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Siddiqi link Cover features an abstract painting composed of blues, greens, and purples. The composition is vaguely geometric, with black lines outlining different colors in triangular and rectangular shapes. One shape has handwritten, cursive writing in white within it that extends beyond the edge of the cover.

Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement
Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi

Winner of the 2026 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, presented by the Society of Architectural Historians

Honorable Mention, 2025 African Studies Association Best Book Prize

Arvas link Cover art for Boys Abducted is an abstract painting with expressive brushstrokes depicting figures in vibrant colors—red, blue, white, and gold—engaged in a chaotic scene. One of the figures appears to be carrying off another.

Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity
Abdulhamit Arvas

Winner of the 2026 Shakespeare Association of America First Book Award

Co-Winner of the 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of America

Radical Play Cover of Radical Play features a photo of dolls: a black baby in a plaid dress, a white baby in a blue shirt, a soldier, a black man in a leather jacket, and a white Barbie in a biker outfit. In the background are cutouts of other Barbies.

Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children’s Toys in 1960s and 1970s America
Rob Goldberg

Co-Winner of the 2026 Senior Book Prize for Outstanding Toy Research, presented by the International Toy Research Association

Winner of the 2024 Lawrence W. Levine Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians

Winner of the 2024 Ray and Pat Browne Award, presented by the Popular Culture Association

Billé link Cover art of Somatic States is a medium shot of a woman with her left hand posed above her head and right hand resting on her belt. She has several tattoos, most notably a New Jersey outline surrounding her armpit.

Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity
Franck Billé

Winner of the 2026 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award, presented by the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Smith Ice Geographies link Cover of Ice Geographies features an abstract art piece by Darcie Bernhardt titled Beluga Hunting. It depicts a light pink, green, and blue marbled pattern. Forked green and white lines within the pattern evoke topographic striations.

Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic
Jen Rose Smith

Winner of the 2026 CAPE Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Co-Winner of the On the Brinck Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning

Sostaita link Cover of Sanctuary Everywhere features an artistic rendering of a man's head sitting on a rocky ground. Out of his mouth extends a distorted shape resembling the United States. At the top of the shape, in the corners, are two hands extending upwards.

Sanctuary Everywhere: The Fugitive Sacred in the Sonoran Desert
Barbara Andrea Sostaita

Winner of the 2026 Bryce Wood Book Award, presented by the Latin American Studies Association

Shimizu link Cover of The Movies of Racial Childhoods features a painting in which a child swims through tumultuous waves colored in reds, blues, and whites. The child's eyes are closed, and one arm is raised over its head, mid-swimming-stroke.

The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America
Celine Parreñas Shimizu

Winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Media, Performance, and Visual Studies Book Award

Khuc link Cover of dear elia has a light blue background, with a photograph in the center of the page. The photograph depicts a young girl in a floral dress and pink shoes. She holds a stick and walks down an empty path.

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss
Mimi Khúc

Co-Winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies Book Award

Das Gupta All of Us link Cover of All of Us or None features a multi-media graphic which depicts a monochrome landscape photo of watchtowers in a field. In the foreground, a woman pours a cascade of water dotted with colorful frogs, flowers, and butterflies from a vase.

All of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession
Monisha Das Gupta

Co-Winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Book Award

Nebolon link Cover of Settler Militarism features a dark-hued piece of geometric artwork. A beige triangular shape repeats and tessellates across a dappled black-and-brown background.

Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai'i and the Making of US Empire
Juliet Nebolon

Co-Winner of the 2026 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award

Amador link Cover of Politics of Care Work features a photograph of a middle-aged woman speaking on the phone.

The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice
Emma Amador

Honorable Mention, 2026 Sharon Harris Annual Book Award, presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute

Nguyen Promise of Beauty link Cover of The Promise of Beauty features a collage-style piece of art. Orange, yellow, and pink flames burst from a spray of roses. Monarch butterflies surround the fire.

