Browse Award Winners

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1982 1979 1978

The Beautiful Music All Around Us

• Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2016
• ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, 2013
• Award for Excellence for Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2013
Author: Stephen Wade

Watching Women's Liberation, 1970

• Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award, Feminist and Women Studies Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
Author: Bonnie J. Dow

Beyond Partition

• Eugene M. Kayden Book Award in Literary Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016
Author: Deepti Misri

The Music of the Stanley Brothers

• Best Discography, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2016
• Bluegrass Print/Media Person of the Year, International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), 2015
Author: Gary B. Reid

Scripts of Blackness

• Co-winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award, Puerto Rican Studies Association, 2016
Author: Isar P. Godreau

When Sex Threatened the State

• NSA Book Award, Nigerian Studies Association, 2016
Author: Saheed Aderinto

Disability Histories

• Honorable Mention, Best Book Award, Disability History Association, 2016
Author: Edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis

Daisy Turner's Kin

• Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society, 2016
• Wayland D. Hand Prize, History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Author: Jane C. Beck

Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands

• C. Calvin Smith Award, Southern Conference on African American Studies (SCAASI), 2016
Author: Will Guzmán

Stunning Males and Powerful Females

• Co-winner, Philip Brett Award, LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS), 2016
• Honorable mention, Alan Merriam Prize, 2016
Author: Christina Sunardi

St. Louis Rising

• Missouri History Book Award, State Historical Society of Missouri, 2016
• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015
Author: Carl J. Ekberg and Sharon K. Person

Struggle for the Soul of the Postwar South

• David Montgomery Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2016
Author: Elizabeth Fones-Wolf and Ken Fones-Wolf

Sexting Panic

• Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
Author: Amy Adele Hasinoff

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

• Finalist, Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, Utah Center for the Book, 2016
• Honorable Mention, Best Biography, Mormon History Association, 2016
Author: Michael Hicks

Making Photography Matter

• James A. Winans and Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016
• Outstanding Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA), 2015
Author: Cara A. Finnegan

Sensing Chicago

• Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society, 2016
Author: Adam Mack

A City Called Heaven

• Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2016
Author: Robert M. Marovich

This Book Is an Action

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Author: Edited by Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr

Seeing Sarah Bernhardt

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Author: Victoria Duckett

The Man That Got Away

• Timothy White Award for Musical Biography, ASCAP Foundation and Virgil Thomson Foundation, 2016
Author: Walter Rimler

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Author: Roger Daniels

Smokestacks in the Hills

• Honorable mention, David Montgomery Award, Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2016
Author: Lou Martin

Funk the Erotic

• Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Womens Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016
• Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016
• Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016
Author: L. H. Stallings

Manhood on the Line

• Book of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016
Author: Stephen Meyer

Sex Testing

• A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Author: Lindsay Parks Pieper

Splattered Ink

• Co-winner, Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Womens Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016
Author: Sarah E. Whitney

• Commended of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Winner of the White (Timothy) Award for Outstanding Musical Biography
Author:

• Commended of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Runner-up of the Utah Book Award
Author:

• Commended of the Mormon History Association Awards
Author:

• Winner of the Winans- (James A.) Wichelns (Herbert A) Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address -- (NCA)
Author:

• Commended of the Honor Book Award-- Children's Literature Association
Author:

• Winner of the TOTH (EMILY) AWARD FOR BEST SINGLE AUTHOR BOOK IN FEMINIST STUDIES
Author:

• Winner of the C. Calvin Smith Award, Southern Conference on African American Studies (SCAASI)
Author:

• Winner of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Winner of the IBMA Industry Awards
Author:

• Winner of the INTERNATIONAL LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION BOOK OF THE YEAR (ILHA)
Author:

• Winner of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Winner of the Montgomery (David) Book Award (OAH)
Author:

• Winner of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Winner of the TOTH (EMILY) AWARD FOR BEST SINGLE AUTHOR BOOK IN FEMINIST STUDIES
Author:

• Runner-up of the Lambda Literary Awards
Author:

• Winner of the Bray (Alan) Book Prize (MLA)
Author:

• Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize
Author:

• Winner of the Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author:

• Winner of the ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AWARDS
Author:

• Winner of the Missouri History Book Award
Author:

• Winner of the Diamond Anniversary Book Award -- (NCA)
Author:

• Winner of the Montgomery (David) Book Award (OAH)
Author:

• Commended of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards (ARSC)
Author:

• Winner of the Brett (Philip) Award (American Musicological Society)
Author:

• Commended of the Alan Merriam Prize - Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Author:

• Winner of the BONILLA (FRANK) BOOK AWARD
Author:

• Winner of the Best Book Award-Filipinx and Filipinx American Studies Section (AAAS)
Author:

• Commended of the DISABILITY HISTORY ASSOCIATION BOOK/ARTICLE AWARD
Author:

• Winner of the Nigerian Studies Association (NSA) Book Award
Author:

• Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards (ARSC)
Author:

• Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden National Translation Award
Author:

• Winner of the Ritter (Bonnie) Book Award in Feminist/Women Studies in Communication
Author:

• Winner of the FLECK (LUDWIK) PRIZE
Author:

• Winner of the Judith McCulloh Public Sector Award
Author: