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  • 2018

    Winner, 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociology Association
    Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

  • 2017

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    Winner, Everett Lee Hunt Award presented by the Eastern Communication Association
    Jessica M. Fishman, Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

    Winner, W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
    Keesha M. Middlemass, Convicted and Condemned: The Politics and Policies of Prisoner Reentry

    Winner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthropology of Religion section of the American Anthropological Association
    Elizabeth Pérez, Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions

    Winner, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
    Shari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

    Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies
    Laura B. Rosenzweig,  Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles

    2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize
    Ramzi Fawaz, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award presented by the American Studies Association
    Ramzi Fawaz, The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    Honorable Mention, William Sanders Scarborough Prize presented by the MLA
    Robert Reid-Pharr, Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique

    Choice Top Book of 2017
    Erik Love, Islamophobia and Racism in America

    2017 Margaret Mead Award presented by the American Anthropological Association
    Sameena Mulla, The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention

    Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
    Jeremy Glick, The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution

    2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics
    Maya Barzilai, Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters

    2017 American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice Best Book Award
    Judah Schept, Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion

    Honorable Mention in Legacy Nonfiction presented by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards
    Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases

    ICA Fellows’ Book Award presented by the International Communication Association
    Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

    Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award presented by the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association
    Patrisia Macías-Rojas, From Deportation to Prison: The Politics of Immigration Enforcement in Post-Civil Rights America

    Best Non-Fiction Book Award presented by the Pacific Book Review
    Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases

    Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section presented by the American Sociological Association
    Janet Jacobs, The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors

    Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions
    Judith Weisenfeld, New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration

    Sex and Gender Section Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association
    Georgiann Davis, Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis

    Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by the American Academy of Jewish Research
    Maya Barzilai, Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters

    Thomas Byers Memorial Outstanding Publication Award from the University of Akron Law Alumni Association
    Tracy A. Thomas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law 

    Outstanding Book Award for the Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity presented by the American Sociological Association
    Jennifer A. Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

    Ida B. Wells and Cheikh Anta Diop Award Recipient for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership in Africana Studies
    Gerald Horne, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

    Honorable Mention, 2017 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award presented by the Eastern Sociological Society
    Jennifer Reich, Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines

    2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award Recipient presented by Religion Communicators Council
    Betty Livingston Adams, Black Women’s Christian Activism: Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb

    Michigan Notable Book Selection presented by The Detroit Free Press
    Lora Lempert, Women Doing Life: Gender, Punishment and the Struggle for Identity

    Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award
    Walter Earl Fluker, The Ground has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

  • 2016

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    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

  • 2015

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    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

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    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

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    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

    2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies
    Eng-Beng Lim, Brown Boys and Rice Queens
  • 2012

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    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

     

  • 2011

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • 2006

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    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

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