The Promise of Beauty
Mimi Thi Nguyen

Honorable Mention, 2026 Association for Asian American Studies Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary Studies Book Award

New Kingdom of Granada link Cover of The New Kingdom of Granada features patterns from ancient Muisican (pre-Colombian) art, now displayed in the British Museum. The background is a dark red and black pattern featuring geometric shapes, circular motifs, and stylized figures.

The New Kingdom of Granada: The Making and Unmaking of Spain’s Atlantic Empire
Santiago Muñoz-Arbeláez

Co-Winner of the 2026 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of America

Barker State of Fear link Cover of State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City by Joshua Barker. Cover is teal blue and features a noise-distorted map. An undefined dark mass encroaches on the right side of the map. The title text is in white.

State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City
Joshua Barker

Winner of the 2026 Harry J. Benda Prize, presented by the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

Hilderbrand Bars link Cover of The Bars Are Ours is a painting of nine men crowded together in the red and blue lights of a club or bar. Each man is shown from the torso up. Some sport earrings, cowboy hats, and styled moustaches, and one wears a mohawk.

The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
Lucas Hilderbrand

Honorable Mention, 2025 Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, presented by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association

Munster link The cover features a navy blue background; white, diagonally aligned title text that starts in the top-left corner; and a slightly blurred closeup of a pink flower that takes up most of the lower half.

DeepAesthetics: Computational Experience in a Time of Machine Learning
Anna Munster

Winner of the 2026 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, presented by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Weisenfeld link Cover features a collage of images and Japanese characters against an orange and red background, including a smiling woman in the lower right corner and a lightbulb and an eye in the upper right corner. The cover text is white.

The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan
Gennifer Weisenfeld

Winner of the 2026 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize

Cornejo link Cover of Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America by Kency Cornejo. Cover features a photograph of an individual with long black hair looking out over a yellow cornfield. The person wears a blue jacket with various words stitched into it in vibrant colors. The sky is blue above the field with a few scattered groups of puffy, white clouds.

Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America
Kency Cornejo

Winner of the 2026 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award, presented by the Association of Latin American Art section of the College Art Association

Winner of the 2025 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize

Co-Winner of the 2025 Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies Award, presented by the Visual Cultural Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association

Hoffmann Knowing link Cover of Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918) by Anette Hoffmann. Cover features faded black and white imagine of the back of an African American prisoner hunched in front of a wooden building. Title in white text in top left of picture, and subtitle center bottom of picture in red and purple text. Author name below in blue text and similar blue color used as stripped border on the left of the cover.

Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)
Anette Hoffmann

Winner of the 2025 Alan Merriam Prize, presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology

Co-Winner of the 2025 Offermann-Hergarten Prize, presented by the Offermann-Hergarten Foundation and the University of Cologne’s Faculty of Philosophy

Honorable Mention, 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Record Labels or General Recording Topics, presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Maurer link Cover of The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists by Anaïs Maurer. Cover features abstract batik art in bright orange, blue, and red, that is reminiscent of a jellyfish. The title and author name are in white type over the art.

The Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists
Anaïs Maurer

Winner of the 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, presented by the Modern Language Association

Calhoun F24 link Cover of The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire by Doyle D. Calhoun. Cover features an image of a woman staring forward, with only the back of her head facing the audience. She looks towards a mask which hangs on the wall in front of her. The mask casts a shadow on the wall. The title lettering is in blue, contrasted against the white of the wall on the cover.

The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Doyle D. Calhoun

Winner of the 2025 Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, presented by the Modern Language Association

Cesaire link Cover of .....And the Dogs Were Silent/…..Et les chiens se taisaient by Aimé Césaire. Features an image of a blue & white ceramic tile with a picture of Toussaint Louverture. In the middle are the words Translated and with an introduction by Alex Gil.  With a foreword by Brent Hayes Edwards. Césaire’s Lost Play of The Haitian Revolution, a Bilingual Edition.

