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Awards and prizes

Each year, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is proud to receive a range of awards. Below is a list of the awards and prizes in the worlds of academia and educational publishing that we recorded since the listing in the last Cambridge University Press annual report.

Rachel Adcock, Kate Aughterson, Claire Bowditch, Elaine Hobby, Alan James Hogarth, Anita Pacheco, Aphra Behn: Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4. The Plays 1682–1696, 2021 Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly Edition, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)

Ari Adut, Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere, winner 2022 Theory Prize for Outstanding Book, American Sociological Association

Pascale Aebischer, Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance, winner David Bradby Award, TaPRA

Muhsin J al-Musawi, The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry, winner 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award – Arabic Culture in Other Languages

Nosheen Ali, Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan’s Northern Frontier, 2022 AIPS Book Prize and Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize

Caitlin Andrews-Lee, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo, winner 2021 Best Book in the Social Sciences Award from the Southern Cone Studies Section of Latin American Studies Association

Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption, winner 2022 Alice Amsden Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, honourable mention 2021 Barrington Moore Book Award, American Sociological Association and winner 2022 Douglass North Best Book Award, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics

Jackson W Armstrong, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches, joint winner RHS Whitfield Prize, British and Irish History, Royal Historical Society

César J Ayala and Laird W Bergad, Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940, winner 2021 Manuel Moreno Fraginals Prize, Caribbean Economic History Association

S Erdem Aytaç and Susan C Stokes, Why Bother?: Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests, winner 2020 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award, International Society of Political Psychology

Yesenia Barragan, Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific, winner 2022 Best Book Award, 19th Century Section, Latin American Studies Association and special mention 2022 Michael Jimenez Prize, Colombia Section, Latin American Studies Association

Katherine Bersch, When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America, winner 2020 Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association

Anthony Michael Bertelli, Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government, winner 2022 SPAR Award for the Best Book Published in Public Administration

Vestert Borger, The Currency of Solidarity: Constitutional Transformation during the Euro Crisis, winner 2021 Best Book Prize, UACES (University Association for Contemporary European Studies)

Christina Boswell, Manufacturing Political Trust: Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy, winner 2021 PSA McKenzie Prize, Political Studies Association

Will Bowers, The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823, finalist 2021 British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize, British Association for Romantic Studies

Anna K Boucher & Justin Gest, Crossroads: Comparative Immigration Regimes in a World of Demographic Change, winner 2019 BISA Best Book on the International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diasporas, honourable mention 2019 ECPR Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research and honourable mention 2019 Migration and Citizenship Section Book Prize, American Political Science Association

Peter Boxall, The Prosthetic Imagination: A History of the Novel as Artificial Life, winner 2020 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association

Kurt Braddock, Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization, winner 2021 The Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, National Communication Association

Larissa Brewer-García, Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, winner 2021 Friedrich Katz Prize, American Historical Association

Giorgio Buccellati, A Critique of Archaeological Reason: Structural, Digital, and Philosophical Aspects of the Excavated Record, 2021 Balzan Prize for Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

Donald Burrows, Helen Coffey, John Greenacombe & Anthony Hicks: George Frideric Handel: Collected Documents, Volume No. 4, 1742–1750, winner 2021 C B Oldman Award, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centre, UK & Ireland

Lenka Bustikova, Extreme Reactions: Radical Right Mobilization in Eastern Europe, winner 2020 David Center Award, The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

Rafael Cardoso, Modernity in Black and White: Art and Image, Race and Identity in Brazil, 1890–1945, winner 2021 Roberto Reis Senior Author Award, Brazilian Studies Association

Joan E Cashin, War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War, winner 2021 Firebird
Book Award in the History / United States category, Speak Up Talk Radio

Alex Chase-Levenson, The Yellow Flag: Quarantine and the British Mediterranean World, 1780–1860, winner 2021 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies

Erin Aeran Chung, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, winner 2021 Section on Asia and Asian America’s Transnational Asia Book Award, American Sociological Association and winner 2021 Research Excellence, Korea Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea Award

Joe Cleary, The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization, winner 2021 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, American Conference for Irish Studies

Peter D Clift and Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers, and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia, runner up 2020 Choice (History) Awards, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Jeffrey R Collins, In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience, winner 2021 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, American Historical Association

Jennifer Cooke, Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity, winner 2020 The BACLS Monograph Prize, The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

Jennifer Cooke, The New Feminist Literary Studies, winner 2020 The BACLS Edited Collection Prize, The British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies

Jonathan Craft & John Halligan, Advising Governments in the Westminster Tradition: Policy Advisory Systems in Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, winner 2021 Charles H Levine Memorial Book, International Political Science Association

Aileen R Das, Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus, winner 2021 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

Deepa Das Acevedo, Beyond the Algorithm: Qualitative Insights for Gig Work Regulation, honourable mention 2021 Book Prize, Society for the Anthropology of Work

Arunima Datta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya, joint winner 2021 Sara A Whaley Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association and winner 2022 Gita Chaudhuri Book Prize, Western Association of Women Historians

Lauren D Davenport, Politics beyond Black and White: Biracial Identity and Attitudes in America, winner 2019 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award, International Society of Political Psychology

Beatrice de Graaf, Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815, 2022 Arenberg Prize for European History, Arenberg Foundation

Julia Dehm, Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, 2021 Award to an Early Career Researcher, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand

Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana, winner 2021 John Phillip Reid Book Award, American Society for Legal History and co-winner 2021 Order of the Coif Annual Book Award

Ignacio de la Rasilla, International Law and History: Modern Interfaces, winner 2021 Han Depei Law Prize

François Delerue, Cyber Operations and International Law, winner 2021 Book Prize, European Society of International Law (ESIL)

Christian De Vos, Complementarity, Catalysts, Compliance: The International Criminal Court in Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, winner 2021 Book of the Year, American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA)

John P R Eicher, Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age, finalist 2020 Book Prize, Waterloo Centre for German Studies

John P R Eicher, German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age, honourable mention 2021 GSA / DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association

Antje Ellermann, The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States, co-winner 2022 Charles Levine Prize, International Political Science Association

John H Esling, Scott R Moisik, Allison Benner & Lise Crevier- Buchman, Voice Quality: The Laryngeal Articulator Model, winner 2021 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, Linguistic Society
of America

Jeff Forret, Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts, winner 2021 Leadership in History Award – Large Press, American Association for State and Local History

Frederico Freitas, Nationalizing Nature: Iguazu Falls and National Parks at the Brazil-Argentina Border, honourable mention 2022 Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association and honourable mention 2022 Best Book in Social Sciences – Brazil, Latin American Studies Association

Christina Fuhrmann, Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses: From Mozart to Bellini, winner 2017 Diana McVeagh Prize, North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA)

Samuel Fury and Childs Daly, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, honourable mention 2021 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History

Patricia Gaborik, Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics, American winner for Non-fiction, The Bridge Book Award 2021

Ariel Glucklich, The Joy of Religion: Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life, 2021 International Society for Science & Religion Book Prize

Yanilda María González, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, co-winner 2021 Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the Best Book on Latin American Politics and Institutions, Latin American Studies Association

Erika Graham-Goering, Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany, finalist 2021 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society

Jaclyn Granick, International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War, winner 2021 National Jewish Book Award for Writing based on Archival Material, Jewish Book Council

Jean-Christophe Graz, The Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services, winner 2021 EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Nicole Grimes, Brahms’s Elegies: The Poetics of Loss in Nineteenth- Century German Culture, honourable mention 2022 Danijela Kulezic-Wilson Book Prize, Society for Musicology in Ireland

Ursula Hackett, America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State, winner 2020-2021 Richard Neustadt Book Prize, Political Studies Association

Shahla Haeri, The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender, finalist 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion – Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion

Lara Harb, Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature, finalist 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion – Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion
and finalist 2021 Sheikh Zayd Book Award for Arab Culture in Other Languages

Mai Hassan, Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya, winner 2021 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize, African Studies Association

Katie M Hemphill, Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915, winner 2021 Mary Kelley Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers & John Wallace, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments, winner 2020 C. B. Oldman Award, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (UK & Ireland)

Joan A Holladay, Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages, winner 2022 Karen Gould Book Prize in Art History, Medieval Academy of America

Alisha C Holland, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America, honourable mention 2019 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research

Lise Morjé Howard, Power in Peacekeeping, winner 2021 International Security Studies Section Best Book Award, International Studies Association

Bruce J Hunt, Imperial Science: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in the Victorian British Empire, winner 2021 Houck Award for Documentation, Antique Wireless Association

Liz Jackson, Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions, winner 2021 Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association

Christopher Johnston, Howard Lavine, and Christopher Federico, Open versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution, winner 2018 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award, International Society of Political Psychology

Nathan Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War, co-winner 2021 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology

James E Kelly, English Convents in Catholic Europe, c.1600–1800, finalist 2021 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize

Rao Kotamarthi, Katharine Hayhoe, Linda O Mearns, Donald Wuebbles, Jennifer Jacobs and Jennifer Jurado, Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections: From Global Change to Local Impacts, winner 2021 Choice (Science and Technology) Awards, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Andrew Kraebel, Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation, winner 2021 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize

Dilek Kurban, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict, special mention 2021 Book Prize, ICON-S (International Society of Public Law)

Ahmet T Kuru, Islam: Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, honourable mention 2021 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study
of Religion

Heonik Kwon, After the Korean War: An Intimate History, winner 2022 James B Palais Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Amy Lai, The Right To Parody: Comparative Analysis of Copyright and Free Speech, 2021 Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Medieval Meteorology: Forecasting the Weather from Aristotle to the Almanac, runner up 2020 Choice (History) Awards, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Thomas Leahy, The Intelligence War against the IRA, winner 2021 Brian Farrell book prize, Political Studies Association of Ireland

Janet I Lewis, How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond, winner 2021 Book of the Year Prize, Conflict Research Society and winner 2022 ISA Annual Best Book Award, International Studies Association

Marco Longobardo, The Use of Armed Forces in Occupied Territory, 12th Paul Reuter Prize Award, International Committee of the Red Cross

Zeina Maasri, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties, winner 2021 British-Kuwait Friendship Society
Book Prize

Elizabeth Jane Macpherson, Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience, winner 2021 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities, New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi

Sumi Madhok, Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice, winner 2022 BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize

Nivi Manchanda, Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge, winner 2021 L. H. M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize, British International Studies Association

Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History, winner 2021 Best Second Monograph in Victorian Studies, British Association for Victorian Studies Prize

Simon Martin, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE, winner 2021 James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association

Mark Fathi Massoud, Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics, winner 2022 Hart–SLSA Book Prize, Socio-Legal Studies Association and winner 2022 Distinguished Book Award – Sociology of Religion, American Sociological Association

Daniel C Mattingly, The Art of Political Control in China, winner 2021 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, Yale Macmillan Center

Meighen McCrae, Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917–1918, winner 2021 Distinguished Book Award –First Book, Society of Military History and winner 2020 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize, World War One Historical Association (WW1HA)

Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, winner 2021 Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies

Khalid Medani, Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa, co-winner 2022 Best Book on MENA Politics by a Senior Scholar, American Political Science Association

Ari Mermelstein, Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, finalist 2021 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship, Jewish Book Council

Laurence Monnais, The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals, winner 2021 EAHMH Book Prize, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health

Maria Monnheimer, Due Diligence Obligations in International Human Rights Law, Hermann Mosler Prize 2020 / 21, German Society of International Law

Dana Moss, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes, winner Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award – Social Movements & Collective Behavior, co-winner Best Book Award – Global and Transnational Sociology, and honourable mention, Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict 2022 Book Award, American Sociological Association

Soumen Mukherjee, Ismailism and Islam in Modern South Asia: Community and Identity in the Age of Religious Internationals, 2021 Karim and Rosemin Karim Book Prize

David Newheiser, Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith, ATF Literary Trust Book Prize for 2021, Australian Theological Forum

Sara Niedzwiecki, Uneven Social Policies: The Politics of Subnational Variation in Latin America, winner 2021 Best Book Award, International Public Policy Association

Alasia Nuti, Injustice and the Reproduction of History: Structural Inequalities, Gender and Redress, honourable mention 2021 Political Theory Book Prize, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)

Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa, winner 2021 Joan Robinson Best Book Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)

Jens David Ohlin, Election Interference: International Law and the Future of Democracy, winner 2021 Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Ellen Oliensis, Loving Writing / Ovid’s Amores, winner 2021 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

Virginia Oliveros, Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina, co-winner 2021 Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the Best Book on Latin American Politics and Institutions, Latin American Studies Association and co-winner 2022 Charles Levine Prize, International Political Science Association

Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History, winner 2022 Monograph Prize, European Society of International Law

Catherine O’Rourke, Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law, winner 2021 Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, Irish Association of Law Teachers

Guy Ortolano, Thatcher’s Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town, Best Book in Non- North American Urban History, Urban History Association

Sebastian N Page, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War, winner 2022 Tom Watson Brown Book Award, Society of Civil War Historians

