Featured Award News
FOREWORD Indies Winners
2024 awards
Cut/Copy/Paste
ACLS Open Access Book Prize – finalist
Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood
American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
The Cactus Hunters
American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography – honorable mention
The Cactus Hunters
American Association of Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group – Honorable Mention
Eco Soma
American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award – honorable mention
Dancing Indigenous Worlds
American Society for Theatre Research Barnard Hewitt Award – finalist
Earthworks Rising
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Monograph
Allotment Stories
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures Carter Revard Legacy Award for Best Edited Collection
White Burgers, Black Cash
Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award
“Food in the Indian Ocean World: Mobility, Materiality, and Culture” in Verge 9.2
Association for the Study of Food and Society Belasco Prize for Scholarly Excellence
Masculinity in Transition
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
The Last Bookseller
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
White Burgers, Black Cash
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Book Award
Nonhuman Humanitarians
British International Studies Association Susan Strange Best Book Prize – shortlist
White Burgers, Black Cash
Business History Conference Hagley Prize – finalist
Queer Silence
Conference on College Composition and Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
The Cactus Hunters
Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of AAG CAPE Outstanding Book Award – honorable mention
In Visible Archives
Nominee: Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Sentimental Education
French-American Foundation Translation Prize – finalist
Nonhuman Humanitarians
International Studies Association Theory Section Best Book Award
The Needle and the Lens
Minnesota Book Awards General Nonfiction – finalist
Smoke on the Waterfront
Minnesota Book Awards General Nonfiction – finalist
In the Company of Grace
Minnesota Book Awards Memoir & Creative Nonfiction – finalist
Trauma Sponges
Minnesota Book Awards Memoir & Creative Nonfiction – finalist
Making the Carry
Minnesota Book Awards Emile Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Eastcliff
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians David Stanley Gebhard Award
Eastcliff
Society of Architectural Historians Minnesota Chapter David Stanley Gebhard Award
The Architecture of Disability
University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning On the Brinck Book Award
Plant Life
University of New Mexico School of Architecture & Planning On the Brinck Book Award
White Burgers, Black Cash
Urban Affairs Association Best Book in Urban Affairs Award
2023 awards
Meaningless Citizenship
American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award
The Common Camp
American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory Section First Book Award – honorable mention
People, Practice, Power
American Studies Association DH Caucus Book Prize
Pipeline Populism
Association of American Geographers Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group Outstanding Book Award
Building on Borrowed Time
Association for Asian Studies Harry J. Benda Prize – honorable mention
White Burgers, Black Cash
Association for Humanist Sociology Betty & Alfred McClung Lee Book Award
Written by the Body
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies
Angry Planet
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Ecocritical Book Award – Finalist
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Ecocritical Book Award – Finalist
On Posthuman War
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
Red and Black
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
The Ski Jumpers
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show selection
A Voice but No Power
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
Afro-Sweden
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
Dancing Indigenous Worlds
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
Side Affects
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
Take My Word for It
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
The Lichen Museum
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles 2023
Meaningless Citizenship
Council on Anthropology and Education Outstanding Book Award – Honorable Mention
Eco Soma
Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno Prize – shortlist
This Contested Land
Foreword Indies – Gold winner, Ecology and Environment category
Making Love With the Land
Foreword Indies – Silver winner, Essays category
Side Affects
Foreword Indies – Finalist
After Effects
Foreword Indies – Finalist
The Ski Jumpers
Heartland Booksellers Award – Finalist
The Sky Watched
Heartland Booksellers Award – winner, poetry category
One Winter Up North
Heartland Booksellers Award – Finalist
The Unteachables
History of Education Society Outstanding Book Award – Finalist
Winter’s Children
International Skiing History Association John Fry Award of Excellence
Winter’s Children
International Skiing History Association Skade Book Award
The Global Shelter Imaginary
International Studies Association International Political Sociology Book Award – honorable mention
