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2024


Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat
Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan

Ali Usman Qasmi

AIPS Prize
American Institute of Pakistan Studies


No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen
Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg

Shapiro Award
Association for Israel Studies (AIS)


Blood and Lightning
On Becoming a Tattooer

Dustin Kiskaddon

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Adrift on an Inland Sea
Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands

Hal Langfur

Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Brazil Section

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize
American Society for Ethnohistory

 

Supreme Bias
Gender and Race in U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand

C. Herman Pritchett Award
American Political Science Association (APSA) - Law and Courts Section


India Is Broken
A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Ashoka Mody

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Hegel
The Philosopher of Freedom

Klaus Vieweg

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Who Needs Gay Bars?
Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places

Greggor Mattson

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Mother Cow, Mother India
A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India

Yamini Narayanan

Mid-Career Book Prize
Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)


The Vulgarity of Caste
Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India

Shailaja Paik

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) - South Asia Council


Why?
The Philosophy Behind the Question

Philippe Huneman

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


My Brother, My Land
A Story from Palestine

Sami Hermez, with Sireen Sawalha

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


The Kid Across the Hall
The Fight for Opportunity in Our Schools

Reid Saaris

Montaigne Medal
Eric Hoffer Award


Interconnected Worlds
Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

ISA Asia-Pacific Distinguished Book Award
International Studies Association (ISA)


Empire of Refugees
North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Identity Investments
Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile

Joel Phillip Stillerman

Consumers and Consumption Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption


Elastic Empire
Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine

Lisa Bhungalia

Palestine Book Awards
Middle East Monitor (MEMO)


Black Culture, Inc.
How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America

Patricia A. Banks

Consumers and Consumption Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption


Dream Super-Express
A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train

Jessamyn Abel

Modern Japan History Association Book Prize
Modern Japan History Association (MJHA)


Constructing the Sacred

Elaine A. Sullivan

ACLS Open Access Book Prize
American Council of Learned Societies

2023


Breathless
Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India

Andrew McDowell

The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)


The Socialist Patriot

Peter Stansky

Peter Davison Award
The Orwell Society


Daughter of History
Traces of an Immigrant Girlhood

Susan Rubin Suleiman

National Jewish Book Awards
Jewish Book Council


Dust on the Throne
The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

Douglas Ober

Cundill History Prize
McGill University, Cundill Foundation


Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah
The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe

Alan Verskin

Ten Beau­ti­ful Book Cov­ers of 2023
Jewish Book Council


Melville's Democracy
Radical Figuration and Political Form

Jennifer Greiman

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


The Jews of Summer
Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

Sandra Fox

National Jewish Book Awards
Jewish Book Council


Adrift on an Inland Sea
Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands

Hal Langfur

Roberto Reis Prize
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)


Global Burning

Eve Darian-Smith

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation

Lenora Hanson

Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University

Marilyn Gaull Book Award
Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

 

Losing Istanbul
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

Mostafa Minawi

MESA Book Awards
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)


Anteaesthetics
Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form

Rizvana Bradley

Top Books of 2023
FRIEZE


Auden and the Muse of History

Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism
Poetry Foundation


Undesirables

Aomar Boum, Illustrated by Nadjib Berber

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


How to Live at the End of the World

Travis Holloway

Research Recognition Award
the Academic Senate and the Office of the Provost, Pratt Institute

Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award
SUNY Farmingdale State College

 

India Is Broken
A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

Ashoka Mody

Best Summer Book
Financial Times


Projecting Spirits
Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical Media

Pasi Väliaho

Limina Award for the Best International Cinema Studies Book
CINEMA & Cie. International Film Studies Journal


The Baron
Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century

Matthias B. Lehmann

National Jewish Book Awards
Jewish Book Council


Perpetrators
Encountering Humanity's Dark Side

Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Alexander Laban Hinton

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


The Biomedical Empire

Barbara Katz Rothman

Outstanding Scholarship Award
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division


The Vulgarity of Caste
Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India

Shailaja Paik

John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History
American Historical Association (AHA)


Secret Leviathan
Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism

Mark Harrison

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


The Future of Executive Development

Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas

Axiom Business Book Awards


Racial Baggage
Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border

Sylvia Zamora

ASA Section on Latina/o Sociology: Distinguished Contribution to Research
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Section on Latino/a Sociology


Tyrants on Twitter
Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare

David L. Sloss

Silver Gavel Award
American Bar Association


Atomic Steppe
How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb

Togzhan Kassenova

Marshall D. Shulman Book Prize
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)


