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Award-Winning Books
Featured award-winning titles
Recent Awards
Form and Remembrance after National Socialism
Winner,
Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
Winner,
National Indie Excellence Book Awards - Multicultural Nonfiction
A Requiem for Queer Suicide
Shortlisted,
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Outstanding Book Award
A Theology of Healing from Sexual Trauma
Winner,
College Theology Society Book Award
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
Winner,
2025 IPPY AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTION – ADULT (GOLD)
Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right
Winner,
Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Jackets and Covers Category
The Pacific War in American and New Zealand Fiction Writing
Winner,
Javier Coy Biennial Research Award, Best Monograph
The Language of God in the Afghan Highlands
Winner,
Carolina's Outstanding Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Award
A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865
Winner,
Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize
New York's Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car
Shortlisted,
Gotham Book Award
History and Citizenship after State Violence
Winner,
The L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies
Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Brazil
Winner,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies
Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
Winner,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Middle Eastern Studies
A New History of Skaldic Poetics
Winner,
Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
Winner,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness
Winner,
2024 Beat Studies Association Awards
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
Winner,
2024 Best Indie Books Awards, Culinary Memoir
A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals
Winner,
Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess
Shortlisted,
Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
History and Citizenship after State Violence
Shortlisted,
African Studies Association Best Book Prize
A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience
Winner,
2024 Living Now Book Award, Inspirational Memoir – Male (BRONZE)
Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety
Longlisted,
Allan Lloyd Smith Prize for Best Monograph
Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury
Winner,
College Theology Society Book Award
The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II
Winner,
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Awards - First Book
A Performative Theory of Political Trials
Winner,
SLSA Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize
Property Law and Postcolonial Style
Winner,
Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
Untimely Notes on Names and Desires
Shortlisted,
Publishing Triangle Awards: The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction
Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
Winner,
Victorian Society in America Book Award
A Performative Theory of Political Trials
Shortlisted,
The Hart–SLSA Book Prize
Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
Winner,
FRIENDS of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Publiciation Award
Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy
Winner,
AHA Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Commended,
The Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize in Human Sexuality & Anthropology
Architect Charles B. J. Snyder and the New York City Public Schools
Winner,
The Victorian Society New York Book Award
The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity
Shortlisted,
Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction
A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
Winner,
Independent Publisher Book Awards | IPPY Book Awards, LGBTQ+ Fiction
Daily Meditations from the Plague Year
Winner,
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, Trade Typographic
Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park
Winner,
Victorian Society in America Book Award
A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York
Shortlisted,
Lambda Literary Award in Gay Memoir/Biography
Thinking through Synesthesia
Winner,
Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
The Rwanda Genocide against the Tutsi through the Eyes of Children
Winner,
Albertine Translation Fund and Prizes
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Winner,
Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize
A Theory of Speculative Critique
Commended,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization
Commended,
James Russell Lowell Prize
Language and the Media of Sociality
Commended,
The L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies
Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain
Winner,
Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize
Inheriting the Korean War
Winner,
Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize
Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
Winner,
Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies
Commended,
Association of Catholic Publishers 2022 Excellence in Publishing Awards: First Place, Theology Catholic Media Association, Honorable Mention in Theology: Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption
Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education
Commended,
Third Place - Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching
Waking Up from Petroculture
Commended,
Alanna Bodnar Memorial Book Prize for the Environmental Humanities
Environmental Crisis and World Literature
Shortlisted,
ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award
A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
Commended,
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - 2021 BRONZE Winner for Biography
Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability
Winner,
Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
The Making of Concretism in Brazil
Winner,
Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category
Winner,
Association of Catholic Publishers 2022 Excellence in Publishing Awards: First Place, Theology
Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide
Winner,
The Frantz Fanon Prize
Eucharist, Consumer Culture, and the Practice of Everyday Life
Winner,
HTI Book Prize
A Lifelong Fight for Social Justice
Winner,
PROSE Awards Category Winner - Biography & Autobiography
The Trials of James Collins Johnson
Winner,
New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Authors' Awards Program
Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics
Shortlisted,
Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Winner,
Ruth Benedict Book Prize
Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal
Winner,
African Literature Association First Book Award
Genocide and Its Functionaries
Winner,
Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress
Winner,
American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Necroepistemology in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Winner,
Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Prize
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Winner,
Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb
Winner,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics
Winner,
William Sanders Scarborough Prize
The Deadly Discourse on the Jewish Joke
