UNC Press Award Winners
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
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