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2023 Award Winners
Harold Taylor and Sarah Lawrence College: A Life of Social and Educational Activism
Edited by Craig Kridel
• Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Inside the Green Lobby: The Fight to Save the Adirondack Park
Bernard Melewski
• Finalist in the 2023 National Indie Excellence® Awards in the Political Category
Black Lives Matter in US Schools: Race, Education, and Resistance
Edited by Boni Wozolek
• Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award presented by Division B of the American Educational Research Association
Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India
Shruti Chaudhry
• Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by the British Association for South Asian Studies
Sappho's Legacy: Convivial Economics on a Greek Isle
Marina Karides
• Winner of the 2023 Gourmand Cookbook Award for Greece in the Women Category
2022 Award Winners
Ways of the Hand: A Photographer's Memoir
Bruce Jackson
• Honorable Mention, for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Photography Category
Sharkey: When Sea Lions Were Stars of Show Business (1907-1958)
Gary Bohan Jr.
• Gold Winner for the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Performing Arts & Music Category
Orienting Italy: China through the Lens of Italian Filmmakers
Mary Ann McDonald Carolan
• Winner of the 2022 Book Award for Performance and Visual Culture presented by the American Association of Teachers of Italian
Joan Didion: Substance and Style
Kathleen M. Vandenberg
• 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Encountering the Impossible: The Fantastic in Hollywood Fantasy Cinema
Alexander Sergeant
• 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
• Shortlisted for the 2022 Best First Monograph Award presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies
Black Women and Public Health: Strategies to Name, Locate, and Change Systems of Power
Edited by Stephanie Y. Evans, Sarita K. Davis, Leslie R. Hinkson, and Deanna J. Wathington
• 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism
Richard H. Jones
• 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Michael Gold: The People's Writer
Patrick Chura
• Winner of the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize presented by the Literary Encyclopedia
• Winner of the 2022 Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award presented by the Peace Corps Worldwide
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
Jason M. Gibson
• Winner of the 2022 W.K. Hancock Prize presented by the Australian Historical Association
Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India
Priti Joshi
• Shortlisted for the 2022 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Qorbanot: Offerings
Poems by Alisha Kaplan
Art by Tobi Aaron Kahn
• Winner of the 2022 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award presented by the League of Canadian Poets
Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880–1940
Peter Zarrow
• Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute
One over Many: The Unitary Pluralism of Plato's World
Necip Fikri Alican
• Finalist for the 2022 PROSE Award in the Philosophy category presented by the Association of American Publishers
2021 Award Winners
Higher Education for Democracy: The Role of the University in Civil Society
William G. Tierney
• Bronze Winner, 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category
Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India
Priti Joshi
• Winner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize presented by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Sisterlocking Discoarse: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy
Valerie Lee
• Finalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education Category
Flesh of My Flesh: Sexual Violence in Modern Hebrew Literature
Ilana Szobel
• Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library
Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection
Jason M. Gibson
• Winner of the 2021 Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award presented by the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA), a section of the American Anthropological Association
• Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Literary Awards in the Australian History Category presented by the Australian Prime Minister and Minister for the Arts
Walkable Cities: Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption
Carlos J. L. Balsas
• Gold Medalist, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Transportation (Auto/Aviation/Railroad) Category
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Ana-Maurine Lara
• Winner of the 2021 Bateson Book Prize presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America
Neil Thomas Proto
• Finalist for the 2021 The Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Autobiography/Biography Category presented by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group
Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Isabel Baca, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, and Susan Wolff Murphy, editors
• Winner of the 2021 Advancement of Knowledge Award presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication
Black Cultural Mythology
Christel N. Temple
• Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association
The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History
Diana S. Waite
• Winner of the 2021 Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians
Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater: Russian Policy Dramas: Russian Policy Dramas
Elena Aydarova
• Winner of the 2021 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times
Charles Sanft
• Honorable Mention, 2021 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize presented by the Association for Asian Studies
2020 Award Winners
Charlotte Brontë at the Anthropocene
Shawna Ross
• Honorable mention, 2020 Sonya Rudikoff Award presented by the Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Thinking Faith after Christianity: A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka's Phenomenological Philosophy
Martin Koci
• Winner of the 2020 Emerging Scholar's Theological Book Prize presented by the European Society for Catholic Theology
Fearless: A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America
Neil Thomas Proto
• Bronze Winner, 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Biography Category
Walkable Cities: Revitalization, Vibrancy, and Sustainable Consumption
Carlos J. L. Balsas
• Co-Winner of the 2020 Global Division Outstanding Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Andrea Charise
• Shortlisted for the 2020 BSLS Book Prize presented by the British Society for Literature and Science
Restless Spirits: Plays
William S. Yellow Robe Jr.