Ishita Pande, Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937, winner 2021 Grace Abbott Book Prize, Society for the History of Children and Youth and winner 2021 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association

Tommaso Pavone, The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe, winner 2021 Dissertation Award, European Union Studies Association, winner 2020 Dissertation Prize, Law & Society Association, winner 2020 Edward S. Corwin Award and honourable mention 2020 Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award, American Political Science Association

Steven Pfaff & Michael Hechter, The Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail, co-winner 2021 Allan Sharlin Award, Social Science History Association

Kristin Victoria Magistrelli Plys, Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India, winner 2022 Global Sociology Book Award, Canadian Sociological Association

Adrian Poole, The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James: The Princess Casamassima, winner 2021 Prize for a Scholarly Edition, Modern Language Association of America

Markus Prior, Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest, winner 2020 Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology

Ato Quayson, Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, winner 2021, Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism

Annette Yoshiko Reed, Demons, Angels, & Writing in Ancient Judaism, winner 2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in Scholarship, Association of American Publishers

Nina Reiners, Transnational Lawmaking Coalitions for Human Rights, winner 2022 Book Award, Academic Council on the United Nations System

Gillian Russell, The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century: Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting, winner 2021 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, British Academy

Michael A Schoeppner, Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America, winner 2021 James A. Rawley Award, Southern Historical Association

Teren Sevea, Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya, Harry J Benda Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Gregory Shaffer, Emerging Powers and the World Trading System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law, winner 2021 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association

Esme Shirlow, Judging at the Interface: Deference to State Decision- Making Authority in International Adjudication, honourable mention 2022 Book Award, Australian Legal Research Awards

M W Shores, The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo, Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature, Culture and Art and School of Languages and Cultures Early Career Researcher Prize for Best Book

Erik Skare, A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad: Faith, Awareness, and Revolution in the Middle East, winner 2021 Academic Award, Palestine Book Awards

Hayden R Smith, Carolina’s Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1860, finalist 2020 George C. Rogers Jr. Award, South Carolina Historical Society

J Christopher Soper and Joel S Fetzer, Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective, winner 2020 Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post- Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890, winner 2021 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society

Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley and Céline Bellot, Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People, winner 2021 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association

Sabina Tanović, Designing Memory: The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present, finalist 2021 First Book Award, The Memory Studies Association

Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico, co-winner 2021 Democracy and Autocracy Section Best Book Award and winner 2020 Donna Lee Van Cott Award for the Best Book on Latin American Politics and Institutions, Latin American Studies Association

Ntina Tzouvala, Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law, Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, American Society of International Law and winner 2022 Australian Legal Research Book Award, Australian Legal Research Awards

Case Watkins, Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia’s Dendê Coast, winner 2021 Roberto Reis Book Award for First Monograph, Brazilian Studies Association and honourable mention 2021 Meridian Book Award, American Association of Geographers

Jordan T Watkins, Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America, winner 2022 Annual Book Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History

Steven Webster, American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics, co-winner 2021 Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology

Hazel Wilkinson, Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book, winner Isabel MacCaffrey Prize 2020, International Spenser Society

Andreas Willi, Origins of the Greek Verb, winner 2021 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies

Lee B Wilson, Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantation America, 1660–1783, finalist 2021 George C. Rogers Jr. Book Award, South Carolina Historical Society

Avner Wishnitzer, As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark, a 2021 Book of the Year, History Today

Katie Woolaston, Ecological Vulnerability: The Law and Governance of Human-Wildlife Relationships, winner 2022 Clay Morgan Award, Western Political Science Association

Lauren Working, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis, joint winner 2021 Whitfield Book Prize for British and Irish History, Royal Historical Society

Fernando Zúñiga and Seppo Kittilä, Grammatical Voice, winner 2022 André Martinet Book Award, Societas Linguistica Europaea

APSA Awards

American Political Science Association awards and prizes honour the work of scholars who make outstanding contributions to political science research and teaching.