Anime’s Identity
Japanese Society of Animation Studies Award
Native Agency
Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award
Arte Programmata
Media Ecology Association Awards – finalist
Technics Improvised
Media Ecology Association Awards – finalist
Cut/Copy/Paste
Media Ecology Association Awards – finalist
Not the Camilla We Knew
Midwest Independent Publishers Association (MIPA) – Midwest Book Awards
A Natural Curiosity
Minnesota Book Award – finalist
The Steger Homestead Kitchen
Minnesota Book Award – finalist
Seven Aunts
Minnesota Book Award
The Silence of the Miskito Prince
Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize
Exceptionally Queer
Mormon History Association Best Book Award
Native Agency
NAISA Best Subsequent Book Prize – honorable mention
Eco Soma
National Dance Education Organization Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award – honorable mention
Seven Aunts
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards — winner
One Winter Up North
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards – honorable mention
Lesbian Death
Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender Outstanding Book Award
Making Love with the Land
PEN Open Book Award – longlist
Angry Planet
Science Fiction Research Association Best First Book Award – honorable mention
Reconstructing the Garrick
Society of Architectural Historians – Antoinette Forrester Downing Award
The Three Sustainabilities
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize – honorable mention
Sensory Futures
Society for Social Studies of Science Rachel Carson Prize
Cut/Copy/Paste
Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award – Honorable Mention
Earthworks Rising
Western Literature Association Thomas J. Lyon Award for Western American Literary and Cultural Studies
Settling Nature
Western Political Science Association Clay Morgan Prize for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory
2022 awards
Sounds from the Other Side
American Musicological Society – LGBTQ Study Group – Philip Brett Award
The Horror of Police
American Society of Criminology – Critical Criminology and Social Justice Book Award
The Radical Bookstore
Association of American Geographers – Meridian Book Award – Honorable Mention
Scale Theory
Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine – ARSTM Book Award – Finalist
Training for Catastrophe
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present – ASAP Book Prize
Black Food Matters
Association for the Study of Food and Society – ASFS Book Award (Edited Collection)
Infrastructures of Apocalpyse
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – ASLE Ecocritical Book Award – Finalist
Solo Viola
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show – Selection
Watershed
AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show – Selection
Loon Lessons
CHOICE – Outstanding Academic Title
Opioid Reckoning
CHOICE – Outstanding Academic Title
Sickening
CHOICE – Outstanding Academic Title
On Posthuman War
Communication Arts – Typography Competition Award of Excellence
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal
Communication Arts – Typography Competition Award of Excellence – finalist
Begin with a Bee
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list)
Yang Warriors
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list)
The Digital is Kid Stuff
Cultural Studies Association – First Book Prize
Reconstructing the Garrick
Deutsches Architekturmuseum – DAM Book Award – shortlist
Noopiming
Dublin City Council – Dublin Literary Award – Shortlist
Building on Borrowed Time
EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize
Noopiming
Foreword Reviews – INDIES Book of the Year Awards – Finalist
Solo Viola
Foreword Reviews – INDIES Book of the Year Awards – Finalist
Settler Colonial City
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library – Hognander Minnesota History Award
Watershed
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library – Minnesota Book Award (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction)
Opioid Reckoning
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library – Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction – Finalist
Reconstructing the Garrick
Furthermore – Alice Award
Sounds from the Other Side
International Association for the Study of Popular Music–US Branch – Woody Guthrie Award
The Perennial Kitchen
International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Awards – Food Issues & Matters – Finalist
Begin with a Bee
John Burroughs Association – Riverby Award
The Filing Cabinet
Media Ecology Association Awards – Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology
Gichigami Hearts
Heartland Booksellers Awards – Heartland Booksellers Award, Nonfiction
Blue Guitar Highway
Minnesota Blues Society – Blues Hall of Fame
Settler Colonial City
Minnesota Book Awards – Hognander History Award
Elizabeth Scheu Close
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Book Award
Black Pulp
Modernist Studies Association – Book Prize – finalist
The Black Reproductive
Museum of African American History – MAAH Stone Book Award – Shortlist
Remembering Our Intimacies
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association – NAISA Best First Book Prize
Begin with a Bee
The Nature Generation – Green Earth Book Award – Picture Book Honor
Gichigami Hearts
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards – honorable mention, nonfiction category (2020-2021 awards cycle)
A Private Wilderness
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards – honorable mention, memoir category (2020-2021 awards cycle)
Visibility Interrupted
Organization for the Study of Language, Communication, and Gender – OSCLG Outstanding Book Award
Louis Sullivan’s Idea
Pattis Family Foundation – Chicago Book Award – Shortlist
Visibility Interrupted
Popular Culture Association – John Leo and Dana Heller Award for LGBTQ Studies – Honorable Mention
The Computer’s Voice
Popular Culture Association – Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies
Letters from Tove
Society of Authors – Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation
Deep Mediations
Society for Cinema and Media Studies – Best Edited Collection Award
Saving Animals
Society for Cultural Anthropology – Gregory Bateson Book Prize
Hungry Listening
Society for Ethnomusicology – Ruth Stone Award – Honorable Mention
The Editor Function
Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing – SHARP DeLong Book History Prize – Shortlist
Hungry Listening
Society for Music Theory – Wallace Berry Award
Yang Warriors
The Society of Midland Authors – Children’s Reading Round Table Children’s Nonfiction Award – honoree
2021 awards
Biko’s Ghost
African and African-American Studies Center – UC San Diego – Teshome H. Gabriel Award in Africana Studies
The Eloquent Screen
American Comparative Literature Association – René Wellek Prize
Blackness in Morocco
American Institute for Maghrib Studies – Carl J. Brown Book Prize – Honorable Mention
Black Boys Apart
American Sociological Association – Sex and Gender Section – Distinguished Book Award
Decarcerating Disability
American Studies Association – Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize – finalist mention
The Death of Asylum
Association of American Geographers – AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography
Border Thinking
Association for Humanistic Sociology – Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award – honorable mention
Infrastructures of Apocalypse
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present – ASAP Book Award – shortlist
The Speculative City
CAA – Charles Rufus Morey Book Award – finalist
Hungry Listening
Canadian Association for Theatre Research – Ann Saddlemyer Award
Begin with a Bee
Chicago Public Library – Best Informational Books for Younger Readers
Playing with the Book
Children’s Literature Association – Book Award
How the Working Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021
Scammer’s Yard
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021
The Invention of Public Space
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021
One Summer Up North
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list)
The Range Eternal
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list)
The Shared Room
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list)
Wolf Island
Foreword INDIES Award – Nature
Invention of Public Space
Foundation for Landscape Studies – John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
Capture
French Association of American Studies – Research Award
The Politics of Annihilation
International Studies Association – Yale H. Ferguson Book Award – honorable mention
Ends of Cinema
Kraszna-Krausz Foundation – Kraszna-Kraus Moving Image Awards – longlist
Hungry Listening
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award
The Responsive Environment
Media Ecology Association – Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction
Wolf Island
Michigan Notable Books Award
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify
Minnesota Book Award – Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Minnesota’s Geologist
Minnesota Book Award – Minnesota Nonfiction
Johnny’s Pheasant
Minnesota Youth Reading Awards (MYRA) – Star of the North Picture Book Award – nominee
Happiness by Design
Modernist Studies Association – MSA Book Award – shortlist
Death of Things
Modernist Studies Association – MSA First Book Award – honorable mention
Hungry Listening
NAISA – Best First Book Award
Standing with Standing Rock
National Council on Public History – Book Award – honorable mention
Documents of Doubt
Photography Network Book Prize
Trans Care
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
Hungry Listening
Royal Musical Association – RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize
Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
Seminary Co-op – Notable Books of 2021
The Decorated Tenement
Society of Architectural Historians – Spiro Kostof Book Award
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify
Society of Midland Authors – Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir – Honoree
Shaving the Beasts
Society for Humanistic Anthropology – Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing – honorable mention
Scammer’s Yard
Society for the Study of Social Problems – Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award
Black Food Matters
Society for the Study of Social Problems – Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award – honorable mention
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
University of Mary Washington Center – Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize
How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
Vernacular Architecture Forum – Abbott Lowell Cummings Award
The Streel
Women Writing the West – WILLA Awards – finalist
The Monster Theory Reader
World Fantasy Award – Special Award: Professional – finalist
2020 awards
Border Thinking
American Anthropological Association – Council on Anthropology and Education – Outstanding Book Award
The Lost Brothers
American Society of Journalists and Authors Book Awards – Biography/History
Men in Place
American Sociological Association – Sociology of Sex and Gender Section – Distinguished Book Award
Fair Trade Rebels
Association of American Geographers – Political Geography Specialty Group – Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award
Reimagining Livelihoods
Association of American Geographers – Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group – Outstanding Publication Award
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Association of American Publishers – PROSE Award – Best New Journal in the Humanities
Suspect Communities
Association for Humanist Sociology — Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award — Honorable mention
The Politics of Annihilation
British International Studies Association – L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize – Shortlist
Cyberwar and Revolution
Canadian Communications Association – Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize
Histories of the Transgender Child
Children’s Literature Association – Book Award
Breathtaking
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
Compulsory
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
Dialogues on the Human Ape
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
Living on Campus
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
Metaphysical Experiments
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
Outsider Theory
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
The ABC of It
Choice – Outstanding Academic Title
The Children of Lincoln
Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library – Hognander Minnesota History Award
Security in the Bubble
German Society of Interdisciplinary Criminology (GiwK) – Fritz Sack Award for Outstanding Publication
The Decorated Tenement
International Society of Place, Landscape and Material Culture – Fred B. Kniffen Award
Avant-Garde in the Cornfields
International Society of Place, Landscape and Material Culture – Allen G. Noble Award for Best Edited Publication
Politics of Annihilation
International Studies Assiociation – International Political Sociology Section Best Book Award – Shortlist
Translated Nation
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award
Graphic Assembly
Media Ecology Association – Book Awards – Finalist
The Anime Ecology
Media Ecology Association – Book Awards – Finalist
DIA-LOGOS
Media Ecology Association – Book Awards – Finalist
Variations on Media Thinking
Media Ecology Association – Book Awards – Finalist
Circulating Queerness
Melville Society – Hennig Cohen Prize
Wolf Island
Michigan Notable Books list
Walking the Old Road
Midwestern History Association – Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History
Metropolitan Dreams
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Award
Translated Nation
Modern Language Association – MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Zoological Surrealism
Modernist Studies Association – Best First Book Award – Shortlist
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify
National Reading Group Month – Great Group Reads 2020
In the Night of Memory
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Fiction
Jack and the Ghost
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Fiction – Honorable mention
The Lost Forest
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Children’s Literature – Honorable mention
Walking the Old Road
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Nonfiction
Information Fantasies
Science Fiction Research Association – Book Award
Alchemy of Meth
Society for Cultural Anthropology – Gregory Bateson Book Award – Honorable mention
The Alchemy of Meth
Society for Humanistic Anthropology – Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing – Honorable mention
In the Night of Memory
Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) – U.P. Notable Book Award
Johnny’s Pheasant
UW–Madison – Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – Charlotte Zolotow Award
2019 awards
Postcolonial Automobility
African Literature Association – Best First Book
The River Is In Us
American Anthropological Association – Julian Steward Award
Youth Media Matters
American Educational Studies Association – Critics’ Choice Book Awards
Wild Child
American Psychoanalytic Association – Courage To Dream Prize
Black Boys Apart
American Sociological Association – Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section – Oliver Cromwell Cox Award – Co-winner
Black Boys Apart
American Sociological Association – Section on the Sociology of Education – Pierre Bourdieu Award
Writing Human Rights
Association for Asian American Studies – Outstanding Achievement in Humanities and Cultural Studies: Literature
Archaeologies of Touch
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present – Book Prize – Shortlist
Internet Daemons
Canadian Communication Association – 2019 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Award
Who Writes for Black Children?
Children’s Literature Association – Best Edited Collection Award
Who Writes for Black Children?
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Literature of Questions
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Veer Ecology
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
After Extinction
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Undocumented Everyday
College Art Association – Frank Jewett Mather Award
Lemon Jail
Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award in Nonfiction Prose
The Right to Be Cold
Foreword INDIES Award – Autobiography & Memoir
California Mission Landscapes
Historical Society of Southern California – Norman Neuerburg Award
Cyberwar and Revolution
International Studies Association – Science, Technology, and Art in International Relations (STAIR) Book Prize
Histories of the Transgender Child
Lambda Literary Foundation – Transgender Nonfiction
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
Media Ecology Association – Dorothy Lee Award
The Eye of War
Media Ecology Association – Lewis Mumford Award
Hush Hush, Forest
Midwest Booksellers Choice Award – Children’s Picture Book
The Crusade for Forgotten Souls
Midwestern History Association – Hamlin Garland Award
The Crusade for Forgotten Souls
Minnesota Book Award – Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Laurentian Divide
Minnesota Book Award – Award for Novel & Short Story
Outsider Theory
Modern Language Association – James Russell Lowell Prize
The Lost Forest
National Outdoor Book Awards – Children’s Category – Honorable Mention
Laurentian Divide
National Reading Group Month – Great Group Reads 2019 Selection
Laurentian Divide
Northeast Minnesota Book Award – Fiction
Hush Hush, Forest
Northeast Minnesota Book Award – Children’s Literature
Iron and Water
Northeast Minnesota Book Award – Memoir
Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais
Northeast Minnesota Book Award – Nonfiction
Circulating Queerness, Gay, Inc., Wild Mares
Over the Rainbow Book List
Histories of the Transgender Child
Popular Culture Association – John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies
Border Country
Publishing Professionals Network – Reference and Scholarly Book Award – Honorable Mention
Herlands
Society for the Anthropology of North America – Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharf Memorial Prize
Historic Capital
Society for Architectural Historians – Antoinette Forrester Downing Award
Seizing Jerusalem
Society for Architectural Historians – Spiro Kostof Award
California Mission Landscapes
Society for Architectural Historians – Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Award
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
Society for Cinema and Media Studies – Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award
Playing With Feelings
Society for Cinema and Media Studies – Best First Book
Archaeologies of Touch
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts – Michelle Kendrick Memorial Book Prize – Honorable Mention
Laurentian Divide
Society for Midland Authors – Annual Literary Award
2018 awards
Inheriting Possibility
American Educational Research Association – Outstanding Book Award
Black on Both Sides
American Historical Association – John Boswell Prize
Black on Both Sides
American Library Association – Stonewall Book Award – Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book
So Famous and So Gay
American Library Association – Over the Rainbow List
Queer Game Studies
American Library Association – Over the Rainbow List
Grounded Authority
American Political Science Association – Interpretive Methodologies and Methods’ Charles Taylor Book Award – Honorable Mention
The Microbial State
American Political Science Association – Interpretive Methodologies and Methods’ Charles Taylor Book Award – Honorable Mention
Seizing Jerusalem
Association for Israel Studies – Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israeli Studies
Grounded Authority
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize – Honorable Mention
Got to Be Something Here
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence – Certificate of Merit for Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Soul, or R&B
Once in a Blue Moon Lodge
Association of University Presses – Award of Merit, Jackets and Covers
Curated Decay
Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize
Black on Both Sides
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies – Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies
The Book of the Dead
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture – Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
Foreword INDIES Editor’s Choice Prize Winner
Seizing Jerusalem
Foundation for Landscape Studies – John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
Fresh from the Garden
Garden Writers of America – Gold Award
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards – US Winner, Culinary Heritage
Savory Sweet
Gourmand World Cookbook Awards – US Winner, Pastry
Creekfinding
Green Earth Book Award
Creekfinding
Green Prize for Sustainable Literature
Flames of Discontent
Hognander Minnesota History Award
Judith F. Baca
Independent Publisher Book Awards – Silver Medal for Adult Multicultural Non-Fiction
Beautiful Wasteland
Institute for Humanities Research – IHR Transdisciplinary Book Award
Judith F. Baca
International Latino Book Awards – Best Latino Focused Book Design
Judith F. Baca
International Latino Book Awards – Best Arts Book – 2nd Place
Judith F. Baca
International Latino Book Awards – Best Latino Themed Book – 2nd Place
The Eye of War
International Studies Association – Science Technology and Art in International Relations (STAIR) Book Prize
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
James Beard Foundation Book Awards – Best American Cookbook
Creekfinding
John Burroughs Association – Riverby Award
The River Is In Us
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award
As We Have Always Done
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award – Honorable Mention
Black on Both Sides
Lambda Literary Award – Transgender Nonfiction
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
Midwest Booksellers Choice Award – Nonfiction
The Clue in the Trees
Midwest Booksellers Choice Award – YA & Middle Grade
One North Star
Midwest Independent Booksellers Association – Best Children’s Picture Book
Onigamiising
Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Got to Be Something Here
Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Ford Century in Minnesota
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Award
Minnesota Modern
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Award
The World and All the Things Upon It
Modern Language Association – Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Black on Both Sides
Modern Language Association – William Sanders Scarborough Prize
As We Have Always Done
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association – Best Subsequent Book
The River Is in Us
Native American Literature Symposium – Beatrice Medicine Award
Onigamiising
Native American Literature Symposium – Electa Quinney Award
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen
Nautilus Book Awards – Silver Award in Food, Cooking, & Healthy Eating Category
Onigamiising
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Memoir
Dead Man’s Rapids (Children’s Literature), Deep Woods, Wild Waters (Memoir), Flames of Discontent (Nonfiction)
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Honorable Mention
Black on Both Sides
Organization of American Historians – Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and/or Gender History – Honorable Mention
Canoes
Outdoor Writers Association of America – Excellence in Craft – 3rd place
Transhumanism
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize
The Construction of Equality
Margaret Mead Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology
Life Support
Society for Social Studies of Science – Rachel Carson Prize
Breathing Race into the Machine
Society for Social Studies of Science – Ludwik Fleck Prize
California Mission Landscapes
Vernacular Architecture Forum – Abbott Lowell Cummings Award
2017 awards
Stone
American Comparative Literature Association – René Wellek Prize for Best Book
For the Children?
American Educational Studies Association – Critics’ Choice Book Award Winner
Juárez Girls Rising
American Educational Studies Association – Critics’ Choice Book Award Winner
The World and All the Things Upon It
American Historical Association – Albert J. Beveridge Award
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
American Political Science Association – Foundations of Political Thought First Book Award
Desis Divided
American Sociological Association – Best Book on Asian America
Inter/Nationalism
Arab American Book Awards – Non-Fiction Category
A Curriculum of Fear
Association of American Geographers – Globe Book Award
A Shadow over Palestine
Association for Asian American Studies – Award for Best Book in Humanities
Death beyond Disavowal
Association for Asian American Studies – Award for Humanities and Cultural Studies (Multidisciplinary)
Last Project Standing
Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize
Early Blues
Association for Recorded Sound Collections – Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B – Certificate of Merit
Everybody’s Heard About the Bird
Association for Recorded Sound Collections – Best Research in Recorded Rock Music – Certificate of Merit
Grounded Authority
Canadian Studies Network – Best Book In Canadian Studies
American by Paper
Conference on College Composition and Communication – Outstanding Book Award – Honorable Mention
California Mission Landscapes
Foundation for Landscape Studies – John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
Holidays in the Danger Zone
International Studies Association – International Political Sociology Book Award
One North Star
John Burroughs Association – Riverby Award
Roots of Our Renewal
Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award – Honorable Mention
The Book of the Dead
Modern Language Association – Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work
The World and All the Things Upon It
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association – Best Subsequent Book
One North Star
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Children’s Literature
Homemade
Northeastern Minnesota Book Award – Memoir
The Age of Lovecraft
Popular Culture Association – Best Edited Volume Award
Like Clockwork
Popular Culture Association – Best Edited Volume Award
The Perversity of Things
Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize – Honorable Mention
The Child to Come
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program Book Award – Honorable Mention
Human Programming
Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Program Book Award – Honorable Mention
Of Sheep, Oranges and Yeast
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts – Kendrick Prize
Our Gang
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association – Peter C. Rollins Book Award
The World and All the Things Upon It
Western History Association – John C. Ewers Award
Border Walls Gone Green
Western Political Science Association – Clay Morgan Award for Best book in Environmental Political Theory – Honorable Mention
2016 awards
Leverage of the Weak
Academia Sinica – Scholarly Monograph Award
The Beginning and End of Rape
American Political Science Association – Victoria Schuck Award
Made to Hear
American Sociological Association – Sociology of Disability Award – Honorable Mention
Split Screen Korea
Association for Asian Studies – Northeast Asia Council’s James B. Palais Book Prize
Early Blues
Association for Recorded Sound Collections – Best Historical Research in Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B – Certificate of Merit
Everybody’s Heard about the Bird
Association for Recorded Sound Collections – Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock Music – Certificate of Merit
The Poetics of Information Overload
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize – Honorable Mention
Red Skin, White Masks
Canadian Political Science Association – C.B. Macpherson Award
Red Skin, White Masks
Caribbean Philosophical Association – Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book
Civil Rights Childhood
Children’s Literature Association 2016 Book Award
Architectural Agents, Fiery Cinema, A Geology of Media, Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century
Choice – Outstanding Academic Titles – Top 25 Books for 2015
NAIS
Council of Editors of Learned Journals – Best New Journal
Degrees of Freedom
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library – Hognander Minnesota History Award
Gaming at the Edge
International Communication Association – Popular Communication Division’s Outstanding Book
The Social Project
International Planning History Society – Best Book in European Planning History
The Deadly Life of Logistics
International Political Sociology Book Award
Nuclear Desire
International Political Sociology Book Award – Honorable Mention
Barnstorming the Prairies
International Society for Landscape Place, and Material Culture – Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
Making Things International 1
International Studies Association – Theory Section Book Award
The Beginning and End of Rape
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award
Roots of Our Renewal
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award – Honorable Mention
Early Blues
Living Blues –Blues Book of the Year
Digital Shift
Media Ecology Association – Susanne K. Langer Award
Portage
Midwest Book Awards – Nature
Enchantment Lake
Midwest Book Awards – Young Adult Fiction
Isabelle Day Refuses to Die of a Broken Heart
Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards
Barnstorming the Prairies
Midwestern History Association Book Award
Taconite Dreams
Midwestern History Association – Hamlin Garland Award for Popular History
Water and What We Know
Minnesota Book Award – Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Minnesota Modern
Minnesota Book Award – Minnesota
Saint John’s Abbey Church
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Award
John Howe, Architect
Minnesota Society of Architectural Historians – David Stanley Gebhard Award – Honorable Mention
Voices of Fire
Modern Language Association – Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages – Honorable Mention
Building Zion
Mormon History Association – Best Book – Honorable Mention
Portage
National Outdoor Book Award – Honorable Mention
Wake Up, Island
National Outdoor Book Award – Honorable Mention
The Beginning and End of Rape
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association – Best First Book
The White Possessive
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association – Best Subsequent Book
We Know How This Ends
Nautilus Book Awards – Silver Award Winner
Taconite Dreams
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards – Nonfiction
North Shore
Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards – Nonfiction – Honorable Mention
Making Suburbia
Popular Culture/American Culture Association – Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection – Honorable Mention
Designing the Creative Child
Society of Architectural Historians – Alice Davis Hitchcock Award
The Social Project
Society of Architectural Historians – Spiro Kostof Award
Red Skin, White Masks
Studies in Political Economy Book Prize
Building Zion
Vernacular Architecture Forum – Abbot Lowell Cummings Prize
2015 awards
Sexuality in School
American Educational Research Association – Outstanding Book Award (Curriculum)
Plant a Pocket of Prairie
American Museum of Natural History – John Burroughs Riverby Award for Young Readers
Fighting for Peace
American Sociological Association – Section on Peace, War & Social Confilct
Academic Profiling
Association for Asian American Studies – Best Book in Social Science Category
Under Bright Lights
Association for Queer Anthropology – Ruth Benedict Book Prize – Honorable Mention
Luis Cruz Azaceta
International Latino Book Awards – Best Arts Book (English)
Civil Rights Childhood
International Research Society for Children’s Literature – Honor Book Award
Building Zion
International Society for Landscape Place, and Material Culture – Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
The Deadly Life of Logistics
International Studies Association – Book Award of the International Political Sociology Section
Reinventing Citizenship
Japanese Association for American Studies – Shimizu Hiroshi Award
The Lure of the North Woods
Midwestern History Association – Jon Gjerde Prize
The Essential Ellen Willis
National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism
The Price of Thirst
Next Generation Indie Book Awards – Current Events/Social Change
Zenith City
Northeast Minnestoa Book Awards – Memoir and Creative Nonfiction – Honorable Mention
The Lure of the North Woods
Organization of American Historians – Midwestern History Prize
Plant a Pocket of Prairie
Sigurd Olson – Nature Writing Award – Honorable Mention
Building Zion
Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture – Fred B. Kniffen Book Award
The Social Project
Vernacular Architecture Forum – Abbot Lowell Cummings Prize
The Queerness of Native American Literature
Western Literature Association – Thomas J. Lyon Book Award
The Road Back to Sweetgrass
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers – 2015 Fiction Award