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Samuel Barber

• 2024 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research: Certificate of Merit in Recorded Classical Music
• 2024 The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in concert music
Author: Howard Pollack

Knowing Him by Heart

• Winner, Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award, 2024
Author: Edited by Fred Lee Hord and Matthew D. Norman

Danzon Days

• Winner, BFE Book Prize, British Forum for Ethnomusicology, 2024
Author: Hettie Malcomson

Mr. Associated Press

• Finalist, AEJMC Tankard Book Award, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2024
Author: Gene Allen

Shadow of the New Deal

• Winner, BEA Book Award, Broadcast Education Association, 2024
• Finalist, New Deal Book Award, Living New Deal, 2024
• Runner-Up, History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Book Award (AEJMC), 20244
• Runner Up, AJHA Book of the Year, American Journalism Historians Association, 2024
Author: Josh Shepperd

Strong Winds and Widow Makers

• Winner, Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize, Cornell Universitys ILR School and LAWCHA, 2023
• Co-winner, Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, 2023
• Finalist, Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Literary Arts, Oregon Book Awards, 2024
Author: Steven C. Beda

Queer Country

•A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022
• A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022
• A Variety Best Music Book of 2022
• A Boot Best Music Book of 2022
• A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022
• A Happy Magazine Best Music Book of 2022
• Certificate of Merit, Best Historical Research in Country, Folk, Roots or World Music. category, 2023 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, 2023
• Winner, Woody Guthrie First Book Award, International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch (IASPM-US), 2024
Author: Shana Goldin-Perschbacher

The Sexual Politics of Empire

• Winner, Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBTQ+ Studies, 2024
Author: Erin L. Durban

Care Activism

• Short-List, Donald Smiley Prize, 2024
Author: Ethel Tungohan

Harry Bridges

• Honorable Mention, ILHA Book of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2023
• Silver Medal, Regional 08, West Pacific Non-Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2024
Author: Robert W. Cherny

Prairie Up

• Honorable Mention, AHS Book Awards, American Horticultural Society, 2024
Author: Benjamin Vogt

Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins

• Co-winner, Russell P. Strange Book of the Year Award, Illinois State Historical Society, 2024
Author: Robert D. Sampson

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986

• Winner, The Pattis Family Foundation Chicago Book Award, The Newberry Library and The Pattis Family Foundation, 2024
Author: Thomas Leslie

Mean Girl Feminism

• Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author: Kim Hong Nguyen

Playful Protest

• Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author: Kristie Soares

Reparations and Reparatory Justice

• Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author: Edited by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, and V. P. Franklin

To Advance the Race

• Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles
Author: Linda M. Perkins

Beyond the Black Power Salute

• NASSH Book Award in Monographs
Author: Gregory J. Kaliss

African Art Reframed

• Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award
Author: Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn

Danzon Days

• RMA/Cambridge University Press Outstanding Monograph Book Prize
Author: Hettie Malcomson

Circle of Winners

• The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Book Award in concert music
Author: Denise Von Glahn

Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain

• Society for Ethnomusicology: Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize
Author: Edited by Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco, and Samuel Llano

Mongolian Sound Worlds

• Society for Ethnomusicology: Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize
Author: Edited by Jennifer C. Post, Sunmin Yoon, and Charlotte D'Evelyn

Restless Pilgrim

• The Evans Biography Award
Author: Reid L. Neilson and Scott D. Marianno

Mean Girl Feminism

• OSCLG Outstanding Book Award
Author: Kim Hong Nguyen

Hedged

• Winner, 2024 Frank Luther Mott/KTA Research Award
Author: Margot Susca

A David Montgomery Reader

• Honorable Mention, 2024 International Labor History Association Book-of-the-Year-Award
Author: David Montgomery

Public Scholarship in Communication Studies

• Winner, 2024 NCA: Applied Communication Division: Sue DeWine Distinguished Award for a Scholarly Book
Author: Edited by Thomas J Billard and Silvio Waisbord

The Testimony of Two Nations

• Finalist, 2024 Association for Mormon Letters Award in Criticism
Author: Michael Austin

Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement

• Finalist, 2024 Association for Mormon Letters Award in Criticism
Author: Edited by Deidre Nicole Green and Eric D. Huntsman