Awards

Honorable Mention, Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Modern Language Association, 2023
Amy E. Wright, Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now

Marcia Herndon Prize, Society of Ethnomusicology, 2024
Christina Baker, Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico’s War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide

Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 2024
Koichi Hagimoto, Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho: Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina

Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies Association—Mexico Section, 2024
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón, Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence

Gourmand World Cookbook Award—Best Women of the World Book, Spain, 2023
Rebecca Ingram, Women’s Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain

Honorable Mention, Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies, Latin American Studies Association—Visual Culture Studies Section, 2023
Paula Serafini, Creating Worlds Otherwise: Art, Collective Action, and (Post)Extractivism

Nancy Staub Award, Union Internationale de la Marionnette (UNIMA-USA), 2023
Esther Fernández, To Embody the Marvelous: The Making of Illusions in Early Modern Spain

Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize, 2022
Angélica Gorodischer (author), Amalia Gladhart (translator), Jaguars’ Tomb

Mary Ellen LoPresti Publication Award, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), 2022
Marin R. Sullivan (editor), The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments, and Stonework

Tennessee History Book Award, Tennessee Library Association and Tennessee Historical Commission, 2022
Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres, Mastodons to Mississippians: Adventures in Nashville’s Deep Past

ACRL’s Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2021
Michael Wilson Becerril, Resisting Extractivism: Peruvian Gold, Everyday Violence, and the Politics of Attention

Honorable Mention, Association for Feminist Anthropology’s Rosaldo Book Prize, 2021
Lydia Z. Dixon, Delivering Health: Midwifery and Development in Mexico

Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist, Southern Environmental Law Center, 2021
Michael Ray Taylor, Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves

PROSE Awards Subject Category Finalist (Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology), Association of American Publishers, 2021
Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award, Latin American Studies Association—Nineteenth-Century Section, 2021
Ashley Elizabeth Kerr, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina (1860-1910)

Nautilus Book Awards, Silver Award, Animals & Nature Category Winner, 2020
Stephen Daubert, Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History

Regional (Non-Fiction) Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2020
Keel Hunt, Crossing the Aisle: How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the Twenty-First Century and Could Save America

Historical (Non-Fiction) Finalist, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2020
Peter Lippman, Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award Shortlist Finalist, Urban Communication Foundation, 2020
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr, What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn

PROSE Awards Subject Category Winner (Literature), Association of American Publishers, 2020
Juan E. De Castro, Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño

Honorable Mention, Outstanding First Book in Memory Studies, SAGE Memory Studies Journal & Memory Studies Association, 2019
Yifat Gutman, Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine

Blues Hall of Fame Inductee: “A Classic of Blues Literature,” The Blues Foundation, 2019
John W. Work III, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams (authors), Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov (editors), Lost Delta Found: Rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County Study, 1941-1942

Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist, 2018
Mindy Fried, Caring for Red: A Daughter’s Memoir

Best Nineteenth-Century Book Award, Latin American Studies Association—Nineteenth-Century Section, 2018
Ronald Briggs, The Moral Electricity of Print: Transatlantic Education and the Lima Women’s Circuit, 1876–1910

Latin American Jewish Studies Association Book Award, 2017
Stephen Silverstein, The Merchant of Havana: The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive

ACRL’s Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017
Kathleen Cash, Sex, Shame, and Violence: A Revolutionary Practice of Public Storytelling in Poor Communities

Foreign Affairs Best of Books, 2016
Daniel Chávez, Nicaragua and the Politics of Utopia: Development and Culture in the Modern State

Named One of “Six Books for Insight on a Trump Presidency” by the Washington Post, 2016
Selection of the History Book Club, 2014

D. J. Mulloy, The World of the John Birch Society: Conspiracy, Conservatism, and the Cold War

ACRL’s Choice Editors’ Pick, 2015
Charlotte Cosner, The Golden Leaf: How Tobacco Shaped Cuba and the Atlantic World

New York Times Best Seller
Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards Special Recognition, 2015
Lillian Smith Book Award, 2015
Association of American University Presses Books Committee Outstanding Title, 2015

Andrew Maraniss, Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South

Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2014
Erin Koch, Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia

Foreword Reviews Top Ten University Press Pick, 2014
Bertha Alvarez Manninen, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Shared Values in the Abortion Debate

Lambda Literary Award Finalist, 2005
Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies, Center for LGBTQ Studies, 2004

Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man

James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association, 2002
Maria Antonia Garcés, Cervantes in Algiers: A Captive’s Tale