Award Winners and Nominees
The Savvy Sphinx
Named a 2022 Richard Wall Award Finalist by the Theatre Library Association
From the late 1920s through the thirties, Greta Garbo (1905–1990) was the biggest star in Hollywood. She stopped making films i ...
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Co-winner of the 2025 Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought from the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Named a 2022 finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual ...
Where Misfits Fit
Winner of the 2021 Stanford M. Lyman Distinguished Book Award from Mid-South Sociological Association
All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American ...
Instruments of Empire
WINNER OF THE BEST BOOK AWARD PUBLISHED IN 2021 BY THE FILIPINO STUDIES SECTION IN THE ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States extended its empire ...
Marginalized
Winner of the 2021 Eudora Welty Prize
In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their ...
One Grand Noise
Winner of the 2022 Chicago Folklore Prize
For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world’s most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, B ...
The Comics World
WINNER OF THE 2022 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZE
Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. ...
Side by Side
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2023 Book Award
During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new c ...
Dear Bob
Winner of the 2021 Golden Scroll Awards for Memoir of the Year and Christian Market Book of the Year awarded by the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association
FIRST PLACE WINNER IN THE MEMOIR CATEGORY ...
Invisible Ball of Dreams
Winner of the 2018 John Coates Next Generation Award from the Negro Leagues Research Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research
Although many Americans think of Jackie Robinson when considering ...