Awards

Recent Awards

Residues: Thinking Through Chemical Environments by Soraya Boudia, Angela N. H. Creager, Scott Frickel, Emmanuel Henry, Nathalie Jas, Carsten Reinhardt, and Jody A. Roberts, won the 2023 Merton Award from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association.

Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars by Charlie Jeffries won the Arthur Miller Institute First Book Award.

Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India by Madhavi Murty won the International Communication Association’s Outstanding Book Award for 2023.

Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in Brazil, by Antonio José Bacelar da Silva, won the Best Book in Social Sciences Award from the LASA Brazil section.

OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture, edited by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross, won the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology.

Changes in Care: Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa by Cati Coe won the Toyin Falola Africa Book Award from the Association of Global South Studies.

Barbara Smith’s Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology was given a Lee Lynch Classic Book Award from the Golden Crown Literary Society.

Jewish Childhood in Krakow: A Microhistory of the Holocaust by Joanne Sliwa was a 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title in the Central and Eastern Europe category.

Performing Math: A History of Communication and Anxiety in the American Mathematics Classroom by Andrew Fiss won the 2022 Best Book Award in Technical or Scientific Communication from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal by Siri Sun won the Eileen Basket Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology.

The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family by Sophie Bjork-James won the 2022 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize from the Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association.

High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women’s Mobilization in Violent Contexts by Julia Margaret Zulver won the 2022 International Studies Association, Peace Studies Section’s Best Female Scholar Book Award.

Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945, edited by Kendra Boyd, Marisa J. Fuentes, and Deborah Gray White, won the 2022 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Award for edited non-fiction.

Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History by Eike Exner won the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly / Academic Work and The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse by Andrew J. Kunka was shortlisted for the same award.

Intimate Inequalities: Millennials’ Romantic Relationships in Contemporary Times by Christen Delassandro won the National Indie Excellence Award in the “Current Events” category and was an Honorable Mention from the Foreword INDIES Awards in the Political and Social Sciences category.

Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination by Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan is a co-winner for the 2022 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association.

Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption by Deborah Cohan won the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books in the Caregiving category.

Memories Before the State: Postwar Peru and the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion by Joseph Feldman was an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Radio’s Second Century: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives by John Allen Hendricks won the 2022 Broadcast Education Association Book Award.

Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court of Sierra Leonea Bucknell University Press book written by Shanee Stepakoff, won the 2022 Independent Book Publisher’s Association Benjamin Franklin Award, Poetry category.

Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians by Courtney Szto won the 2022 NASSS (North American Society for the Sociology of Sport) Outstanding Book Award.

Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics by Paul Williams won Best Book at the Grand Comics Database Comics History Awards.

Marriage, Gender, and Refugee Migration by Natasha Carver won the BSA (British Sociological Association) Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for 2022.

Welcome to Wherever We Are by Deborah Cohan won the ESS (Eastern Sociological Society) Public Sociology Award.

The Audacity of a Kiss by Leslie Cohen was shortlisted for the 2022 Lesbian Memoir/ Biography Lammy Award.

Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean by Aliyah Khan has received an honorable mention for the 2022 MLA Prize for a First Book.

Diversity Regimes: Why Talk Is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities by James M. Thomas has been selected as a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism by Anke Birkenmaier has been selected as a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life by Ellyn Lem is a finalist for the 2021 American Book Fest Best Book Awards.

Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood by Agata Frymus is winner of the 2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph from Monash University Malaysia.

Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte by Yveline Alexis is winner of the 2021 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize.

Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun by Clifford Mason is winner of the 2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association.

Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic by Ana-Maurine Lara has received an honorable mention for the 2021 Isis Duarte Book Prize from the Latin American Studies Association Haiti-Dominican Republic Section.

U.S. Power in International Higher Education edited by Jenny J. Lee is a finalist for the 2021 ASHE/CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education.

The Printed Reader: Gender, Quixotism, and Textual Bodies in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Amelia Dale (Bucknell University Press) has been shortlisted for the 2021 BARS First Book Prize (British Association for Romantic Studies).

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse has been shortlisted for the 2021 British Fantasy Awards in Best Non-Fiction from the British Fantasy Society.