Michael Albertus, Property without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap, honourable mention 2022 Democracy & Autocracy Best Book Prize

Caitlin Andrews-Lee, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo, winner 2022 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Organizations and Parties Section

Marius R Busemeyer, Julian L Garritzmann and Erik Neimanns, A Loud But Noisy Signal?: Public Opinion & Education Reform in Western Europe, winner 2022 Best Book on Education Politics & Education Policy

Erin Aeran Chung, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, honourable mention 2021 Best Book Award on Migration and Citizenship

Allan Colbern and S Karthick Ramakrishnan, Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States, winner 2021 Best Book Award on Migration and Citizenship

Simone Dietrich, States, Markets, and Foreign Aid, co-winner 2022 International Collaboration Section Best Book Award

Barbara Elias, Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, winner Best International Security Book by a Non-tenured Faculty Member

David Fortunato, The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance, winner 2022 European Politics and Society Section Best Book Award

Yanilda María González, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America, winner 2022 Luebbert Best Book Award

Raphaël Lefèvre, Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli, co-winner 2022 MENA Politics Section Best Book Award (Junior Scholar)

Avital Livny, Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World, co-winner 2022 MENA Politics Section Best Book Award (Junior Scholar)

Mark Fathi Massoud, Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics, winner 2022 Ralph J. Bunche Award

Eduardo Moncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America, honourable mention 2022 Giovanni Sartori Award

Cigdem V Sirin, Nicholas A Valentino and José D Villalobos, Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, winner 2022 Best Book Award

Andreas Wiedemann, Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies, winner 2022 William Riker Best Book Award, American Political Science Association and winner 2022 Class and Inequality Section Best Book Award

Martha Wilfahrt, Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa, honourable mention 2022 Giovanni Sartori Award, American Political Science Association

PROSE Awards

Association of American Publishers Awards for professional and scholarly excellence.

 

2021

John Martin-Joy, Diagnosing from a Distance: Debates over Libel Law, Media, and Psychiatric Ethics from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, finalist Award for Clinical Medicine

Steve Sussman, The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions, finalist Award for Nursing and Allied Health

 

2022

Ben Adcock and Anders C Hansen, Compressive Imaging: Structure, Sampling, Learning, finalist Award for Computing & Information Sciences

Jack Baker, Brendon Bradley and Peter Stafford, Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis, finalist Award for Earth Science

Pierre Baldi, Deep Learning in Science, winner Award for Computing & Information Sciences

C P Burgess, Introduction to Effective Field Theory: Thinking Effectively about Hierarchies of Scale, winner Award for Chemistry / Physics

Vašek Chvátal, The Discrete Mathematical Charms of Paul Erdfős: A Simple Introduction, finalist Award for Mathematics

Rebekah Compton, Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence, finalist Award for Art History & Criticism

James B Grotberg, Biofluid Mechanics: Analysis and Applications, finalist Award for Engineering & Technology

Andy Haines and Howard Frumkin, Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene, finalist Award for Environmental Science

T M Helliwell and V V Sahakian, Modern Classical Mechanics, finalist Award for Chemistry / Physics

Michael A Hill, Michael J Hopkins and Douglas C Ravenel, Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem, winner Award for Mathematics

Thomas C Hull, Origametry: Mathematical Methods in Paper Folding, finalist Award for Mathematics

George Ikkos and Nick Bouras, Mind, State, and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960-2010, finalist Award for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology

Ronald Kleiss, Quantum Field Theory: A Diagrammatic Approach, finalist Award for Chemistry / Physics

Professor Ruth Mace, Evolutionary Human Sciences, finalist Award for Biological Anthropology, Ancient History & Archaeology

Mark Fathi Massoud, Shari‘a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics, finalist Award for Government & Politics

Robert Morstein-Marx, Julius Caesar and the Roman People, winner Award for Biological Anthropology, Ancient History & Archaeology

Jon Stewart, Hegel’s Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution, winner Award for Philosophy

Michael Taborsky, Michael A Cant and Jan Komdeur, The Evolution of Social Behaviour, finalist Award for Biological Sciences

Shane Weller, The Idea of Europe, finalist Award for Literature

2021 CHOICE Outstanding Titles

Association of College & Research Libraries selection of the best scholarly titles reviewed by Choice magazine.

