UNC Press Award Winners

New Award Winners
Wondrous Transformations by Alison Li
2025 Jason A. Hannah Medal, Royal Society of Canada
The Carceral City by John K. Bardes
2025 Joe William Trotter, Jr. Prize, Urban History Association
Under Alien Skies by Vaughn Scribner
2025 Society of the Cincinnati Prize
Finalist, 2024 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
An Efficient Womanhood by Natanya Duncan
Shortlisted, 2025 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award
Catastrophic Diplomacy by Julia F. Irwin
Tonous & Warda Johns Family Book Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
Quitting the Nation by Eric R. Schlereth
Honorable Mention, Norris and Carol Hundley Award, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association
On the Swamp by Ryan E. Emanuel
Finalist, 2025 Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
Sexual Violence and American Slavery by Shannon C. Eaves
2025 Mary Kelley Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Making Never-Never Land by Mónica A. Jiménez
2025 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Award, Caribbean Studies Association
The Sandinista Revolution by Mateo Jarquín
2025 Michael H. Hunt Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
What Side Are You On? by Michael Steven Wilson and José Antonio Lucero
2024 Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association
Confronting Jim Crow by Robert Cohen
Co-Winner, 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award
A Forgotten Migration by Crystal R. Sanders
Co-Winner, 2025 Lillian Smith Book Award
Recent Award Winners
Cross-Border Cosmopolitans by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey
Finalist, 2024 Outstanding First Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide
Seeing Things by Mason Kamana Allred
2025 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Association
The Carceral City by John K. Bardes
2024 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Louisiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association
2025 Humanities Book of the Year Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
A Question of Value by Robert Brunk
Finalist, 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Regional)
Brown Women Have Everything by Sayantani Dasgupta
Gold Winner, 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Essays)
Awakening the Ashes by Marlene L. Daut
Gold, 2024 Book Award for Informational Nonfiction, Independent Publishers of New England
Bundok by Adrian De Leon
Finalist, 2025 Shapiro Book Prize, Shapiro Center for American History and Culture at The Huntington
Sexual Violence and American Slavery by Shannon C. Eaves
Honorable Mention, 2025 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians
DARE to Say No by Max Felker-Kantor
Finalist, 2025 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
Awaiting Their Feast by Lori A. Flores
2024 Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association
Captive Cosmopolitans by Mary E. Hicks (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
2024 John Lyman Book Award in World Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History
Encyclopédie noire by Sara E. Johnson (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
2024 P. Sterling Stuckey Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Rendered Obsolete by Jamie L. Jones
Finalist, 2025 Ecocritical Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
The Politics of Safety by Shannon King
2025 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians
The Cutting-Off Way by Wayne E. Lee
2025 Distinguished Book Award, Society for Military History
I Cannot Write My Life by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst
Shortlisted, 2024 Muslim World Book Award, Muslim World Book Review, Kube Publishing, & the Markfield Institute of Higher Education
The Multiracial Promise by Gordon K. Mantler
2025 Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago Award, Union League Club of Chicago
Culture in the Clinic by Catherine Mas
Shortlisted, 2025 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine
Freedom Was in Sight by Kate Masur and Liz Clarke (Ferris & Ferris Books)
Finalist, 2025 PROSE Award in Humanities: Nonfiction Graphic Novels, Association of American Publishers
Finalist, 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Graphic Novels & Comics)
Radical Solidarity by Lisa G. Materson
Honorable Mention, 2025 Elsa Goveia Book Prize, Association of Caribbean Historians
Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe by Eric L. Muller
Finalist, 2024 The Order of the Coif Book Award, The Order of the Coif
We the Dead by Brian Michael Murphy
2025 Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Surgery and Salvation by Elizabeth O’Brien
2025 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine
Honorable Mention, 2025 Prize for Best Book in the Social Sciences, Mexico Section, Latin American Studies Association
Bedlam in the New World by Christina Ramos
Shortlisted, 2025 William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine
The After by Michael Ramos
Honorable Mention, 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (War & Military)
The Life and Death of Ryan White by Paul M. Renfro
Honorable Mention, 2024 Florida Book Awards in General Nonfiction
A Forgotten Migration by Crystal R. Sanders
2025 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society
2025 Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association SIG 168 Graduate and Postdoctoral Education across the Disciplines
Finalist, 2025 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
White Gloves, Black Nation by Grace Sanders Johnson
2024 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Published by the Author by Bryan Sinche
Finalist, 2025 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize
Finalist, 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Sabor Judío by Ilan Stavans and Margaret E. Boyle (Ferris & Ferris Books)
Finalist, 2024 Jane and Stuart Weitzman Family Award in Food Writing & Cookbooks, National Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Council
Cold War Country by Joseph M. Thompson
2025 Belmont University Curb Music Industry Award for Country Music Book of the Year, International Country Music Conference
Finalist, 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Remembering Conquest by Omar Valerio-Jiménez
2025 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco Non-Fiction Book Award
2025 TACHE Outstanding Book Award for Non-Fiction, Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education
Honorable Mention, 2025 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
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