Recent Award Winners

Picasso's Demoiselles:
The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

Suzanne Preston Blier

Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism

Shimmering Images:
Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change

Eliza Steinbock

Winner, 2020 Best First Book Award, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Experimental Beijing:
Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art

Sasha Su-Ling Welland

Winner, 2020 Joseph E. Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, presented by the Association for Asian Studies

Work! A Queer History of Modeling

Elspeth H. Brown

Finalist, Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History, presented by the Organization of American Historians

Pop América, 1965–1975

Esther Gabara, editor

Honorable Mention, 2020 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Book Award, presented by the College Art Association

Reclaiming the Discarded:
Life and Labor on Rio's Garbage Dump

Kathleen M. Millar

Winner, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) Best Book Award

Honorable Mention, Sharon Stephens Prize, presented by the American Ethnological Association

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Best Book in the Social Sciences

Finalist, 2018 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize

Honorable Mention, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize / Best Book in Social Sciences, presented by the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Empire of Neglect:
The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism

Christopher Taylor

Winner of the 2019 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery:
Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History

Alys Eve Weinbaum

Winner, 2019 Sarah A. Whaley Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2019 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

The Great Woman Singer:
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music

Licia Fiol-Matta

Co-Winner, 2019 United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies Book Award, presented by the Modern Language Association

Infrahumanisms:
Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood

Megan H. Glick

Winner, 2019 Alison Piepmeier Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

Black Feminism Reimagined:
After Intersectionality

Jennifer C. Nash

Winner, 2019 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Prize, presented by the National Women's Studies Association

The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen:
Reconstructing Native Hawaiian Intellectual History

Noenoe K. Silva

Winner of the Ka Palapala Po'okela Award in the "Aloha from Across the Sea" category from the Hawaii Book Publishers Association

Decolonizing Extinction:
The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation

Juno Salazar Parreñas

Winner of the 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize, presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2020 Harry J. Benda Prize, presented by the Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies

Honorable Mention, 2019 Diana Forstyhe Prize, presented by the General Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association

Honorable Mention, New Millennium Book Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

The Pursuit of Happiness:
Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism

Bianca C. Williams

Winner of the Second Annual Nelson Graburn Book Award, presented by the Anthropology Tourism Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association

None Like Us:
Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

Stephen Best

Honorable Mention, 2019 ASAP Prize, presented by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

The Fetish Revisited:
Marx, Freud, and the Gods Black People Make

J. Lorand Matory

Winner, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies from the American Academy of Religion

Fugitive Modernities:
Kisama and the Politics of Freedom

Jessica A. Krug

Finalist, 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Finalist, 2019 Harriet Tubman Prize

Is it Still Good To Ya?:
Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967–2017

Robert Christgau

Finalist, 2018 National Book Critic's Circle Award

Bright Signals:
A History of Color Television

Susan Murray

Winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Winner of the Michael Nelson Prize, presented by the International Associate for Media and History

Domesticating Democracy:
The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia

Susan Helen Ellison

Winner, 2019 Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (ALPA) Book Award

Winner of the Bryce Wood Book Award, presented by the Latin American Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2018 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing

Sins against Nature:
Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain

Zeb Tortorici

Winner of the Alan Bray Prize Memorial Book Prize, presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Winner of the John Boswell Prize, presented by the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History of the American Historical Association

Winner of the Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, presented by NECLAS

Immediations:
The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary

Pooja Rangan

Winner of the 2019 Harry Levin Prize, presented by the American Comparative Literature Association

The Right to Maim:
Debility, Capacity, Disability

Jasbir K. Puar

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Award, presented by the GLQ Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Migrant Returns:
Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity

Eric J. Pido

Winner of the 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Social Sciences

Downwardly Global:
Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora

Lalaie Ameeriar

Honorable Mention, 2019 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Social Sciences

The Labor of Faith:
Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism

Judith Casselberry

Winner of the 2019 Pneuma Book Award from the Society for Pentecostal Studies

Authoring Autism:
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness

Melanie Yergeau

Winner of the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship Book Award

How Development Projects Persist:
Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs

Erin Beck

Honorable Mention, 2019 International Political Association (IPS) Section of the International Studies Association Book Award