Edited by Jace Weaver
• Finalist for the 2020 ForeWord INDIE Book of the Year in the Multicultural Adult Fiction Category
Teacher Education Reform as Political Theater: Russian Policy Dramas
Elena Aydarova
• 2020 Critics Choice Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
• Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Council on Anthropology on Education
Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater
Ruthie Abeliovich
• Finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the category of Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual presented by the Association for Jewish Studies
African Americans and the First Amendment: The Case for Liberty and Equality
Timothy C. Shiell
• 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Leo Strauss and the Theopolitics of Culture
Philipp von Wussow
• 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Postnormal Conservation: Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance
Katja Grötzner Neves
• 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Urban Migrants In Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society
Susanne Klien
• 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
The Architecture of Downtown Troy: An Illustrated History
Diana S. Waite
• 2020 Excellence in Historic Preservation Award presented by the Preservation League of New York State
Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times
Charles Sanft
• 2020 James Henry Breasted Prize in Ancient History presented by the American Historical Association
Waste Not: A Jewish Environmental Ethic
Tanhum S. Yoreh
• 2020 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the category of Jewish Thought and Culture
Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty
Ana-Maurine Lara
• 2020 Ruth Benedict Prize presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology
Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, editor
• Silver Medalist, 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion (Eastern/Western) Category
The Beauty of Detours: A Batesonian Philosophy of Technology
Yoni Van Den Eede
• 2020 S.I. Hayakawa Book Prize presented by The Institute of General Semantics
• 2020 Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form presented by the Media Ecology Association
Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890−1910
Joseph M. Pierce
• 2020 Best Book in the Nineteenth Century Award presented by the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Another White Man's Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of white Racial Empire
Tommy J. Curry
• 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought presented by the Josiah Royce Society
Approaching Hegel’s Logic, Obliquely: Melville, Molière, Beckett
Angelica Nuzzo
• 2020 Hegelpd-Prize presented by the University of Padova Research Group
Childhood beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis
Lisa Farley
• 2020 Outstanding Book Award presented by Division B (Curriculum Studies) of the American Educational Research Association
You Who Enter Here
Erika T. Wurth
• 2020 Colorado Book Award in the Literary Fiction category presented by the Colorado Center for the Book
• 2020 In the Margins Top Ten and Fiction Recommendation
An Archive of the Catastrophe: The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah
Jennifer Cazenave
• Honorable Mention, 2020 Best First Book Award presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2019 Award Winners
You Who Enter Here
Erika T. Wurth
• Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Multicultural Fiction category
Trans People in Higher Education
Genny Beemyn, editor
• Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBTQ category
Everything Worthy of Observation: The 1826 New York State Travel Journal of Alexander Stewart Scott
Paul G. Schneider, Jr., editor
• Finalist of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
The First Zionist Congress: An Annotated Translation of the Proceedings
Michael J. Reimer
• Finalist for the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader
Eric J. Sundquist
• Finalist for the 2019 National Jewish Book Award in the Anthologies and Collections Category presented by the Jewish Book Council
Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Debarati Sen
• Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist Anthropology
Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies
Steven Alvarez
• Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community Writing
Understanding the Analects of Confucius: A New Translation of Lunyu with Annotations
Peimin Ni
• Winner of the 2019 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature presented by the Modern Language Association
Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Crisis, and the Urban Imagination
Nathan Holmes
• 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Troubled Memories: Iconic Mexican Women and the Traps of Representation
Oswaldo Estrada
• 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Malleable Māra: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil
Michael D. Nichols
• 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel
Hila Amit
• Winner of the 2019 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award
Rule, Britannia!: The Biopic and British National Identity
Homer B. Pettey and R. Barton Palmer, editors
• Winner of the 2019 SAMLA Studies Book Award for Edited Collections presented by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Childhood beyond Pathology: A Psychoanalytic Study of Development and Diagnosis
Lisa Farley
• Winner of the 2019 Critics' Choice Book Award presented by the American Educational Studies Association
The New Welfare Consensus: Ideological, Political, and Social Origins
Darren Barany
• Winner of the 2019 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award presented by the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association
Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age
Laura Gray-Rosendale, editor
• Silver Medalist, 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Education (Commentary/Theory) category
2018 Award Winners
Years I Walked at Your Side: Selected Poems
Mordechai Geldman; Translated by Tsipi Keller
• Finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Poetry presented by the Jewish Book Council
Finding True North: A History of One Small Corner of the Adirondacks
Fran Yardley
• Silver Winner, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category
Because We Are Human: Contesting US Support for Gender and Sexuality Human Rights Abroad
Cynthia Burack
• Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the LGBT category
On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language
Ilan Stavans
• Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Essay category
Writing in Witness: A Holocaust Reader
Eric J. Sundquist, editor
• Silver Winner, 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies category
Teaching Politics in Secondary Education: Engaging with Contentious Issues
Wayne Journell