Michael Anderson, Michele Cecchini, Elias Mossialos and Jonathan North, Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses

Peter Baldwin, Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe

Christoph Bartneck, Tony Belpaeme, Friederike Eyssel, Takayuki Kanda, Merel Keijsers and Selma Šabanović, Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction

Steven Belletto, The Beats: A Literary History

Amy R Bloch and Daniel M Zolli, The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Giovanni Carbone and Alessandro Pellegata, Political Leadership in Africa: Leaders and Development South of the Sahara

Jennifer Cooke, The New Feminist Literary Studies

Marwa Daoudy, The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security

Francine L Dolins, Christopher A Shaffer, Leila M Porter, Jena R Hickey and Nathan P Nibbelink, Spatial Analysis in Field Primatology: Applying GIS at Varying Scales

Erik J Engstrom and Robert Huckfeldt, Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism Since the New Deal

Lukas Erne and Devani Singh, Bel Vedere, or The Garden of Muses: An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book

Chiara Formichi, Islam and Asia: A History

Jonathan Fox, Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me: Why Governments Discriminate against Religious Minorities

Michele Goodwin, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis and Steffen Werther, Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief

Thomas Hegghammer, The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad

Kevin D Hunt, Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister Species

Stephen J King, The Arab Winter: Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists

A D Lee, Warfare in the Roman World

Sonia Massai, Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance

Sally McConnell-Ginet, Words Matter: Meaning and Power

Karolina M Milewicz, Constitutionalizing World Politics: The Logic of Democratic Power and the Unintended Consequences of International Treaty Making

Kelsey P Norman, Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Nathaniel K Powell, France’s Wars in Chad: Military Intervention and Decolonization in Africa

William Quinn and John D Turner, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Guido Rings and Sebastian Rasinger, The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication

Mathias Risse, On Justice: Philosophy, History, Foundations

Alexandre Roulin, Barn Owls: Evolution and Ecology

Brian F Schaffner, Jesse H Rhodes and Raymond J La Raja, Hometown Inequality: Race, Class, and Representation in American Local Politics

Hugh Richard Slotten, Ronald L Numbers and David N Livingstone, The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 8. Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context

Torben Spaak and Patricia Mindus, The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism

Hendrik Spruyt, The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies

Melanie Benson Taylor, The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

John K Thornton, A History of West Central Africa to 1850

Jorge E Viñuales, The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50: An Assessment of the Fundamental Principles of International Law

Kevin Werbach, After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity

Ilan Wurman, The Second Founding: An Introduction to the Fourteenth Amendment

Educational Publishing Awards Australia

Australian Publishers Association annual awards for excellence in the education sector.

 

2021

Michael Adcock, Ashley Keith Pratt, Adrian De Fanti et al, Cambridge Humanities for Victoria Years 7-10, highly commended Secondary Student Resource – Junior English / Humanities / Languages / Arts / Technologies / Health and Physical Education

Stephen Clarke, Jonathon Dallimore et al., History Transformed Stage 4&5, finalist Secondary Student Resource – Junior English / Humanities / Languages / Arts / Technologies / Health and Physical Education

Marilyn Fleer, Play in the Early Years, finalist Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – print

Anne Forbes, Vinesh Chandra, Linda Pfeiffer et al., STEM Education in the Primary School: A Teacher’s Toolkit, winner Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – blended learning, and, winner Outstanding Tertiary / VET

Anthony Marinac, Caroline Hart, Rhianna Chisholm et al. Learning Law, finalist Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – blended learning

 

2022

Cambridge University Press, winner Publisher of the Year Award – Secondary

Jeanne Allen, Simone White, Learning to Teach in a New Era, Second Edition, finalist Tertiary Teaching and Learning Resource – Blended Learning - (Wholly Australian)

Nick Arnott, Mary Cruickshank, Penny Palidelis The Road to Nursing, Second Edition, finalist Tertiary Teaching and Learning Resource – Blended Learning - (Wholly Australian)

Odette Best, Brownwyn Fredericks, Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care, 3rd edition, winner Teaching and Learning Resource – Print - (Wholly Australian)

Richard Broome, Ashley Keith Pratt, et al., Analysing Australian History, highly commended Secondary Student Resource – Senior – English / Humanities / Languages / Arts / Technologies / Health and Physical Education

Kendra Bruseker, Elizabeth Howard, et al., Cambridge Society and Culture Stage 6, winner Secondary Student Resource – Senior – English / Humanities / Languages / Arts / Technologies / Health and Physical Education

Simon Maaser et al., Cambridge Senior Science Biology VCE, finalist Secondary Student Resource – Senior – Mathematics / Science

ELTons 2021

British Council ELTons awards for innovation in English language teaching.

Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment English, Fun Skills, finalist Award for Excellence in Course Innovation

Sarah Mercer and Zoltan Dornyei, Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms, finalist Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources

Chris Sowton, Teaching in Challenging Circumstances, joint winner ELTons Judges’ Commendation for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and, finalist Award for Innovation in Teacher Resource