Regulating Difference: Religious Diversity and Nationhood in the Secular West by Marian Burchardt is winner of the 2021 ISSR Best Book Award (International Society for the Sociology of Religion).

Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Feminist Self-Help Movement in America by Hannah Dudley-Shotwell is winner of the 2021 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH).

The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America by David S. Koffman has received an honorable mention for the 2021 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society.

Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 edited by Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood (Bucknell University Press) has won the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association.

Comics Studies: A Guidebook edited by Charles Hatfield and Bart Beaty has been nominated for the 2021 Eisner Awards in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category.

Beyond Repair?: Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm by Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Likes has won the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide.

The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and Belonging in America by David S. Koffman has won the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore from the Association for Jewish Studies.

Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life by Ellyn Lem has won the Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Adventures in Shondaland: Identity Politics and the Power of Representation edited by Rachel Alicia Griffin and Michaela D.E. Meyer has won the Innovator Award for Edited Collection from the Central States Communication Association (CSCA).

Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence by Amy Sodaro has received an honorable mention for the 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies Association.

Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, the Future on India’s Northern Threshold by Sara Smith is winner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the American Association of Geographers.

Pyrrhic Progress: The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production by Claas Kirchhelle is winner of the 2021 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize from the British Agricultural History Society, winner of the 2020 Turriano Prize from the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, was short-listed and highly commended for the Antibiotic Guardian Award from Public Health England, and was long-listed for the Michel Déon Prize from the Royal Irish Academy.

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse has won the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).

Blaming Teachers: Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History by Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz has been awarded a 2021 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award.

Forget Burial: HIV Kinship, Disability, and Queer/Trans Narratives of Care by Marty Fink is a finalist for the LGBTQ Nonfiction Award from Lambda Literary.

Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics by Paul Williams has received an honorable mention for the 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize.

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre edited by Alison Peirse is a finalist for the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2021 Best Edited Collection Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), and is runner-up for Book of the Year in the 19th Annual Rondo Halton Classic Horror Awards.

Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge by Aya H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy has been longlisted for the Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change by Brad Schreiber has received an honorable mention in the Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition (book cover designed by Spencer Fuller, Faceout Studio).

Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption by Christian L. Bolden has won the Spring 2020-21 Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans.

Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing by Kylie Smith has been awarded first place in the 2020 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in History and Public Policy.

The Novel Stage: Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen by Marcie Frank (Bucknell University Press) has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur by Eyal Mayroz has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood: Asymmetries of Innocence and the Cultural Politics of Child Development by Hannah Dyer has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies edited by Joshua I. Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Queer Objects edited by Chris Brickell and Judith Collard has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina by Eva van Roekel has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes by Ronald C. Kramer has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Diversifying STEM: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Race and Gender edited by Ebony O. McGee and William H. Robinson has been named a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Taste of Control: Food and the Filipino Colonial Mentality under American Rule by René Alexander D. Orquiza Jr. has won the 2021 Gourmand Awards, Asian Section and Culinary History Section.

Phenomenal Justice: Violence and Morality in Argentina by Eva van Roekel has been short-listed for the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America from Duke University Libraries.

Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption by Christian L. Bolden has won the 2020 Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology – Convict Criminology Group.

Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers by Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham is winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA).

Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art by Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra has been shortlisted for the 2020 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize is winner of the 2019 Art Journal prize from the College Art Association.

Beyond the City and the Bridge: East Asian Immigration in a New Jersey Suburb by Noriko Matsumoto has won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance (NJSAA) Author Award for Scholarly Non-fiction and the Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Association, and has received an honorable mention for the 2019 American Sociological Association Book Award – Asia/Asian American Section.

Talking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing by Kylie Smith is winner of the 2020 Lavinia L. Dock Award from the American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN).

Avenues of Translation: The City in Iberian and Latin American Writing edited by Regina Galasso and Evelyn Scaramella (Bucknell University Press) has won the 2020 SAMLA Studies Book Award – Edited Collection.

There Has to Be a Better Way: Lessons from Former Urban Teachers by Lynnette Mawhinney and Carol R. Rinke has won the 2020 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Book Award.