......And the Dogs Were Silent/......Et les chiens se taisaient
Aimé Césaire

Honorable Mention, 2025 Lois Roth Book Award, presented by the Modern Language Association

Widener link Cover of Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity by Daniel Widener, with foreword by Vijay Prashad. Cover resembles a political poster, with a red banner across the top which has the title. Below the banner is a cartoonish depiction of a crowd, with five figures distinguished at the front. One has a mustache and wears a white hat, and they all appear to be in the middle of speaking.

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity
Daniel Widener

Winner of the 2025 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, presented by the American Studies Association

Mingwei Huang link The cover features a photo of a parking lot at daytime. The photo has been taken from a dark hallway; the lot is visible through a wide doorway. Although several cars, parked trucks, and a row of cargo containers occupy the parking lot, a distinct lack of human figures gives the landscape an empty atmosphere.

Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism: South Africa in the Chinese Century
Mingwei Huang

Honorable Mention, 2025 African Studies Association Best Book Prize

Messeri link Cover of In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual & Other Realities in Los Angeles by Lisa Messeri. Cover features an individual with a virtual reality headset strapped on their face. The individual and headset is tinted in purple, blue, and pink. Their head is angled upwards, and the background depicts an image of a beach with palm trees that is edited to have a pink hue on top of it.

In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles
Lisa Messeri

Winner of the 2025 Gregory Bateson Prize, presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Honorable Mention for the 2025 Ludwik Fleck Prize, presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science

Zengin link Cover of Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World by Asli Zengin. The cover features an abstract painting with an off-white background. Abstract black shapes are scattered throughout the painting, and some have light gray detailing overlaid on top of the black shapes. Cover letters are black and red. Author name is in red ink.

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World
Aslı Zengin

Winner of the 2025 Middle East Section Book Prize, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association

Winner of the 2024 Ruth Benedict Prize, presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2025 Anne Bolin and Gil Herdt Book Prize in Human Sexuality and Anthropology, presented by the Human Sexuality and Anthropology Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association.

Beliso-De Jesús link Cover of Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús. Cover is black with an inverted black and white image of several figures in an urban setting behind police tape. Trees behind the figures appear to be glowing brightly. The title appears in orange on the top half of the design and the subtitle and author name are smaller and in white.

Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease
Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Winner of the 2025 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropology Senior Book Award

First Place Prize, 2025 Victor Turner Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Runagate link Cover of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound by Crystal Simone Smith. Cover is tan with a colorful circular detail from a quilt that features a tree with yellow leaves and a figure of a Black person carrying a bundle tied to a stick over their shoulder. Beneath the image the title is in a large, black block print reminiscent of old-fashioned Wanted posters. The subtitle is below that in red and the author name at the bottom in black.

Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
Crystal Simone Smith

Winner of the 2025 Roanoke-Chowan Book Award for Poetry, presented by the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association

Daly link Cover of Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Cover features a photograph of four uniformed African soldiers. Two of the soldiers are standing on the hood of a car. One speaks into a microphone; the other holds a rifle. Below them, one man looks straight at the camera, a fierce expression on his face.

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire
Samuel Fury Childs Daly

Honorable Mention, 2025 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award presented by the American Society for Legal History

Asare link Cover of Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage by Mari Asare. Cover features a blue-toned photograph of a young Eartha Kitt with her arms spread and her mouth open in song. The title text is overlaid in yellow lettering.

Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
Masi Asare

Winner of the 2025 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award, presented by the American Musicological Society

Co-Winner of the 2024-25 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, presented by Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English

Honorable Mention, 2025 Kurt Weill Book Award, presented by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

Mueller Vanguard Link Cover of At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz by Darren Mueller. Cover text is in black and white over a photo of Duke Ellington, with a cigarette in his mouth, sitting at a piano. Billy Strayhorn stands next to him, looking down. A microphone hangs over them.