Delhi Reborn
Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital

Rotem Geva

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
New India Foundation


Academic Outsider

Victoria Reyes

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association

 

New World of Gain
Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy

Brian P. Owensby

Friedrich Katz Prize
American Historical Association (AHA)


Contact Strategies
Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil

Heather F. Roller

Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize
Conference on Latin American History


The College Devaluation Crisis
Market Disruption, Diminishing ROI, and an Alternative Future of Learning

Jason Wingard

Axiom Business Book Awards


Interconnected Worlds
Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia

Henry Wai-chung Yeung

Axiom Business Book Awards


1368
China and the Making of the Modern World

Ali Humayun Akhtar

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Transnational Palestine
Migration and the Right of Return before 1948

Nadim Bawalsa

Palestine Book Awards
Middle East Monitor (MEMO)

MESA Book Awards
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

 

Practicing Sectarianism
Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon

Edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


Surviving Solitary
Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units

Danielle S. Rudes, with Shannon Magnuson and Angela Hattery

ACJS Outstanding Book Award
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association

 

The Border Within
Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin

Phi Hong Su

Annual Book Review Award
International Migration Review

Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award
Honorable Mention
American Sociological Association (ASA) - International Migration Section

 

Unfree
Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award
American Sociological Association (ASA)


Laboring for Justice
The Fight Against Wage Theft in an American City

Rebecca Berke Galemba

Kate Browne Creativity in Research Award
Society for Economic Anthropology

SEA Book Prize
American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Economic Anthropology

 

SAW Book Prize
Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW)

 

Understanding Global Migration

Edited by James F. Hollifield and Neil Foley

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


Translating Food Sovereignty
Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance

Matthew C. Canfield

APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)


Marriage Unbound
State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China

Ke Li

ASA Sociology of Law Distinguished Book Award
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Sociology of Law Section

Herbert Jacob Book Prize
Law and Society Association (LSA)

 

Victoria Schuck Award
APSA - American Political Science Association

 

C. Herman Pritchett Award
American Political Science Association (APSA) - Law and Courts Section

 

Building Downtown Los Angeles
The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America

Leland T. Saito

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title
American Library Association


Strike Patterns
Notes from Postwar Laos

Leah Zani

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)


Recording History
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

Christopher Silver

L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies
American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)

Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
Association for Recorded Sound Collections

 

Wartime North Africa
A Documentary History, 1934–1950

Edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Annual Reference Award
Association of Jewish Libraries

Best Historical Materials
American Library Association

 

States of Subsistence
The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan

José Ciro Martínez

Charles Taylor Book Award
American Political Science Association (APSA) - Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group (IMM)

MESA Book Awards
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

 

Media of the Masses
Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt

Andrew Simon

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)

Top Ten Book of the Year
On the Media, sponsored by the WNYC Studios

 

Western Privilege
Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai

Amélie Le Renard, Translated by Jane Kuntz

AGAPS Book Award
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies ( AGAPS )


Minor Transpacific
Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions

David S. Roh

AAAS Best Book in Literary Studies
Association for Asian American Studies


Reimagining Money
Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution

Sibel Kusimba

SEA Book Prize
American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Economic Anthropology


After Stories
Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador

Irina Carlota Silber

Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs)

APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA)

 

International Latino Book Award
Latino Literacy Now

 

International Latino Book Award
Latino Literacy Now

 

What Pornography Knows
Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century

Kathleen Lubey

Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University


Lawful Sins
Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

Elyse Ona Singer

Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize
American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Association for Feminist Anthropology

Council on Anthropology & Reproduction Book Award
Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR)

 

Dark Finance
Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe

Fabio Mattioli

SEA Book Prize
American Anthropological Association (AAA) - Society for Economic Anthropology


Iran in Motion
Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway

Mikiya Koyagi

Japan Consortium for Area Studies Toryu-sho (Budding Scholar) Award
Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS)


Holy Digital Grail
A Medieval Book on the Internet

Michelle R. Warren

Book History Book Prize
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP)


A History of False Hope
Investigative Commissions in Palestine

Lori Allen

Vinson Sutlive Book Prize in Historical Anthropology
Department of Anthropology at William & Mary


The Souls of White Jokes
How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy

Raúl Pérez

Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book
American Sociological Association (ASA) - Sociology of Culture Section


Black Culture, Inc.
How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America

Patricia A. Banks

Axiom Business Book Awards