33 Simple Strategies for Faculty: A Week-by-Week Resource for Teaching First-Year and First-Generation Students by Lisa M. Nunn has won the 2020 Scholarly Contributions to Teaching and Learning Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology.

Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action by Kari Marie Norgaard has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

EC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest by Qiana Whitted has won the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work from Comic-Con.

For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze by Elizabeth Cherry is winner of the 2020 Award for Distinguished Book from the Animals & Society Section of the American Sociological Association.

Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific by Christopher B. Patterson is winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies from the American Studies Association (ASA).

Beyond Repair?: Mayan Women’s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm by Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes has received an honorable mention in the 2020 CALACS Book Prize from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

I Wonder U: How Price Went Beyond Race and Back by Adilifu Nama has been featured in the 2020 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.

Reluctant Interveners: America’s Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur by Eyal Mayroz has been featured in the 2020 Association of University of Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.

Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher by Judson G. Everitt is winner of the 2019-20 Distinguished Book Award from the Midwest Sociological Society.

Welcome to Wherever We Are: A Memoir of Family, Caregiving, and Redemption by Deborah J. Cohan has been designated as a Recommended Book in Domestic Violence by DomesticShelters.org.

Reading Homer’s Odyssey by Kostas Myrsiades (Bucknell University Press) has been named a finalist in the 2020 PROSE Awards, Classics Section.

Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth by Laura S. Abrams and Diane Terry is winner of the 2020 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award.

Watching Our Weights: The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the “Obesity Epidemic” by Melissa Zimdars is winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Food Writing Section, USA.

Obsessed: The Cultural Critic’s Life in the Kitchen by Elisabeth Bronfen is winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Translation Section, USA.

2019 Awards

Complicated Lives: Girls, Parents, Drugs, and Juvenile Justice by Vera Lopez has won the 2019 Intersectional Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women & Crime.

The Cat Men of Gotham: Tales of Feline Friendships in Old New York by Peggy Gavan is the winner of a 2019 Certificate of Excellence and MUSE Medallion from the Cat Writers Association.

Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change by Brad Schreiber received an honorable mention in the 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards, Performing Arts & Music Section.

The Ruins of Ani: A Journey to Armenia’s Medieval Capital and its Legacy by Krikor Balakian and translated by Peter Balakian and Aram Arkun is winner of the 2019 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research.

Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities by Javon Johnson is winner of the 2019 Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies from the National Communication Association.

A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History by Michael Hoberman has been named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Transgender Cinema by Rebecca Bell-Metereau has been named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Pan-African American Literature: Signifyin(g) Immigrants in the Twenty-First Century by Stephanie Li has been named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Transforming Contagion: Risky Contacts among Bodies, Disciplines, and Nations edited by Breanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank and Sarah Stage has been named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America by Shannon Withycombe has been named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Trapped in a Vice: The Consequences of Confinement for Young People by Alexandra Cox has won the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Critical Criminology and Social Justice (DCCSJ).

A Queerly Joyful Noise: Choral Musicking for Social Justice by Julia “Jules” Balen has received an honorable mention for the 2019 Herndon Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Section on Gender and Sexualities (SEM-GST).

The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11 by Matt Sienkiewicz is winner of the 2019 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award.

Schooling, Democracy, and the Quest for Wisdom: Partnerships and the Moral Dimensions of Teaching by Robert V. Bullough, Jr. and John R. Rosenberg has received a Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association and has won the 2019 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award.

Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day by Graham Russell Gao Hodges is winner of the 2019 Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Commission.

Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture by Karen E. H. Skinazi has received an honorable mention for the 2019 Robert K. Martin Prize from the Canadian Association of American Studies.

White Guys on Campus: Racism, White Immunity, and the Myth of “Post-Racial” Higher Education by Nolan L. Cabrera is winner of the 2019 ASHE Outstanding Book Award is winner of the 2019 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award.

Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan by Amy Brainer has received the 2019 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Single-Authored Monograph from the Association for Queer Anthropology.

Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics by Lara Saguisag has won the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society and was nominated for the Eisner Award – Best Academic/Scholarly Work.

Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction among Koren Americans and Korean Chinese by Helene K. Lee is winner of the 2019 American Sociological Association Book Award – Asia/Asian-American Section.

