PRIZES
American Historical Association, 2021 James A. Rawley Prize.
Bigelow, Allison Margaret. Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Cleveland Foundation. 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for important contribution to understand racism and human diversity.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
College Art Association, 2022, Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.
Robert Cozzolino, ed. Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art. Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Columbia University. 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Chatelain, Marcia. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America. New York: Liveright/Norton, 2020.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize for outstanding nonfiction book on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.
Kars, Marjoleine. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast. New York: The New Press, 2020.
McGill University. 2021 Cundhill History Prize for outstanding book that embodies scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.
Kars, Marjoleine. Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast. New York: The New Press, 2020.
Modern Language Association, 2020 Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book.
Bigelow, Allison Margaret. Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World. Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
National Book Foundation, 2021 National Book Award.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Organization of American Historians, 2021 Merle Curti Intellectual History Prize.
Felber, Garrett. Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Organization of American Historians. 2022 Darlene Clark Hine Award for best book in African American women’s and gender history.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Organization of American Historians. 2022 Lawrence W. Levine Award for best book in American cultural history.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
PEN America. 2022 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for outstanding book of nonfiction.
Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. New York: Penguin Random House, 2021.
Archaeology
Knodell, Alex. Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History. University of California Press, 2021.
Mickel, Allison. Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2021.
Architecture
Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664–1962. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.
Boivin, Katherine M. Riemenschneider in Rothenburg: Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City. State College: Penn State University Press, 2021.
Arts: History and Criticism
Bredeson, Kate, ed. The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1958–1971. New York: Routledge, 2022.
McWilliam, Neil. The Aesthetics of Reaction: Tradition, Faith, Identity and the Visual Arts in France, c. 1900–1914. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Phillips, Amanda. Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.
Popkin, Maggie L. Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Swan, Claudia. Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Thomson-Jones, Katherine. Image in the Making: Digital Innovation and the Visual Arts. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
History: Non-U.S.
Ansari, Hassan and Sabine Schmidtke, eds. Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2022.
Balbale, Abigail Krasner. The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Bittner, Stephen V. Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Bond, Elizabeth Andrews. The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Dover, Paul M. The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Fajardo, Margarita. The World that Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.
Frame, Grant. The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC). University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Freitas, Frederico. Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Garcia, María Elena. Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
Greble, Emily. Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Hafez, Melis. Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Kallander, Amy Aisen. Tunisia’s Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Kars, Marjoleine. Blood in the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast. New York: The New Press, 2020.
López-Ruiz, Carolina. Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.
Miles, Steven B. Opportunity in Crisis: Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2021.
Pifer, Michael. Kindred Voices: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
Richardson, Kristina. Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture, and Migration. London: I. B. Tauris, 2021.
Roller, Heather F. Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2021.
Romo, Anadelia. Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022.
Scott, Erik. Treason in Transit: Soviet Defectors and the Borders of the Cold War World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Shear, Julia. Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Vergara, Ángela. Fighting Unemployment in Twentieth-Century Chile. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.
History of Science and Technology
Etheridge, Kay. The Flowering of Ecology: Maria Sibylla Merian’s Caterpillar Book. Boston: Brill, 2021.
Farquhar, Judith with Lili Lai. Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Frohman, Larry. The Politics of Personal Information: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany. New York: Berghahn, 2020.
Petersen, Jennifer. How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Ritchey, Sara. Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Turner, James Morton. Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022.
History: U.S.
Bennett, M. Todd. Neither Confirm nor Deny: How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA From Transparency. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
Crain, Matthew. Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Felber, Garrett. Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Goin, Peter. The Nature of Lake Tahoe: A Photographic History, 1860–1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
Haller, Charlotte A., intro. Pretty Powerful: 100 Years of Voting & Style. Worchester Historical Museum, 2022.
Holton, Woody. Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Laracey, Mel. Informing a Nation: The Newspaper Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Melnick, Ross. Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
Pearson, Susan J. The Birth Certificate: An American History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Wiegand, Wayne A. American Public School Librarianship: A History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Wolcott, Victoria W. Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Literature and Literary Theory
Blasing, Molly Thomasy. Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
Cerulli, Anthony. The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Colbert, Soyica Diggs. Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Forsberg, Laura. Worlds Beyond: Miniatures and Victorian Fiction. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021.
Hayot, Eric. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
Hussey, Mark. Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Kaminsky, Amy K. The Other/Argentina: Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in the Making of a Modern Nation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.
Koretsky, Deanna P. Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021.
Mann, Barbara E. The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Paris, Václav. The Evolutions of Modernist Epic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Rabalais, Nathan J. Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Smith, Michelle C. Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women’s Work in the Early Industrial Age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2021.
Trettien, Whitney. Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Woodford-Gormley, Donna. Shakespeare in Cuba: Caliban’s Books. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021.
Zeltsman, Corinna. Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
Music
Bank, Katie. Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music. London: Routledge, 2021.
Cohen, Norm, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas, eds. An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century. Music of the United States of America, Volume 32. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2021.
Fumerton, Patricia. The Broadside Ballad in Early Modern England: Moving Media, Tactical Publics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.
Jankowsky, Richard. Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Lapidus, Benjamin. New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940–1990. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Moore, Celeste Day. Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
Schmelz, Peter J. Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Stone, Jonathan. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2021.
Wallmark, Zachary. Nothing but Noise: Timbre and Musical Meaning at the Edge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Weidman, Amanda. Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
Zazulia, Emily. Where Sight Meets Sound: The Poetics of Late-Medieval Music Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Philosophy
Helmer, Etienne. Oikonomia. Philosophie grecque de l’économie. Paris: Garnier, 2021.
Kelsey, Sean. Mind and World in Aristotle’s De Anima. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Lipscomb, Benjamin J. B. The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Schroeder, Mark. Reasons First. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Volk, Katharina. The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Religion
Lee, Joel. Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism, and Underground Religion. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Social Science
Hoag, Colin. The Fluvial Imagination: On Lesotho’s Water-Export Economy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.
Forestal, Jennifer. Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Oakdale, Suzanne. Amazonian Cosmopolitans: Navigating a Shamanic Cosmos, Shifting Indigenous Policies, and Other Modern Projects. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2022.
Ozawa-de Silva, Chikako. The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021.
