Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders and Sexualities 2023

Announcements

Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S23XBCHW through our virtual exhibit ».

Recent Award Winners

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Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

SONIA AHSAN-TIRMIZI

Winner of the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Honorable Mention for the 2022 AMEA Bi-annual Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA).
Honorable Mention for the 2022 AMEWS Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

SA’ED ATSHAN

Honorable Mention in the 2020 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association.
Honorable Mention in the 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, sponsored by the Association for Queer Anthropology.

The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan

KATHRYN BABAYAN

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis

EVE DARIAN-SMITH

Winner of the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.
Silver Medal in the Environment/Ecology Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).

Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America

GUY DAVIDSON

Winner of the 2019 AUHE Prize for Literary Scholarship, sponsored by Australian University Heads of English.

It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity

SONIA GOLLANCE

Finalist of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.

Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran

NILOOFAR HAERI

Winner of the 2021 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Constructive-Reflective Studies, sponsored by the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Winner of the 2021 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

Shortlisted for the 2022 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and The Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA).

Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army

Kate Imy

Winner of the 2020 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA) Pacific Coast Branch.
Honorable Mention in the 2020 Best International Security Book by a Non-Tenured Faculty Member Award, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) – International Security Section (ISS).

Winner of the 2020 Stansky Book Prize, sponsored by the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS).

Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA

NADIA Y. KIM

Winner of the 2022 Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship, sponsored by Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
Winner of the 2023 AAAS Best Book in Social Sciences Award, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies.

Winner of the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award, sponsored by the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA).
Honorable Mention for the 2023 Sociology of the Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) – Bodies and Embodiment Section.

Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France

RACHEL MESCH

Finalist in the 2020 American Library in Paris Book Award, sponsored by the American Library in Paris.

Silver Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States

RHACEL SALAZAR PARREÑAS

Honorable Mention in the 2022 Alice Amsden Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Winner of the 2023 ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

SARA PURSLEY

Honorable Mention in the 2020 AMEWS Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.

Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope

VICTORIA REYES

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Humanist Sociology.
Gold Medal in the Essay Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).

A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil

CASSIA ROTH

Winner of the 2021 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, sponsored by the Southern Historical Association, Latin American and Caribbean Section.
Winner of the 2021 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico

ELYSE ONA SINGER