• 2018 Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award presented by the National Council for the Social Studies
Essays on the Foundations of Ethics
C. I. Lewis; Edited by John Lange
• 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
México's Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women
B. Christine Arce
• Winner of the 2018 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize presented by the Modern Language Association
• Honorable Mention, 2018 Elli Kongas-Maranda Professional Award presented by the Women's Studies Section of the American Folklore Society
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture
Todd LeVasseur
• Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Religion Category
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva
Translated by Vladimir G. Marinich
• Bronze Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the World History Category
The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote
Brooke Kroeger
• Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category
• Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College
Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School
Robert A. Slayton
• Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast – Best Regional Non-Fiction Category
The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture
Bonnie J. Morris
• A 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library Association
A Pedagogy of Anticapitalist Antiracism: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Resistance in Education
Zachary A. Casey
• Winner of the 2018 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning: A Philosophical Interpretation
Geir Sigurðsson
• Honorable Mention, 2018 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
Debarati Sen
• Winner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies Association
• Winner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women’s Studies Association
Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on "Being Catholic the Tamil Way"
Reid B. Locklin, editor
• Finalist for the 2018 Best Book in Hindu-Christian Studies presented by the Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers' Politics in India
Manjusha Nair
• Honorable Mention, 2018 Global Division Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
2017 Award Winners
Hopes and Expectations: The Origins of the Black Middle Class in Hartford
Barbara J. Beeching
• Winner of the 2017 Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. Award presented by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History
Satan and Apocalypse: And Other Essays in Political Theology
Thomas J. J. Altizer
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination
David N. Stamos
• Silver Medalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category
Invisible Hosts: Performing the Nineteenth-Century Spirit Medium's Autobiography
Elizabeth Schleber Lowry
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Sabina Spielrein: The Woman and the Myth
Angela M. Sells
• Gold Medalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Psychology category
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife
Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva; Translated by Vladimir G. Marinich
• Gold Medalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture
Todd LeVasseur
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category
Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dogen in an Age of Ecological Crisis
Jason M. Wirth
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category
Alan Watts - In the Academy: Essays and Lectures
Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice, editors
• Gold Medalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Philosophy category
Flash Points: Lessons Learned and Not Learned in Malawi, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan
Jade Wu
• Honorable Mention, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Political Science category
Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School
Robert A. Slayton
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category
• Silver Medalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History category
The Adirondack Architecture Guide, Southern-Central Region
Janet A. Null
• Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category
New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture
Anthony W. Robins
• 2017-2018 New York City Book Awards presented by The New York Society Library
Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation
Wendy I. Zierler
• Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council
Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines
Laura Katz Olson
• GOLD Medalist, 2017 Living Now Book Award in the Caregiving category
Grain Dust Dreams
David W. Tarbet
• Winner of the 2017 Gertrude H. Dyke Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
• Winner of the 2017 Ernest R. Zimmerman First Publication Award presented by the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
Greg Bird
• Winner of the 2017 Symposium Book Award presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
Out for Blood: Essays on Menstruation and Resistance
Breanne Fahs
• Winner of the 2017 Distinguished Publication Award presented by the Association for Women in Psychology
Set in Stone: Creating and Commemorating a Hudson Valley Culture
Kenneth Shefsiek
• Winner of the 2017 Annual Hendricks Award presented by the New Netherland Institute
Seeking Alice: A Novel
Camilla Trinchieri
• Winner of the 2017 Italian American Studies Association Book Award
Between Stony Brook Harbor Tides: The Natural History of a Long Island Pocket Bay
R. Lawrence Swanson and Malcolm J. Bowman
• Winner of the 2017 Robert Cushman Memorial Award presented by the Three Village Historical Society
Tongue of Fire: Emma Goldman, Public Womanhood, and the Sex Question
Donna M. Kowal
• Winner of the 2017 Everett Lee Hunt Award presented by the Eastern Communication Association
• Silver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Women’s Issues Category
Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity
Aparna Mishra Tarc
• Winner of the 2017 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award
Fabricating an Educational Miracle: Compulsory Schooling Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China
Jinting Wu
• Winner of the 2017 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Recognition Award
• Winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society of Professors of Education
Between the Rule of Law and States of Emergency: The Fluid Jurisprudence of the Israeli Regime
Yoav Mehozay
• Honorable Mention, 2017 Yonathan Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Association for Israel Studies
Nearer to Never: Poems
R. S. Mason
• Finalist for the 2017 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize presented by Utica College
The Heroic Age of Diving: America’s Underwater Pioneers and the Great Wrecks of Lake Erie
Jerry Kuntz
• Silver Medalist, 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Sports/Fitness/Recreation Category