At the Vanguard of Vinyl: A Cultural History of the Long-Playing Record in Jazz
Darren Mueller

Winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz, presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Abourahme link Cover of The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony by Nasser Abourahme. Cover is blue and features an image of an art installation featuring six human figures in concrete. There is some Arabic text above them on the right. The title is in white at the top of the design, the subtitle beneath that in red, and the author name at the bottom in white.

The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony
Nasser Abourahme

Winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in the Best Academic Book category

Rivera-Rideau link Cover of Fitness Fiesta: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau. Cover features blue, translucent lettering over a pink-tinted photo over a Zumba class. The lettering is too large to read; however, the actual title text is legible, centered on the cover in white.

Fitness Fiesta: Selling Latinx Culture through Zumba
Petra R. Rivera-Rideau

Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for Latina and Latino Anthropology Book Award

Whatcott link Cover of Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics by Jess Whatcott. Cover features an abstract landscape painting. A tall, black plant with tattered leaves stands in the foreground. Behind it, a large moons sits over a low horizon.

Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics
Jess Whatcott

Honorable Mention, 2025 Alison Piepmeier Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association

Denbow link Cover of Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype by Jennifer Denbow. In the cover photo, a tangle of white cords sprawl across a concrete floor. Although the cords appear white at first—reminiscent of charging cables—they are, upon closer inspection, clear tubes filled with white liquid. The title text is written in white and blue.

Reproductive Labor and Innovation: Against the Tech Fix in an Era of Hype
Jennifer Denbow

Honorable Mention, 2025 Sara A. Whaley Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association

Negron NuYoRico link Cover of Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings by Marisol Negrón. The cover’s background is solid orange. A ‘60s black and white photo of musicians in a crowded city street lays sideways across the cover’s center. The title text is enclosed in subway-sign-like circles.

Made in NuYoRico: Fania Records, Latin Music, and Salsa’s Nuyorican Meanings
Marisol Negrón

Honorable Mention, 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Record Labels or General Recording Topics, presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Drew Unspooled link Cover of Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareables by Rob Drew. Cover features a photograph of a stack of cassette tapes in their cases against a black background. Cassette titles, featured on the side of the cases, include Throwing Muses, The Mountain Goats "Hot Garden Stomp," Cleaners from Venus In the Golden Autumn, NME/Rough Trade, Los Angeles/Wild Gift, SubPop, and Husker Du Zen Arcade New Day Rising.

Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable
Rob Drew

Honorable Mention, 2025 Award for Excellence in Best Historical Research in Record Labels or General Recording Topics, presented by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Hunt Psychiatric link Cover of Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness edited by Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel. Cover features photograph of hut with low brown, tinted opacity. Over text, left-aligned, red text sits in the center of the cover. Editor's name in all capital text sits on top, with book title below, and book subtitle at bottom.

Psychiatric Contours: New African Histories of Madness
Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, editors

Honorable Mention, 2025 African Studies Review Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection

Larson link Cover of The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia by Brooke Larson. Cover has a black background. In the top half of the cover, a painting is featured. It has several individuals clothed in bright colored garments with their arms raised upwards. At the top and center of the painitng is a woman more pronounced than the rest, holding a book and raising one hand upwards.

The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia
Brooke Larson

Winner of the 2025 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, presented by the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies

Co-Winner of the 2025 Bolton-Johnson Prize, presented by the Conference on Latin American History

Hertzman link Cover of After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi by Marc A. Hertzman. Cover features a sketch of individuals in bright, vibrant pants working along a coastline and wading into the water. One figure stands on a platform high above the rest. There are intimations of a map on the far left side of the cover. Trees line the water in the background of the image.

After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi
Marc A. Hertzman

Winner of the 2025 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History, presented by the American Historical Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Warren Dean Memorial Book Prize, presented by the Conference on Latin American History and the American Historical Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, presented by the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize

Baghoolizadeh link Cover of The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran by Beeta Baghoolizadeh. Cover has a dark gray background. "Color Black" is written down vertically on top of the gray background in bold, black lettering. On top of the gray and black cover art is the title in neon yellowish, green block letters.

