UNC Press Award Winners

New Award Winners
Landscapes of Care by Thurka Sangaramoorthy
Honorable Mention, 2023 SANA Book Prize, Society for the Anthropology of North America
Consent in the Presence of Force by Emily A. Owens
2023 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association
Border Bodies by Bernadine Marie Hernández
Honorable Mention, 2023 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association
Ybor City by Sarah McNamara
2023 Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association
Seeing Red by Michael John Witgen (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
2023 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association
2023 State History Award in the Books: University & Commercial Press Category, Historical Society of Michigan
Placental Politics by Christine Taitano DeLisle
2023 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association
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
White Gloves, Black Nation by Grace Sanders Johnson
2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize
Sharing Yerba Mate by Rebekah E. Pite
USA Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Alcohol Free Drinks, Digital, and Latin America – Published Outside Latin America)
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
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
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
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
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
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
Closing the Golden Door by Anna Pegler-Gordon
Honorable Mention, 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History
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
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
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