UNC Press Award Winners

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New Award Winners

Food Power Politics by Bobby J. Smith II

Finalist, 2024 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Reference, History and Scholarship)

A Man of Bad Reputation by Drew A. Swanson

2023 North Caroliniana Society Book Award

Fit Citizens by Ava Purkiss

2024 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians

Finalist, 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize

Surgery and Salvation by Elizabeth O’Brien

Judy Ewell Award, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Honorable Mention, Thomas McGann Book Prize, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

2024 Best Book Award, Nineteenth-Century Section, Latin American Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2024 Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians

An Army Afire by Beth Bailey

2024 Distinguished Book Award in American History, Society for Military History

Oconaluftee by Elizabeth Giddens

Finalist, 2023 Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association

Finalist, 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, Asheville Museum of History

The Multiracial Promise by Gordon K. Mantler

2024 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians

Cross-Border Cosmopolitans by Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey

Honorable Mention, 2024 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians

Finalist, 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize

Finalist, 2024 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize, Canadian Historical Association

Ambivalent Affinities by Jennifer Dominique Jones

Honorable Mention, 2024 James A. Rawley Award, Organization of American Historians

Finalist, 2024 Lambda Literary Award, LGBTQ Studies

Citizens of a Stolen Land by Stephen Kantrowitz

Honorable Mention, 2024 James A. Rawley Award, Organization of American Historians

White Gloves, Black Nation by Grace Sanders Johnson

Honorable Mention, 2024 Mary Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians

Finalist, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society

Dreamland by Carly Goodman

2024 First Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Ybor City by Sarah McNamara

Honorable Mention, 2024 First Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Bronze Medal, 2023 Florida Book Awards, Florida Nonfiction

Making the Latino South by Cecilia Márquez

Honorable Mention, 2024 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

This Is Our Home by Whitney Nell Stewart

2024 Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters

The Famous Lady Lovers by Cookie Woolner

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award, Publishing Triangle

Sharing Yerba Mate by Rebekah E. Pite

2024 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies

Far from the Rooftop of the World by Amy Yee

Finalist, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Travel)

Finalist, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Political and Social Sciences)

Feeding Washington’s Army by Ricardo A. Herrera

Finalist, American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History

The Heart of Hell by Jeffry D. Wert

Finalist, American Battlefield Trust Book Prize for History

The Souls of Womenfolk by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

2022 Award for Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion

The Race for America by R. J. Boutelle

Finalist, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society

Awakening the Ashes by Marlene L. Daut

Finalist, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, African American Intellectual History Society

The Strikers of Coachella by Christian O. Paiz

Honorable Mention, 2023 Book of the Year Award, International Labor History Association

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Recent Award Winners

Planetary Specters by Neel Ahuja

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary

Borders of Violence and Justice by Brian D. Behnken

Honorable Mention, 2023 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Meade at Gettysburg by Kent Masterson Brown

2022 Fletcher Pratt Award, Civil War Round Table of New York

Committed by Susan Burch

Finalist, 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize (History Category), American Council of Learned Societies

Something in These Hills by John M. Coggeshall

Finalist, 2022 Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association

From Here to Equality, Second Edition by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen

2023 Outstanding Book Award, Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, American Sociological Association

Placental Politics by Christine Taitano DeLisle

2023 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association

Underwriters of the United States by Hannah Farber (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

2023 Hagley Prize in Business History, Business History Conference

Caribeños at the Table by Melissa Fuster

2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society First Book Award

State of Disaster by Maria Cristina Garcia

Honorable Mention, 2023 Theodore Saloutos Book Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Guaraná by Seth Garfield

World Winner and Brazil Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Drinks History

World Winner and Brazil Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, Drinks History Non Alcoholic

Honorable Mention, 2023 Sergio Buarque de Holanda Prize for Best Book in Social Sciences, Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association

Honorable Mention, 2023 Roberto Reis Book Award, Brazilian Studies Association

Free Joan Little by Christina Greene

2023 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians

Honorable Mention, 2023 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American Historians

Border Bodies by Bernadine Marie Hernández

Honorable Mention, 2023 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association

Making Our Future by Emily Hilliard

Finalist, 2022 Weatherford Award for Nonfiction, Berea College and Appalachian Studies Association

O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town by Berkley Hudson

2023 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award (Life Writing)

Dreaming the Present by Irvin J. Hunt

Shortlisted, 2023 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award

Administering Freedom by Dale Kretz

2023 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, Organization of American Historians

Benjamin Franklin Butler by Elizabeth D. Leonard

2023 John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia

Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia by Elizabeth Lhost

2023 Karwaan Book Award

Rude Citizenship by Larisa Kingston Mann

Certificate of Merit, 2023 Best Historical Research in Country, Folk, Roots, or World Music, Association for Recorded Sound Collections

Ybor City by Sarah McNamara

2023 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association

From the New Deal to the War on Schools by Daniel S. Moak

Best Book on Education Politics and Policy Award, Education Politics and Policy Section, American Political Science Association

Consent in the Presence of Force by Emily A. Owens

2023 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association

Finalist, 2024 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Book Prize

Closing the Golden Door by Anna Pegler-Gordon

Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History

Sharing Yerba Mate by Rebekah E. Pite

USA Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Alcohol Free Drinks, Digital, and Latin America – Published Outside Latin America)

Bedlam in the New World by Christina Ramos

2023 Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences

2022 Bandelier/Lavrin Book Prize, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Honorable Mention, Alfred B. Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

Shortlisted, 2023 Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Representing Women by Beth Reingold

2023 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award, State Politics and Policy Section, American Political Science Association

White Gloves, Black Nation by Grace Sanders Johnson

2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize

Landscapes of Care by Thurka Sangaramoorthy

Honorable Mention, 2023 SANA Book Prize, Society for the Anthropology of North America

Dancing with the Revolution by Elizabeth B. Schwall

2023 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance Research, Dance Studies Association

Detention Empire by Kristina Shull

Honorable Mention, 2023 First Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Bonds of War by David K. Thomson

2023 Wiley-Silver Prize, Center for Civil War Research

Honorable Mention, 2023 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, Organization of American Historians

The Heart of Hell by Jeffry D. Wert

2023 Richard Barksdale Harwell Award, Atlanta Civil War Round Table

2023 Dan & Marilyn Laney Book Prize, Austin Civil War Round Table

To Address You as My Friend edited by Jonathan W. White

2022 Best Historical Materials, Reference and User Service Association, an affiliate of the American Library Association

Indigenuity by Caroline Wigginton

Shortlisted, 2023 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Eating While Black by Psyche A. Williams-Forson

2023 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Food Issues and Advocacy)

Seeing Red by Michael John Witgen (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Finalist, 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History

2023 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians

2023 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association

2023 State History Award in the Books: University & Commercial Press Category, Historical Society of Michigan