Turning the Page: Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media by David R. Coon is first runner-up for the 2019 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies from the Popular Culture Association.

Cultures of War in Graphic Novels: Violence, Trauma and Memory, edited by Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal, was selected as the first runner-up for the 2019 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture.

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom by Tison Pugh received the 2019 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for the Best Work in LGBTQ Studies from the Popular Culture Association.

Ending Ageism: Or, How Not to Shoot Old People by Margaret Morganroth Gullette is winner of the 2019 Modern Language Association’s Prize for Independent Scholars.

2018 Awards

Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema by Maya Montañez Smukler is winner of the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association.

Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics by Lara Saguisag won the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work By One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture from the Popular Culture Association.

Children as Caregivers: The Global Fight against Tuberculosis and HIV in Zambia by Jean Hunleth is winner of the 2018 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award from the Association for Africanist Anthropology.

Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics by Soyica Diggs Colbert received an honorable mention for the 2018 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre.

Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition by Michelle J. Bellino is winner of the 2018 Comparative & International Education Society’s Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award, and the winner of the 2018 Council on Anthropology of Education’s Outstanding Book Award.

When Women Rule the Court: Gender, Race, and Japanese American Basketball by Nicole Willms is winner of the 2018 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Book Award.

Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students by Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon, Ana M. Martínez Alemán, and Mandy Savitz-Romer is winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities by Javon Johnson is co-winner of the 2018 Ethnography Division’s Best Book from the National Communication Association (NCA).

Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard F. Veit is winner of the 2018 Award of Merit and the 2018 Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History, and winner of the 2017 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award – Reference Category.

Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration by Allison McKim is winner of the 2018 Book of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on Women and Crime, and winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice.

Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique by T. Jackie Cuevas received an honorable mention for the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize from he National Women’s Studies Association.

Children and Drug Safety: Balancing Risk and Protection in Twentieth-Century America by Cynthia A. Connolly is winner of the 2018 Arthur J. Viseltear Award from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.

Discriminating Taste: How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution by S. Margot Finn is winner of the 2018 First Book Prize from the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS).

Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America by David Clary is winner of the 2018 Current Events/Social Change category in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and is winner of the 2018 Bronze Current Events (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) category of the Independent Publisher Book Award.

Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone by Katherine Zien is winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association, and is winner of the 2017 Annual Book Prize from the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS).

Mining Coal and Undermining Gender: Rhythms of Work and Family in the American West by Jessica Smith Rolston is winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award from the Western Social Science Association.

Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison is winner of the 2018 Early Career Gender Scholar Award from the Sociologists for Women in Society-South.

Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions: Programs, Policies, and Social Justice by Emery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney is winner of the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award.

Mothering by Degrees: Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education by Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson is winner of the 2018 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division J Outstanding Publication Award.

Living Class in Urban India by Sara Dickey received an honorable mention for the 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council (SAC) of the Association for Asian Studies.

Never Done: A History of Women’s Work in Media Production by Erin Hill is winner of the 2018 Best First Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).

2017 Awards

Playing the Ponies and Other Medical Mysteries Solved by Stuart B. Mushlin is a 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park by Christoph Lindner and Brian Rosa is a 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Child Survivors of the Holocaust: The Youngest Remnant and the American Experience by Beth B. Cohen is a 2017 Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize (WLEFP) Finalist.

The Dominican Racial Imaginary: Surveying the Landscape of Race and Nation in Hispaniola by Milagros Ricourt received an honorable mention for the 2017 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award from the Caribbean Studies Association.

Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/ Homo Normativities by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias is winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 by Laura Horak is a 2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, a finalist for the 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association, and long listed for the 2017 Kraszna-Krausz Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation.

Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood and Community by Riche Barnes is winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture by Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark is winner of the 2017 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism by Paul Young has been nominated for the Eisner Award – Best Academic/Scholarly Work from Comic-Con International.

Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation by Noam Pianko is the winner of the 2017 Saul Viener Book Prize from the American Jewish Historical Society.

Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today’s Art Film Culture by Mattias Frey has received an honorable mention for the 2017 Best Monograph Award from the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS).

Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television by Allison Perlman is the winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).