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Peruvian Street Lives
Cited as one of two Leeds Honor Books for 2006 by the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA).

Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
Recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor award in the classical music category (2006).

French Gay Modernism
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.

Sport, Play, and Ethical Reflection
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.

The Rural Face of White Supremacy
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.

Dancing Wisdom
Winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006).

Peking Opera and Politics in Taiwan
Recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor award for ethnomusicology (2006). A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.

Dewey and Elvis
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006

The Tribe of Black Ulysses
Winner of the H. L. Mitchell Award (2006) given by the Southern History Association and the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History (2005)

American Ghost Roses
Recipient of a Society of Midland Authors award for poetry published in 2005 (2006).

Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
Winner of the first annual Saddlebag Award, given by the Historical Society of the United Methodist Church (2006).

Never Seen the Moon
Winner of the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Celebration of Appalachian Writing Award (2006) and the W. D. Weatherford Award for Non-fiction in Appalachian Studies (2005).

Going Indian
Co-winner of the James Mooney Award, presented at the Southern Anthropological Society meeting. This award honors distinguished anthropological scholarship on the South and Southerners published in the previous two calendar years (2005 & 2006).

Habits of Compassion
Co-winner of the 2006 First Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Come Hither to Go Yonder
Bob Black was named the International Bluegrass Music Association Print Media Personality of the Year for his book (2006).

African Americans in the Furniture City
Winner of a State History Award in the University and Commercial Press category from the Historical Society of Michigan (2006).

In the Sierra Madre
Winner of the Gold medal in the Travel Essays Category for the 2006 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards contest.