2009

Krista Thompson, author of an Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque, has been awarded the 2009 David C. Driskell Prize by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Named after the renowned African American artist and art scholar, the Driskell Prize recognizes a scholar or artist in the beginning or middle of his or her career whose work makes an original and important contribution to the field of African American art or art history.

The International Convention of Asia Scholars has released its shortlist of nominees for the annual book awards and two Duke titles are on the shortlist in the Social Sciences category: Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth and Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang.

Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E. B. Candelario is the reciepient of the 2009 LASA Latina/o Studies Section Book Award.

The Return of the Native: Indians and Myth-Making in Spanish America, 1810–1930 by Rebecca A. Earle has been recognized with an honorable mention for the 2008 Bolton-Johnson Award, presented by the Conference on Latin American History.

A Revolution for Our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880–1952 by Laura Gotkowitz, was awarded the 2008 John E. Fagg Prize at the American Historical Association annual conference.

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders by Kathy Davis is the winner of the 2009 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, presented by the American Historical Association. Last year, the book also received the 2008 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award and the 2008 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize.

Several Duke University Press titles will be recognized by the Association for Asian American Studies at the 2009 annual conference. Sessue Hayakawa by Daisuke Miyao was named the 2007 Best Book in History; Interventions into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry was named the 2007 Best Book in Literary Studies; and Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar and The Hypersexuality of Race by Celine Parreñas Shimizu were named 2007 Best Books in Cultural Studies.

2008

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies is the winner of the 2008 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, presented by the Association of Black Women Historians

Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers by Michelle Murphy is the recipient of the 2008 Ludwik Fleck Prize, presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine is a finalist for 2008 Lambda Literary Award, in the non-fiction category. The book is also the recipient of the 2007 Ruth Benedict Award, presented by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA).

Battling for Hearts and Minds by Steve J. Stern is the winner of the 2007 Bolton-Johnson Award, presented by the Conference of Latin American Historians.

The Plebeian Republic, The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State by Cecilia Méndez is the winner of the 2007 Howard Cline Memorial Prize, presented by the Conference on Latin American History.

2007

The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar has been named co-winner of the 2006 MLA Prize in U.S. Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, presented in December 2007.

Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo by Julia Elyachar is the co-winner of the 2007 Sharon Stephens First Book Award from the American Ethnological Society

Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico by Jake Kosek is the recipient of the 2007 John Hope Franklin Award, presented by the American Studies Association.

Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire by Mrinalini Sinha is the recipient of the 2007 Albion Book Prize, presented by the North American Conference on British Studies

The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei was a finalist in the nonficition category for the 2007 Hurston-Wright Legacy Awards.

Bodies in Dissent by Daphne Brooks is the recipient of the 2007 Errol Hill Award from the American Society of Theatre Research.

Global Cinderellas by Pei-Chia Lan has received the 2007 International Convention of Asian Scholars Book Prize for a study in social science. The book is also the recipient of the 2007 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award.

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer is the co-winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, presented by the Caribbean Studies Association.

Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago by Nicholas De Genova has received the 2007 C.L.R. James Book Award, presented by the Working-Class Studies Association as well as the 2006 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropologist Book Award. Working the Boundaries was a finalist for the 2005 C. Wright Mills Award.

Two Duke University Press titles have received the Arnold Rubin Book Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association. In the single-author category, Elizabeth Harney is honored for her book In Senghor’s Shadow. In the edited collection category, Sarah Nuttall has been recognized for Beautiful/Ugly.

Vicente Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History and Contracting Colonialism (all published by Duke University Press), has received the Grant Goodman Prize (presented by the Philippine Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies).

Pin-up Grrrls by Maria Elena Buszek was recognized with an honorable mention in judging for the Emily Toth Award, presented by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association.

Stigmas of the Tamil Stage by Susan Seizer has been awarded the 2007 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, presented by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Policing Chinese Politics by Michael Dutton has been awarded the 2007 Joseph Levinson Book Prize for post-1900 China, presented by the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

2006

Courage Tastes of Blood by Florencia E. Mallon has been awarded the 2006 Bolton-Johnson Award by the Conference of Historians of Latin America.

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye is the winner of the 2005 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association at its annual conference in December 2006.

James Applewhite’s Selected Poems has been awarded the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Marketplace by Pun Ngai has been awarded the 2005 C. Wright Mills Award by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910 by Kali N. Gross has been awarded the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize by the Association of Black Women Historians

Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius by Megan Vaughan has been awarded the 2006 Alf Heggoy Prize by the French Colonial Historical Society.

Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution by Sibylle Fischer is the recipient of the 2006 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award.

Remembering Pinochet’s Chile by Steve J. Stern has received an honorable mention from the Latin American Studies Association Bryce Wood Award Committee.

Hello, Hello Brazil by Bryan McCann is the recipient of the 2005 Woody Guthrie Award, presented by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch.

Love Saves the Day by Tim Lawrence has received an honorable mention in the 2005 The Woody Guthrie Award competition.

2005

Modernity Disavowed by Sibylle Fischer has received the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award, presented by the Modern Language Association. The book has also been awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize, presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.

Envisioning Taiwan by June Yip is the winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for an Independent Scholar.

Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice by Michael M. J. Fischer is the recipient of the 2005 American Ethnological Society’s Senior Scholar Award.

The Cord Keepers by Frank Salomon is the recipient of the 2005 Erminie
Wheeler-Voegelin Award, presented by the American Society for Ethnohistory.

