Awards by year
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Winner of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by the Brazilian Studies Association.
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Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil Richard Graham 1989 |
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Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, sponsored by the ASA Labor and Labor Movements Section.
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Illicit Flirtations Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Best Book Award, sponsored by the APSA Urban Politics Section.
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Paradise Plundered Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, and Scott A. MacKenzie 2011 |
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Co-winner of the the 2012 Book of the Year Award, sponsored by the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America.
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The Politics of Exclusion The Failure of Race-Neutral Policies in Urban America Leland T. Saito 2009 |
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Winner of the 2012 Adam Gillon Book Prize for Conrad Studies, sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America.
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Our Conrad Constituting American Modernity Peter Lancelot Mallios 2010 |
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Winner of the 2012 Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (non-US category), sponsored by The Society for Military History.
One of four books shortlisted for the 2012 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
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Police Aesthetics Literature, Film, and the Secret Police in Soviet Times Cristina Vatulescu 2010 |
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Winner of the 2012 Karl von Vogelsang Staatspreis, sponsored by the Bundesministerium fuer Wissenschaft und Forschung.
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The Idea of Galicia History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture Larry Wolff 2010 |
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Winner of the 2012 Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association.
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From Kabbalah to Class Struggle Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener Mikhail Krutikov 2010 |
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Winner of the 2012 GSA-DAAD Book Prize, sponsored by the German Studies Association.
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East West Mimesis Auerbach in Turkey Kader Konuk 2010 |
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Winner of the 2012 GSA-DAAD Book Prize, sponsored by the German Studies Association.
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East West Mimesis Auerbach in Turkey Kader Konuk 2010 |
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Shortlisted for the 2012 Comparative Politics Prize, sponsored by the Canadian Political Science Association.
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The Institutional Imperative The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia Erik Martinez Kuhonta 2011 |
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Co-winner (Gold Medal) of the the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards (Autobiography/Memoir Category), sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
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Ghosts of Revolution Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran Shahla Talebi 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 James Holly Hanford Award, sponsored by the Milton Society of America.
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Milton and the Post-Secular Present Ethics, Politics, Terrorism Feisal G. Mohamed 2011 |
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Ten Books We've Loved This Year, Summer Reading Issue, Washington Post Book World
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Marigold The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam James G. Hershberg 2012 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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The New Gilded Age The Critical Inequality Debates of Our Time Edited by David B. Grusky and Tamar Kricheli-Katz 2012 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, sponsored by the AERA Division J.
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Global Citizenship and the University Advancing Social Life and Relations in an Interdependent World Robert A. Rhoads and Katalin Szelényi 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Book Award (Contemporary Issues in Curriculum category), sponsored by the AERA Division B.
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Comparing Special Education Origins to Contemporary Paradoxes John G. Richardson and Justin J.W. Powell 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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The Economics of Excess Addiction, Indulgence, and Social Policy Harold Winter 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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Sanctuary in the Wilderness A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry Alan Mintz 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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Patterns of Protest Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements Catherine Corrigall-Brown 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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Music from a Speeding Train Jewish Literature in Post-Revolution Russia Harriet Murav 2011 |
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Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Award, sponsored by Choice.
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Occupying Power Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan Sarah Kovner 2012 |
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Finalist, Sephardic Culture category in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
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A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi Edited and with an Introduction by Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Abrevaya Stein; Translation, Transliteration, and Glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi 2012 |
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Honorable Mention in the 2012 Smith Book Award, sponsored by the Southern Historical Association, European Section.
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Nationalists Who Feared the Nation Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice Dominique Kirchner Reill 2012 |
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Finalist, Scholarship category in the 2012 National Jewish Book Awards, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
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Pledges of Jewish Allegiance Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis 2012 |
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