2021 Awards
Listed in alphabetical order according to award:
African and African-American Studies Center – UC San Diego – Teshome H. Gabriel Award in Africana Studies – Biko’s Ghost
American Comparative Literature Association – René Wellek Prize – The Eloquent Screen
American Institute for Maghrib Studies – Carl J. Brown Book Prize – Blackness in Morocco – Honorable Mention
American Sociological Association – Sex and Gender Section – Distinguished Book Award – Black Boys Apart
American Studies Association – Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize – Decarcerating Disability – finalist mention
Association of American Geographers – AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography – The Death of Asylum
Association for Humanistic Sociology - Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award - Border Thinking - honorable mention
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present - ASAP Book Award - Infrastructures of Apocalypse - shortlist
CAA - Charles Rufus Morey Book Award - The Speculative City - finalist
Canadian Association for Theatre Research – Ann Saddlemyer Award – Hungry Listening
Chicago Public Library – Best Informational Books for Younger Readers – Begin with a Bee
Children’s Literature Association – Book Award – Playing with the Book
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2021 - 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
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) – CCBC Choices (best of the year list) – 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
Foreword INDIES Award – Nature – Wolf Island
Foundation for Landscape Studies – John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize – Invention of Public Space
French Association of American Studies - Research Award - Capture
International Studies Association – Yale H. Ferguson Book Award – The Politics of Annihilation – honorable mention
Kraszna-Krausz Foundation – Kraszna-Kraus Moving Image Awards – Ends of Cinema - longlist
Labriola Center – American Indian National Book Award – Hungry Listening
Media Ecology Association – Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction – The Responsive Environment
Michigan Notable Books Award – Wolf Island
Minnesota Book Award – Memoir & Creative Nonfiction – Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify
Minnesota Book Award – Minnesota Nonfiction – Minnesota’s Geologist
Minnesota Youth Reading Awards (MYRA) – Star of the North Picture Book Award – Johnny’s Pheasant – nominee
Modernist Studies Association - MSA Book Award - Happiness by Design - shortlist
Modernist Studies Association - MSA First Book Award - Death of Things - honorable mention
NAISA – Best First Book Award – Hungry Listening
National Council on Public History – Book Award – Standing with Standing Rock – honorable mention
Photography Network Book Prize - Documents of Doubt
Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature – Trans Care
Royal Musical Association - RMA/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize - Hungry Listening
Seminary Co-op - Notable Books of 2021 - Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect
Society of Architectural Historians – Spiro Kostof Book Award – The Decorated Tenement
Society of Midland Authors – Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography and Memoir – Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify – Honoree
Society for Humanistic Anthropology – Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing – Shaving the Beasts – honorable mention
Society for the Study of Social Problems – Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award – Scammer’s Yard
Society for the Study of Social Problems – Racial and Ethnic Minorities Division – Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award – Black Food Matters – honorable mention
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 – How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900-1940
Women Writing the West – WILLA Awards – The Streel – finalist
World Fantasy Award – Special Award: Professional – The Monster Theory Reader – finalist