Landscape of Devils by Gaston R. Gordillo has received the 2005 American Ethnological Society Sharon Stephens First Book Award.

This Was Not Our War by Swanee Hunt has received the 2005 L.L. Winship/Pen New England Award for Non-Fiction.

Fragmented Memories: Struggling to be Tai-Ahom in India by Yasmin Saikia has received the Srikant Dutt Memorial Award, presented by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library for the best book in social sciences (2002–2004).

The Male Pill by Nelly Oudshoorn is the recipient of the 2005 Rachel Carson Prize, presented by the Society for the Social Studies of Science.

Hello, Hello Brazil by Bryan McCann is the co-winner of the 2005 Roberto Reis Prize, presented by the Brazilian Studies Association.

Empire of Care by Catherine Ceniza Choy has received the 2005 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. Empire of Care also received an honorable mention for the Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association. In 2003, the book received an AJN Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing in the history and public policy category.

History after Apartheid by Annie Coombes has received the first annual National Council on Public History Book Award.

The Library Company of Philadelphia’s Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) has selected Gail MacLeitch’s essay “‘Red’ Labor: Iroquois Participation in the Atlantic Economy,” which appeared in Volume 1, Issue 4 of Labor:Studies of Working-Class History of the Americas, as recipient of its annual award for an outstanding journal publication in the field of early American economic history.

Aloha Betrayed by Noenoe Silva has received the 2005 Baldridge Book Prize for the best book in history by a resident of Hawai’i. Aloha Betrayed is also the second runner up for the 2005 National Council on Public History’s Book Prize.

How Economics Became a Mathematical Science by E. Roy Weintraub has received the 2005 Joseph J. Spengler Book Prize for the best book in the history of economics from the History of Economics Society.

Watching Jim Crow by Steven Classen was awarded the 2004 McGannon Research Award for the most notable book addressing issues of communications policy, awarded by the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center.

2004

Radical History Review’s “Our Americas” has received the 2004 Best Special Issue from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

Shoveling Smoke by William Mazzarella has received an honorable mention for the 2004 Victor Turner Prize.

Lesbian Rule by Amy Villarejo has won the 2005 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Society for Cinema & Media Studies.

The Archive and the Repertoire by Diana Taylor has received the 2004 Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from the Modern Language Association for an outstanding book in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The Archive and the Repertoire has also received the 2003 Association for Theater in Higher Education Research Award in Theatre Practice and Pedagogy.

Imagine Otherwise by Kandice Chuh is the recipient of the 2003 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association.

Appropriating Blackness by E. Patrick Johnson was named a finalist for the 2004 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the nonfiction category. The book is also the recipient of the Errol Hill Book Award, presented by the American Society of Theatre Research.

The Audible Past by Jonathan Sterne is the co-winner of the NCA Critical and Cultural Studies Division’s Book of the Year Award.

Hall of Mirrors by Laura A. Lewis has been awarded the 2004 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award, presented by the American Society for Ethnohistory.

Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios has received a 2004 Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.

Fluent Bodies by Jean M. Langford has received the Rachel Carson Prize, presented by the Society for the Study of Social Sciences.

Muddied Waters by Nancy Appelbaum has been awarded the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Award for works published in 2003. Muddied Waters has also been awarded the Northeast Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Award.

The Body Multiple by Annemarie Mol has been named winner of the 2004 Ludwig Fleck Award, awarded annually by the Society for the Social Studies of Science to the best book in the area of science and technology studies. The book has also been awarded the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, presented by the British Sociological Association’s Medical Sociology work group.

The Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize, presented by the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, has been awarded to Karen Offen for her article “French Women’s History: Retrospect (1789–1940) and Prospect”. The article appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of French Historical Studies.
Another article from the Fall 2003 issue of French Historical Studies, “Tarzan under Attack: Youth, Comics, and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France” by Richard I. Jobs, has been awarded the 2003 William Koren Jr. Prize for the best article on French history published by a North American Scholar.

Duke University Press author Sherry B. Ortner (New Jersey Dreaming) has been awarded the J. I. Staley Prize by The School of American Research.

The Caribbean Studies Association has awarded the 2004 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award and two Duke University Press titles were recognized with an honorable mention citation:
Black Nationalism in the New World by Robert Carr
Wizards and Scientists by Stephan Palmié

Screen Traffic by Charles Acland has been awaded the 2004 Robinson Book Prize, presented by the Canadian Communication Association.

Reconstructing Dixie by Tara McPherson has been awarded the John B.Cawelti Prize, presented by the American Culture Association.

In the Time of Trees and Sorrows by Ann Grodzins Gold and Bhoju Ram Gujar has been awarded the 2004 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, presented by the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

Disenchanting Les Bons Temps by Charles J. Stivale has received a 2004 Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award from Wayne State University.

Compositional Subjects by Laura Hyun Yi Kang has been awarded the 2003 Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Prozac on the Couch by Jonathan Michel Metzl has been named a finalist for the 2004 Cheiron Book Prize.

Michele McKay Aynesworth's translation of Mad Toy, a novel by Roberto Arlt, was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Translation Award.

Montrose receives multiple honors

Montrose: Life in a Garden has received two awards from the Garden Writer’s Association. Ippy Patterson has received a 2006 Gold Award in the “Best Illustration” category. Nancy Goodwin received a 2006 Silver Award for Writing (Books).