The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
Beeta Baghoolizadeh

Winner of the 2025 Wesley-Logan Prize, presented by the American Historical Association

Winner of the 2025 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize, presented by the Journal of Global Slavery

Bhattacharya link Cover of Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal by Tithi Bhattacharya. Cover features a black background. An etching in light green portrays an inidvidual standing before a monster with large teeth and reptilian limbs. The individual appears to be holding a small flag or some other small object in front of the monster's face.

Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal
Tithi Bhattacharya

Winner of the 2025 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, presented by the American Historical Association

Yannakakis Time Immemorial link Cover of Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico by Yanna Yannakakis. Cover is made to resemble old paper. On the right side is a pattern of blue and purple lines that form a semicircle, with small drawn figurines walking on the lines. Stretching from the semicircle is a purple branch, and along the branch and past its end is a pattern of figurines that stretch down the left of the cover.

Since Time Immemorial: Native Custom and Law in Colonial Mexico
Yanna Yannakakis

Co-Winner of the 2025 Howard Francis Cline Memorial Prize, presented by the Conference on Latin American History

Winner of the 2024 Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History, presented by the American Historical Association

Winner of the 2024 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, presented by the American Society for Legal History

Yountae link Cover of The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making by An Yountae. Cover features a photograph of an abstract piece of sculpture art. The sculpture appears to depict a very abstract portrayal of a horse and its rider holding a staff.

The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making
An Yountae

Honorable Mention, 2025 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies

Medovoi Inner Life link Cover of The Inner Life of Race: Souls, Bodies, & The History of Racial Power by Leerom Medovoi. Cover has a black background, and there is a figure in the left-hand, bottom corner. Half of this figure's body resembles that of a court jester in a blue tunic. The other half of this figure's body resembles that of a demon, with vines extending out of its mouth and a pointed tail extending behind his leg.

The Inner Life of Race: Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power
Leerom Medovoi

Honorable Mention, 2025 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Analytical-Descriptive Studies

Deathlife Cover of Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness by Anthony B. Pinn. Cover background is solid white. A figure in a hoodie, sweatpants, and Nike sneakers is in the center of the cover. The figure's clothes are varied shades of gray and black. The figure appears to be in motion, either running or stepping forward as they look over their shoulder behind them.

Deathlife: Hip Hop and Thanatological Narrations of Blackness
Anthony B. Pinn

Honorable Mention, 2025 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies

Co-Winner of the 2024 Gold Medal in the Performing Arts category of the 2024 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards

Styker Monsters Cover of When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader. Cover is black with white lettering. Subtitle is in upper left, title and author name at the bottom. Edited by McKenzie Wark appears vertically on the right side in small text. There is a photo of a young Stryker on the book. She has long dark hair, is wearing sunglasses, a leather jacket, ripped jeans, and a t-shirt with the transgender symbol visible. She leans against a chain link fence.

When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader
Susan Stryker
Edited by McKenzie Wark

Winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBTQ+ Studies category

McTighe link Cover of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South by Laura McTighe, with Women With A Vision. Foreword by Deon Haywood. Cover features a painting of a woman walking forward, with a long piece of fabric draped over her shoulders and billowing behind her. Four figures stand behind her in the shadowed part of the painting, while the woman walking forward, facing to the left of the cover is illuminated.

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
Laura McTighe with Women With A Vision

First Place Prize, 2025 Edie Turner First Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Vibrant Matter link

Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
Jane Bennett

Winner of the 2025 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, presented by the American Political Science Association

Camera Geologica by Siobhan Angus Cover of Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus. The cover is an abstract, black and gray image, with granular detailing that gives the cover a distinct texture visually. The title is depicted in big, skinny, capital letters that take up the majority of the cover space.

Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography
Siobhan Angus

Co-Winner of the 2025 Universities Art Association of Canada Book Prize

Co-Winner of the 2024 Photography Network Book Award

Together, Somehow link Cover of Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta. Cover is a blurry photo of a crowd on the dancefloor. The photo is tinted with a blue to pink gradient, starting with blue at the bottom and pink at the top.

Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta

Co-Winner of the 2025 IASPM Book Prize, presented by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Winner of the 2025 Woody Guthrie Award, presented by the US Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Winner of the 2024 Ruth Stone Prize, presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology

Matsumura link Cover of Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire by Wendy Matsumura. Cover has a black background and two renderings of a full moon on the cover. The two moons are connected by a translucent, white band, as if the moon was dragged across the page, leaving a trace of its path in its wake.

Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire
Wendy Matsumura

Winner of the 2025 Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Prize, presented by the Marxist Sociology section of the American Sociological Association

Davé link Cover of Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being by Naisargi N. Davé. The cover is light gray, and features drawings of different people from the torso up, with empty thought and speech bubbles over their heads. There are several animals around the people, including a cheetah, deer, birds, a cat, and a dog. There are also multicolored circles patterned around the people.

Indifference: On the Praxis of Interspecies Being
Naisargi N. Davé

Winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, presented by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

Second Place, 2025 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Honorable Mention, 2024 Ruth Benedict Prize, presented by the Association for Queer Anthropology

Dominican Crossroads link Cover of Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation by Christina Cecelia Davidson. Cover features a sketch of a map with street names written along the roads. Behind the map is a sketch of H.C.C. Astwood wearing a suit and tie against a light blue background.

Dominican Crossroads: H. C. C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation
Christina Cecelia Davidson

Winner of the 2025 Phillis Wheatley Book Prize, presented by the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

Winner of the 2025 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, presented by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Cover of Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt by Atef Shahat Said. Cover is a drawing of a city. In the foreground are indistinct crowds of people, dotted with red marks in the bottom right corner. Past these crowds is an indistinct marketplace in yellow, and in the background is a skyline of tall buildings and construction.

Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
Atef Shahat Said

Winner of the 2025 Evelyn Shakir Nonfiction Award, presented by the Arab American National Museum

Other Side of Empathy link Cover of The Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis. Cover is a black and white photo, depicting a close up of a light-skinned man looking through binoculars. The man's face is covered in sun spots, he is lightly wrinkled, and wearing a collared shirt. The binoculars are dark, and show the reflection of a city skyline. There are plants around the man's collar which suggest he is hiding in the bushes.

The Other Side of Empathy
Jade E. Davis

Winner of the 2025 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

Gendered Fortunes link Cover of Gendered Fortunes by Zeynep K. Korkman. The cover is an abstract oil painting with colorful, roundish shapes. The subtitle is black and in all caps while the subtitle is in white.

Gendered Fortunes: Divination, Precarity, and Affect in Postsecular Turkey
Zeynep K. Korkman

Winner of the 2025 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association

Honorable Mention, 2024 Association of Middle East Women’s Studies Book Award

Sobering link Cover of The People′s Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina by Katherine Sobering. The cover features an image of a tall glass-walled building in the middle of a city. The main title is in a fat yellow font over the photo.

The People's Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina
Katherine Sobering

Winner of the 2025 Max Weber Award, presented by the Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association

Chin link Cover of Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica by Matthew Chin. Background of the cover is black. A pattern is created by an image of an individual that is copied and configured in a fractal structure. This structure creates a circular pattern in black and white on the cover.

Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
Matthew Chin

Co-winner of the 2025 John Boswell Prize, presented by the LGBTQ+ History Association section of the American Historical Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Prize, presented by the Caribbean Studies Association

Eungsong Kim link Cover of The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property by Eunsong Kim. Cover features an edited imaged of an individual's arm hanging over something with their hand reaching downward. Orange, red, and brown hues are overlaid atop the image along the righthand side of the cover.

The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property
Eunsong Kim

Honorable Mention, 2025 Cultural Studies Association First Book Award

Brown, Unsettled Labors link Cover of Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel by Rachel H. Brown. Against a dark blue background, a simple outline of the Palestinian/Israeli region is drawn in bright red. The interior of the outline is empty; it contains no labels or boarders that distinguish the two states.

Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel
Rachel H. Brown

Honorable Mention, 2025 Best Book Award in Middle East and North African Politics, presented by the MENA section of the American Political Science Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize, presented by the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Michael Harrington Award, presented by the Critical Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association

Marston link Cover of Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia by Andrea Marston. Cover features a photograph of two individuals drilling into rock. They wear head lamps and helmets along with long-sleeve shirts and pants, covering every inch of their skin. The individuals also wear gas masks, and the only light sources in the image are their head lamps.

Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia
Andrea Marston

Winner of the 2025 Latin American Studies Association’s Environment Section Best Book Award

Honorable Mention, 2025 Bryce Wood Book Award, presented by the Latin American Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Outstanding Publication Award presented by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Dockside Reading link Cover of Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House by Isabel Hofmeyr. Cover features a black-and-white picture of a ship in harbor from the perspective of someone standing on shore, set against a teal background.

Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr

Honorable Mention, 2025 Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Award in the Established Researcher category

Residual Governance Cover of Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht. Cover portrays a sandy and rocky landscape. In the foreground, a shirtless man, wearing blue pants and a black hat, chips away at the ground with a pick ax.

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
Gabrielle Hecht

Third Place Prize, 2025 Victor Turner Prize, presented by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Winner of the 2024 African Studies Association Best Book Prize

Winner of the 2024 E. Ohnuki-Tierney Book Award for Historical Anthropology, presented by the American Anthropological Association

Winner of the 2024 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences

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Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America
Inés Katzenstein, María del Carmen Carrión, and Madeline Murphy Turner, editors

Winner of the 2025 PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism, presented by the Association of American Publishers

Cover of Riotous Deathscapes by Hugo ka Canham. The text is on the right third of the cover, against an orange background, and on the left side of the cover is a dark gray background with a black and white drawing of indistinct and unsettling figures. The figures are oriented around a circle of darkness on the page, some are on chairs, some are bodily connected to each other, and some are eating each other.

Riotous Deathscapes
Hugo ka Canham

Winner of the 2025 Academy of Science of South Africa Humanities Book Award in the Established Researcher Category

Bobbette Link Cover of Being Dead Otherwise by Anne Allison. Cover is black, and at its center is an aerial view into a room filled with garbage, with sunlight coming in from a window with open curtains at the top end of the room. The room is being cradled by two disembodied hands.

Being Dead Otherwise
Anne Allison

Winner of the 2025 John Whitney Hall Prize, presented by the Association of Asian Studies

Bobbette Link Cover of The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java by Adam Bobbette. Cover is a black and white photo of a rocky field, with clouds drifting over the field. In the center of the cover is a translucent dark gray triangle outlined in gold. Over the triangle is the title, and above and beneath it is the author information and subtitle.

The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java
Adam Bobbette

Winner of the 2025 Harry J. Benda First Book Prize, presented by the Southeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies

Putcha link Cover of The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India by Rumya Sree Putcha. Cover features black and white picture of girl in front of a navy and blue background patterned with flowers and leaves. Title in white sits above the girl centered left with one word per line and subtitle/author name sits in all caps white text centered right.

The Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India
Rumya Sree Putcha

Winner of the 2025 Bernard S. Cohn First Book Prize, presented by the Association for Asian Studies

Winner of the 2024 de la Torre Bueno® First Book Award, presented by the Dance Studies Association

Co-Winner of the 2025 Joann Kealiinohomoku Prize, presented by the Dance, Movement, Gesture Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Honorable Mention, 2025 Marcia Herndon Book Prize, presented by the Gender and Sexuality Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Honorable Mention, 2024 Sally Banes Publication Prize, presented by the American Society for Theater Research

Greenleaf link Cover of Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon by Maron E. Greenleaf. Cover features a black and white landscape photo; a dirt road curves through a shrubby field. In the left and right corners of the cover, the words “Forest” and “Lost” repeat respectively, losing letters until gone.

Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Maron E. Greenleaf

Honorable Mention, 2025 Latin American Studies Association’s Environment Section Best Book Award

Potts link Cover of Judicial Territory by Shaina Potts. The cover, in shades of beige, white, and gray, features an abstract geometric shape bisecting a topographical map.

Judicial Territory: Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire
Shaina Potts

Winner of the 2025 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award, presented by the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Winner of the 2025 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, presented by the American Association of Geographers

Chari cover Cover of Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari. A photograph of a cityscape is featured on the cover. The photograph is edited with a red-hued filter. Smoke comes out of a factory in the background. The entire cover is dimmed except for a circle at the top, left corner that is bright and highlights the title text.

Apartheid Remains
Sharad Chari

Honorable Mention, 2025 Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, presented by the American Association of Geographers

Mameni link Cover of Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics by Salar Mameni. Cover is black, and features a gray metallic statue of a woman in a tank top, missing a head. The woman has her arms spread out over the base of a statue, which is a rectangular prism with two smaller tiers at the top. The woman's legs have melted, and drip over the statue base in a black goo. There is a spotlight on the woman's torso.

Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics
Salar Mameni

Winner of the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the Media, Performance, and Visual Studies category

Diaz S23 link Cover of Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America by Josen Masangkay Diaz. The cover is an abstract oil painting, featuring many blurry pink-red shapes, with occasional white or blue shapes among them.

Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America
Josen Masangkay Diaz

Winner of the 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards in the Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies category

Dreams in Double Time Cover of Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop by Jonathan Leal. Cover is a black and white photo of the face and trumpets of two trumpet players. The leftmost wears glasses and the other player stands closely next to him, with his eyes in shadow. The faces and trumpets take up the top half of the cover, while the bottom half is black and contains the title text in white, orange, and blue.

Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop
Jonathan Leal

Honorable Mention, 2025 Woody Guthrie Book Award, presented by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music–US Branch

Honorable Mention, 2023 Jazz Journalists Association Book Award

Intoxicated by Mel Y. Chen Cover of Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy Across Empire by Mel Y. Chen. Cover is green and features a distorted, faded image of a flower. In the foreground is a single reddish bloom, and in the background is a cluster of similar flowers. The image is faded, blurred, and has a green filter which distorts the original coloration of the image.

Intoxicated: Race, Disability, and Chemical Intimacy across Empire
Mel Y. Chen

Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards in the Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies category

Clutario link Cover of Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 by Genevieve Alva Clutario. Cover depicts white embroidered fabric in the shape of a woman's side profile, and dark blue fabric with embroidered patterns serves as the background.

Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898–1941
Genevieve Alva Clutario

Honorable Mention, 2025 Association for Asian American Studies Book Awards in the History category

Shaw, Art of Remembering Cover of The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw. Cover features a photograph of an African American man kneeling in a suit in the foreground. The man kneels in a field of tall, green grass with whispy vines hanging above his head. The field extends far into the background, revealing a large grassy plain.

The Art of Remembering: Essays on African American Art and History
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw

Winner of the 2025 James A. Porter Book Award, presented by the Howard University James A. Porter Colloquium

Beyond the Sovereign Self link Cover of Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art by Grant H. Kester. Cover is a dark gray color, and the text of the title is centered, with Beyond the Sovereign Self in orange, Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art in green, and Grant H. Kester in pink.

Beyond the Sovereign Self:
Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art
Grant H. Kester

Co-Winner of the 2025 Frank Jewett Mather Award, presented by the College Art Association

Cover of Crip Spacetime features a university building with grass in the foreground. A sign indicating a disabled entrance is between the words Crip and Spacetime. It is very far away from the building.

Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life
Margaret Price

Honorable Mention, 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communications Outstanding Book Award in the Monograph category

Winner of the 2024 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2025 Conference on College Composition and Communications Research Impact Award