Commended,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Environmental Crisis and World Literature
Shortlisted,
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World
Winner,
Nautilus Award
The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
Commended,
American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Italian Americans and Immigration Reform, 1945-1965
Winner,
Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award
The Queer Politics of Art in Modern American Fiction
Shortlisted,
Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
On the Accommodation of Violent Death
Winner,
The French-American Foundation Translation Prize
Film between Italy and the United States
Winner,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva
Winner,
Frederick Streng Book Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Runner-up,
Edinburgh Gadda Prize
An Ecology of Separation
Winner,
Grand Prize Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Health, Disease, Poverty
Commended,
Association for Feminist Anthropology Senior Book Prize
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Winner,
Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies
Commended,
MLA Howard R. Marraro Prize
Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility
Commended,
MLA Prize for a First Book
Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books
Winner,
DAAD/GSA Book Prize
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
Commended,
Arab American Book Award
Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
Winner,
American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize
Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Winner,
J. Owen Grundy History Award
Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading
Winner,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art
Shortlisted,
ACE Mercers' Award
Orality and Its Technologies
Winner,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies
Victorian Sciences of Nature and Sexuality in Liberal Governance
Commended,
Sonya Rudikoff NVSA Book Award
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Winner,
New York City Book Awards, Hornblower Award for a First Book
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise
Commended,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy
Winner,
Courage to Dream Book Prize
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Commended,
William Sanders Scarborough Prize
U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood
Winner,
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Dilemmas of Privacy in Psychotherapy
Shortlisted,
American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize
The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax
Winner,
ACP Excellence in Publishing Awards in the Biography Category
Admen, Advertising, and the Golden Age of Radio
Winner,
Broadcast Historian Award
Shortlisted,
Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies
New York City's Public Libraries, 1754-1911
Winner,
The Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Book Prize
Disability, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory
Commended,
European Studies Book Award
Transnationalism and the Roman Catholic Church
Longlisted,
Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion
Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
Winner,
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies
Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament
Winner,
Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book
Oral Histories of India's Partition
Winner,
Outstanding Book, International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) of the National Communication Association
The Historical Formation of Human Rights
Winner,
Robert Lowry Patten Award
Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion
Winner,
American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence, Constructive-Reflective Studies
Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature
Shortlisted,
Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize
Oral Histories of India's Partition
Commended,
International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Book Award
Consumer Culture and the Production of Ethnic Identities
Winner,
John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer in Popular and American Culture
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Shortlisted,
Wallace K. Ferguson Award
Conversations with Dan Arbib
Winner,
Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
Longlisted,
The Florence Gould Foundation and the French-American Foundations Translation Prize
2012 and Other Ends of the World
Winner,
Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
When Are We Ever at Home?
Winner,
Grand Prize Winner of the French Voices Translation Award
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Commended,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Winner,
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Award
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Winner,
Harry Levin Prize
The Postmonolingual Condition
Commended,
Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
Commended,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Runner-up,
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize
Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity
Winner,
South Central Modern Language Association Book Award
Intersections in Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-first Century
Winner,
Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award
The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870
Winner,
Hortense Simmons Prize for the Advancement of Knowledge
Women Warriors and the Dynastic Imagination in the 'Orlando furioso'
Winner,
American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize (Medieval/Renaissance/Baroque)
Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Commended,
Harry Levin Prize
Essays in the Politics of Culture
Winner,
Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year
The Postmonolingual Condition
Winner,
Aldo & Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Elegiac Humanism in Wartime and Postwar Lebanon
Commended,
Choice: Outstanding Academic Title
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
Winner,
NJSAA Authors Awards
The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J.
Winner,
William Noe Field Award for Catholic New Jersey History
Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature
Winner,
Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize
The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
Winner,
MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis
Winner,
The New York City Book Awards
Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
Winner,
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category
The Greek Left and the Terror of the State
Winner,
Prose Award in Archeology and Anthropology
The Grand Concourse at 100
Winner,
2010 Merit Award in the Scholarly and Professional Category
New York's River Festival of 1909 and the Making of a Metropolis
Winner,
Greater Hudson Heritage Network Annual Awards Towards Excellence
Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton
Winner,
Isabel G. MacCaffrey Prize for the Best Book on Spenser and Renaissance Literature
The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
Winner,
René Wellek Prize
Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination
Winner,
National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship