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Award Winning Titles

2008 AWARD WINNERS
 

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Best First Book Prize
SIGNS OF DEVOTION by Virginia Blanton

2008 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show, Scholarly Illustrated
BEYOND PLEASURE
Freud, Lacan, Barthes
Margaret Iversen
DYNAMIC SPLENDOR
The Wall Mosaics in the Cathedral of Eufrasius at Porec
Ann Terry and Henry Maguire

2008 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show, Trade Illustrated
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF WILLIAM BARTRAM
Judith Magee
JANE HAMMOND
Paper Work
Edited by Marianne Doezema

2007 AWARD WINNERS
 

2007 PSP Award for Excellence in the category of Art and Art History - DYNAMIC SPLENDOR - Ann Terry and Henry Maguire

2007 Book Prize of the British History of Education Society
FROM THE SALON TO THE SCHOOLROOM - Rebecca Rogers

2007 South Central MLA Book Prize
HOW ST. PETERSBURG LEARNED TO STUDY ITSELF
Emily Johnson

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
THE EARLY MODERN PAINTER-ETCHER - Michael Cole, ed.
LOST WORLDS - Jonathan Dewald
ILLUINATED HAGGADOT FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN - Katrin Kogman-Appel
DYNAMIC SPLENDOR - Ann Terry and Henry Maguire

2007 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show, Scholarly Illustrated
LOOKING INTO WALT WHITMAN
American Art, 1850-1920
Ruth L. Bohan

2007 AAUP Book Jacket and Journal Show, Jacket and Covers
HORSE-AND-BUGGY MENNONITES
Hoofbeats of Humility in a Postmodern World
Donald B. Kraybill and James P. Hurd

Winner of the Nikolai Antsiferov Prize for Best Contribution to the Study of St. Petersburg by a foreign author:
HOW ST. PETERSBURG LEARNED TO STUDY ITSELF
Emily Johnson

2006 AWARD WINNERS
 

2006 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
MEMOIRS OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, VOL II - Sergei Khrushchev, ed.

2006 Roy G. Neville Prize Award by the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
THE ENLIGHTENED JOSEPH PRIESTLY
A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804
Robert E. Schofield

2006 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award by the Society for Architectural Historians.
THE NATURE OF AUTHORITY
Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy
Dianne Harris

2005 AWARD WINNERS
 

2005 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association.
CITIES OF GOD
The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325
Augustine Thompson, O.P.

2005 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
FARMING FOR US ALL - Michael Mayerfeld Bell
IMITATION AND SOCIETY - Tom Huhn
THE NEW PALACES OF MEDIEVAL VENICE - Juergen Schulz

2005 Outstanding Publications Award given by the Communal Studies Association.
VOICES OF THE TURTLEDOVES
The Sacred World of Ephrata
Jeff Bach

2005 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
COMMUNITY OF THE CROSS
Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem
Craig D. Atwood

2005 Winner of the ISI Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award
RENAISSANCE PERFECTED
Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy
D. Medina Lasansky

2005 Heldt Award given by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) of the AAASS as the Best book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian studies
MUSIC FOR THE REVOLUTION
Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia
Amy Nelson

2005 Vasari Award presented by the Dallas Museum of Art for the finest art history book authored by a scholar in Texas
HOMER, EAKINS, and ANSHUTZ
The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age

The Dave Moore Award presented by Elysian Fields Quarterly
SEPTEMBER SWOON
Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration
Kashatus

Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award for 2005 presented by The Victorian Society in America for the book which the Society considers to have made the most significant contribution to nineteenth century studies in the prior year.
THE ROMANESQUE REVIVAL
Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange
Kathleen Curran

2004 AWARD WINNERS
 

2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
THE SPRING WILL BE OURS - Andrzej Paczkowski
PUBLIC PIERS PLOWMAN - David C. Benson
COMMUNITY OF THE CROSS - Craig D. Atwood
CHALLENGES FOR RURAL AMERICA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- David L. Brown and Louis E. Swanson with Alan W. Barton

2004 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
VOICES OF THE TURTLEDOVES
The Sacred World of Ephrata
Jeff Bach

2004 Thomas McGann Prize for the Best Book on Latin America, the Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies
FROM LIBERAL TO REVOLUTIONARY OAXACA
The View from the South, Mexico 1867-1911
Francie R. Chassen-López

James Russell Lowell Prize presented by the Modern Language Association
AT THE MARGINS OF THE RENAISSANCE
Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of Survival
Giancarlo Maiorino

W.E.B. DuBois Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
THE CONSTRAINT OF RACE
Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America
Linda Faye Williams

Michael Harrington Award "for an outstanding book that demonstrates how
scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world" awarded by the Caucus for a New Political Science, The Organized Section on New Political Science of the APSA
THE CONSTRAINT OF RACE
Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America
Linda Faye Williams

Best Book of 2004 on Public Policy and Race and Ethnicity awarded by the APSA's Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
THE CONSTRAINT OF RACE
Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America
Linda Faye Williams

2003 AWARD WINNERS
 

First Annual Book Award in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies from Young Center at Elizabethtown College
VOICES OF THE TURTLEDOVES
Jeff Bach

2003 PRINT Design Award - cover design
THE QUATTRO CENTO AND STONES OF RIMINI
Adrian Stokes

2003 Army Historical Foundation - Finalist
(2002) Distinguished Writing Award
THE VALLEY FORGE WINTER
Wayne Bodle

2003 Canadian Philosophical Association Book Prize - Runner Up (one of four)
TOLERATION, DIVERSITY, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE
Kok-Chor Tan

2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
THE SENTIMENTAL CITIZEN - George E. Marcus
ICONS OF POWER - Naomi Janowitz
NET LOSS - Nathan Newman
THE VALLEY FORGE WINTER - Wayne Bodle

2003 Best Book Prize - Runner Up
New England Council of Latin American Studies
PRESIDENTS WITHOUT PARTIES
Javier Corrales

2003 Mattei Dogan Award - Honorable Mention
For best book published in the field of comparative research
Society for Comparative Research
BLOOD AND DEBT
Miguel Centeno

2003 AAUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show
THE SENTIMENTAL CITIZEN
George Marcus
For Jacket. Designed by Lisa Tremaine
U.S. INTELLIGENCE AND THE CONFRONTATION IN POLAND, 1980-81
Douglas MacEachin
For Scholarly Typographic. Designed by Steve Kress

2003 Gründler Prize for the best book in Medieval Studies
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCAN
From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
David Burr

2003 Eleanor Tufts Award for Outstanding English-language publication, sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
INVENTING THE ART COLLECTION
Patrons, Markets, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Oscar Vázquez

2003 St. Paul Prize of the Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic Region
PIOUS TRADERS IN MEDICINE
German Pharmaceutical Networks in Eighteenth-Century North America
Renate Wilson

 

2002 AWARD WINNERS
 

2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize for best work on the history of the Catholic Church
American Catholic Historical Association
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS
From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
David Burr

2002 Howard R. Marraro Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association
THE SPIRITUAL FRANCISCANS
From Protest to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
David Burr

2002 Philip S. Klein Book Prize for best book that illuminates the history of Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Historical Association
MAKING AND REMAKING PENNSYLVANIA'S CIVIL WAR
William A. Blair and William Pencak

2002 Grundler Prize for the best book in Medieval Studies
The Medieval Institute
THE MAKING OF THE BIBLES MORALISEES
John Lowden

2002 Eleanor Tufts Award for Outstanding English-language publication,
sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
GARDENS, LANDSCAPE, AND VISION IN THE PALACES OF ISLAMIC SPAIN
D. Fairchild Ruggles

Kremers Award of the Institute for the History of Pharmacy at Wisconsin, Madison
PIOUS TRADERS IN MEDICINE
German Pharmaceutical Networks in Eighteenth-Century North America
Renate Wilson

 

2001 AWARD WINNERS
 

Honorable Mention 2001 James Mooney Award of the Southern Anthropological Society
THE ESTUARY'S GIFT
An Atlantic Coast Biogrpahy
David Griffith

2001 Casey Award Finalist sponsored by Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine
GATEWAY TO THE MAJORS
Williamsport and Minor League Baseball
James P. Quigel Jr. and Louis E. Hunsinger Jr.

Historic Preservation Prize Sponsored by the Center for Historic Preservation,
Mary Washington College
HOUSES FROM BOOKS
Treatises, Pattern Books, and Catalogs in American Architecture, 1738-1950: A History and Guide
Daniel D. Reiff

Eleanor Tufts Award for an Outstanding English Language Publication sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies
ART, LITURGY, AND LEGEND IN RENAISSANCE TOLEDO
The Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada
Lynette Bosch

Book, Jacket, and Journal Show of the Association of American University Presses - selected for jacket design

THE BUILDING IN THE TEXT
Roy Eriksen

FERNANDO DE ROJAS AND THE RENAISSANCE VISION
Ricardo Castells

Association of American Publishers Professional/ Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition - First prize in category of biography
GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM
Representative American Publisher
Ezra Greenspan

2000 AWARD WINNERS
 

Heldt Prize for Best Book by a Woman in Any Area of Slavic/Eastern European/
Eurasian Studies from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies
A PRODIGAL SAINT
Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People
Nadieszda Kizenko

Pennsylvania Historical Association's Phillip S. Klein Book Prize for 2000
A CATHOLIC NEW DEAL
Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh
Kenneth J. Heineman

Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
BOOK HISTORY
Edited by Ezra Greenspan and Jonathan Rose

1999 AWARD WINNERS
 

1999 Best First Book in the History of Religions - sponsored by the American Academy of Religion
POLITICS AND TRANSCENDENT WISDOM
The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism
Charles D. Orzech

1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book Award of the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition
INTENTIONS
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Arabella Lyon

Honorable Mention, 1999 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award of the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
POWER AND THE SACRED REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA
Religious Activists in the Village
Glennys Young

1999 Michael Harrington Award, Caucus for a New Political Science
NATIONALISM AND THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR MOVEMENT
The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory
Michael Forman

1999 Book of the Year Award of the Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association
SCHOOLS OF ASCETICISM
Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
Lutz Kaelber

1999 John N. Findlay Award of The Metaphysical Society of America
THE PLAIN SENSE OF THINGS
The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism
James C. Edwards

Heldt Prize for Best Translation in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's
Studies from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies
THE CULTURE OF LIES
Celia Hawkesworth, trans., Dubravka Ugresic

Ungar Prize The American Translators Association Awarded to Denise A. Kaiser for
her Outstanding Translation of
HERETICS AND SCHOLARS IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES, 1000-1200
(by Heinrich Fichtenau)

1998 AWARD WINNERS
 

1999 Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish American Historical Association
OPPOSITE POLES
Immigrants and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976-1900
Mary Patrice Erdmans

Myers Outstanding Book Award Winner for Books Published in 1997
(Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America)
TO AWAKEN MY AFFLICTED BRETHREN
David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
Peter P. Hinks

1998 Gradiva Award (National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis)
REPLICATIONS
Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis
Whitney Davis

1998 Bulgarian Studies Association Book Prize
DOMESTICATING REVOLUTION
From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village
Gerald W. Creed

Honorable Mention, 1998 Victoria Schuck Award
(American Political Science Association)
RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL THEORY
Feminist Perspectives

Edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan

Honorable Mention, 1998 Victoria Schuck Award
(American Political Science Association)
(DIS)ENTITLING THE POOR
The Warren Court, Welfare Rights, and the American Political Tradition
Elizabeth Bussiere

Honorable Mention, 1997 Collaboration Award of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
WOMEN AND ART IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
Patrons, Collectors, and Connoiseurs
Edited by Cynthia Lawrence

Distinguished Scholarly Publication of the American Sociological Association
THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM
Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution
John Markoff

1997 AWARD WINNERS
 

Rudolph and Hertha Benjamin Book Award
(American Photographic Historical Society)
THE PAINTED PHOTOGRAPH
1839-1914

Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget Henisch

American Conference on Romanticism Book Prize
POETIC MADNESS AND THE ROMANTIC IMAGIINATION
Frederick Burwick

David Pickney Prize
(Society for French Historical Studies)
THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM
Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution
John Markoff

Allan Sharlin Memorial Award
(Social Science History Association)
THE ABOLITION OF FEUDALISM
Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution
John Markoff

Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize
(Conference for the Study of Political Thought)
A CIVIL TONGUE
Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism
Mark Kingwell

Arthur P. Whitaker Book Award
(Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies)
THE CARIBBEAN LEGION
Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950
Charles D. Ameringer

Award of Merit
American Association for State and Local History
RURAL DELIVERY
Real Photo Postcards from Central Pennsylvania
Jody Blake and Jeannette Lasansky

Honor Book
Children's Literature Association
ANGELS AND WILD THINGS
The Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak
John Cech

Best Book Relating to the Old Testament
(Biblical Archaeology Society)
THE ICONOGRAPHY OF JOB THROUGH THE CENTURIES
Artists as Biblical Interpreters
Samuel Terrien

Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award
(Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
NIMES AT WAR
Religions, Politics, and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-1942
Robert D. Zaretsky

1996 AWARD WINNERS
  International Labor History Association Book of the Year
THE MINERS OF WINDBER
The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s to 1930s
Mildred Allen Beik
1995 AWARD WINNERS
 

Best First Book in the History of Religions
(American Academy of Religion)
ISLAMIZATION AND NATIVE RELIGION IN THE GOLDEN HORDE
Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
Devin DeWeese

Albert Hourani Book Award
(Middle East Studies Association)
ISLAMIZATION AND NATIVE RELIGION IN THE GOLDEN HORDE
Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
Devin DeWeese

Donald Murphy Prize for First Book in Irish Studies
American Conference for Irish Studies
THE PROSE LITERATURE OF THE GAELIC REVIVAL, 1881-1921
Philip O'Leary

1994 AWARD WINNERS
 

Honorable Mention, Best Book in Arts, Literature, and Language
(Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers)
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE, 1839-1914
Images and Attitudes
Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch

Biennial Young Scholar Award for the Best Book in Polish Studies
(Polish Studies Association)
THE POWER OF SYMBOLS AGAINST THE SYMBOLS OF POWER

The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland
Jan Kubik

Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History
(Conference on Faith and History)
JOURNEYMEN FOR JESUS
Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitolism in Jacksonia Baltimore
William R. Sutton

1993 AWARD WINNERS
 

Honorable Mention, Phi Beta Kappa Book Award

MICHELANGLO'S NOSE
Paul Barolsky

WHY MONA LISA SMILES AND OTHER TALES

Paul Barolsky

GIOTTO'S FATHER AND THE FAMILY OF VASARI'S LIVES

Paul Barolsky

James Holly Hanford Award
(Milton Society of America)
MILTON IN GOVERNMENT
Robert Thomas Fallon

Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical History
(American Society of Church History)
FOR THE UNION OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTENDOM
The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians
Allen C. Guelzo

1992 AWARD WINNERS
 

Distinguished Scholarship Book Award
Marxist Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
THE REVENGE OF HISTORY
Marxism and the East European Revolutions
Alex Callinicos

Outstanding Book on the Subject of Human Rights
(Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States)
WHO IS BLACK?
One Nation's Definition
James F. Davis

Victoria Schuck Award for the Best Book on Women and Politics
(American Political Science Association)
ENGENDERING DEMOCRACY
Anne Phillips

1991 AWARD WINNERS
 

Honorable Mention, European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
A Cognitive Approach
Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison

Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History
(Conference on Faith and History)
A FIELD OF DIVINE WONDERS
The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792-1822
David W. King

Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Award for the Best Researched Book About the Media
JOSEPH PULITZER II AND THE POST-DISPATCH
A Newspaperman's Life
Daniel W. Pfaff

Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History
(Conference on Faith and History)
THE PROFANE, THE CIVIL, AND THE GODLY
The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679-1749
Richard P. Gildrie

1970–1990 AWARD WINNERS
 

1983
Confederation Internationale des Negociants en Oeuvres d'Art)
MASONS AND SCULPTORS IN ROMANESQUE BURGANDY
The New Aesthetic of Cluny III
C. Edson Armi

1980
Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
The American Academy of Cluny III
JUAN RUIZ'S "THE BOOK OF TRUE LOVE"
Saralyn R. Daly, translator

1973
Alice David Hitchcock Book Award
(Society of Architectural Historians)
THE EARLY CHURCHES OF CONSTANTINOPLE
Architecture and Liturgy
Thomas F. Mathews

1970
David B. Lloyd Prize for the Best Book on the Period of the
Presidency of Harry S. Truman
(The Harry S. Truman Library Institute)
ATOMIC SHIELD, 1947-1952
A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume II