2012 C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Study of Social Problems
Victor Rios, Punished

2012 Distinguished Career Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Mary Romero, The Maid’s Daughter

2012 Outstanding Book Award  from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

2012 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

Runner-Up, 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

Honorable Mention, 2012 Distinguished Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

Honorable Mention, 2012 Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies
Leslie Bow, Partly Colored

2012 Simon and Gagnon Lifetime Acheivement Award presented by the American Sociological Association
Judith Stacey, Unhitched

2012 Americo Paredes Book Award for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College
Mary Romero, The Maid’s Daughter

2012 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language Association
Darieck Scott, Extravagant Abjection

2012 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Susan L. Miller, After the Crime

 

Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award for books published in 2011
Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence

Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles from 2011

• Susan L. Miller, After the Crime
• Thomas Streeter, The Net Effect
• Jessica M. Vasquez, Mexican Americans Across Generations

2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu
Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, Racism and God-Talk

Honorable Mention, 2011 Robert E. Park Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association, Community and Urban Section
Robert Garot, Who You Claim

Honorable Mention, 2011 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book presented by the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section
Pyong Gap Min, Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America

Honorable Mention, 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book presented by the American Sociological Association, Culture Section
Shaul Kelner, Tours That Bind

2011 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
Scott Herring, Another Country

2011 St. Paul, Biglerville Prize from the Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic
Friederike Baer, The Trial of Frederick Eberle

Runner-Up, 2011 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Lorien Foote, The Gentlemen and the Roughs

2010 Best Reference: Print and Electronic Resources in the category of History, Library Journal
Guy Miron, Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghettos during the Holocaust

2010 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission
Jacqueline M. Moore, Cow Boys and Cattle Men

Association for Jewish Studies’ 2010 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Social Sciences, Anthropology and Folklore
Shaul Kelner, Tours that Bind

2010 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Study of Sport (NASSS)
Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs, Body Panic

Honorable Mention, 2010 Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
Alexandra Natapoff, Snitching

2010 Book Prize, New England Historical Association
George Billias, American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World

2010 Best Book in Latino Studies, Latin American Studies Association
Arlene Davila, Latino Spin

2010 Distinguished Book Award, American Psychological Association (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues)
M.V. Lee Badgett, When Gay People Get Married

2010 ASA Race, Gender and Class Section’s Distinguished Book Award
Jody Miller, Getting Played

2010 ASA-Sociology of Sexualities Section Distinguished Book Award

• Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country
• Lionel Cantu, Sexuality of Migration

2010 Alabama Historical Association Clinton Jackson Coley Award
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Bloody Lowndes

2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
Kimberly D. Richman, Courting Change

2010 Popular Culture Association Susan Koppelman Award: Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies
Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay, editors, The Fat Studies Reader

2010 American Sociological Association Sex & Gender Distinguished Book Award
Jeanne Flavin, Our Bodies, Our Crimes

Finalist, 2010 LGBT Anthology Award, Lamba Literary Awards
Gilbert Herdt, editor, Moral Panics, Sex Panics

2009 National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Studies
Hasia Diner, We Remember with Reverence and Love

2009 Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment, Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America
Pop Matters Best Books of 2009
David Freeland, Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville

2009 Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph
Mary L. Gray, Out in the Country

2009 ForeWord Magazine Book Awards

• Gold, Biography: Richard S. Newman, Freedom’s Prophet
• Silver, Religion: Phil Zuckerman, Society Without God

2009 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Jody Miller, Getting Played

2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award
Victoria E. Johnson, Heartland TV

2009 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography
Andrew Wiest, Vietnam’s Forgotten Army

Selected Title for 2009 AAUP Book, Journal and Jacket Award Show (Best Jackets)
David Drummond and Charles B. Hames, designers, After the Cure

2008 Lora Romero Book Award of the American Studies Association
Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Migrant Imaginaries

2008 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book of the Year
Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer, When Mothers Kill

2008 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year
Terry Lindvall, Sanctuary Cinema

2008 MLA First Book Award
Dana Luciano, Arranging Grief

2008 Association for Humanist Sociology Book of the Year Award
Reuben A. Buford May, Living through the Hoop

2008 ALA Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

• Frederic Ewen, edited by Jeffrey Wollock, with a foreword by Aaron Kramer, A Half-Century of Greatness
• Jon B. Gould, The Innocence Commission
• Amanda D. Lotz, The Television Will Be Revolutionized
• Raymond A. Schroth, The American Jesuits
• Helena Silverstein, Girls on the Stand

2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award
David A. Gerber, Authors of Their Lives

2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design
Donald Dewey, The Art of Ill Will

2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies
Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black

2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Pimps Up, Ho’s Down

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award
Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. Local Democracy Under Siege

2007 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA
Robert McRuer, Crip Theory

Finalist, 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Award for Arts Writing
William Jelani Cobb, To the Break of Dawn

2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology
Kyra Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play

Co-Winner, Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award
Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises

2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award
presented by the American Society of Criminology
Aaron Kupchik, Judging Juveniles

2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology
Aaron Kupchik, Judging Juveniles

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007

• God Hates Fags by Michael Cobb
• Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins
• Turkey, From Empire to Revolutionary Republic by Sina Askin
• Long Before Stonewall edited by Thomas A. Foster
• Sperm Counts by Lisa Jean Moore

2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine S. Kovacs Book Award
Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture

2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Trade Illustrated Book Design
Brandon Stosuy, editor, Up is Up, But So is Down

Finalist, 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award
Kyra Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play

2007 American Sociological Association Marxist Section Book Award
Corey Dolgon, The End of the Hamptons

2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies
Robert McRuer, Crip Theory

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006
Nancy Foner, In a New Land

Honorable Mention, 2006 MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
Michelle Habell-Pallan,  Loca Motion

Runner-Up, 2006 Julian Steward Award from the Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises

2006 American Book Award, presented by the Before Columbus Foundation
Thomas J. Ferraro, Feeling Italian

2006 National Jewish Book Award, Modern Jewish Thought
Shuly Rubin Schwartz, The Rabbi’s Wife

2006 Thomas J. Lyon Award in Western American Literary Studies presented by the Western Literature Association
John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America