Summer Award Winners 2021

 

We're delighted to share a list of SUP books that have won awards this summer.

Anthropology

From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology »

MARK ANDERSON

• Winner of the 2020 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize in Historical Anthropology, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology at William & Mary.

Mafia Raj: The Rule of Bosses in South Asia »

LUCIA MICHELUTTI, ASHRAF HOQUE, NICOLAS MARTIN, DAVID PICHERIT, PAUL ROLLIER, ARILD E. RUUD, and CLARINDA STILL

• Longlisted for the 2021 ICAS Book Prize, English – Best Book in the Social Sciences, sponsored by the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS).

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene »

Edited by ANNA L. TSING, JENNIFER DEGER, ALDER SAXENA KELEMAN and FEIFEI ZHOU

Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – Best Adult Non-Fiction Informational E-Book category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Business

The Quest for Attention:Nonprofit Advocacy in a Social Media Age »

CHAO GUO and GREGORY D. SAXTON

• Winner of the 2021 PNP Best Book Award, sponsored by the Public and Non-Profit Division of the Academy of Management.

Organizations for People: Caring Cultures, Basic Needs, and Better Lives »

MICHAEL O'MALLEY and WILLIAM F. BAKER

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan and Why It Matters »

ULRIKE SCHAEDE

• Winner of the 2021 Ohira Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation.

The Power of Being Divisivez: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations »

THOMAS J. ROULET

• Finalist in the 2021 George R. Terry Book Award, sponsored by the Academy of Management.

History

Nothing Happened: A History»

SUSAN A. CRANE

• Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – History (World) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

The Whole World Was Watching: Sport in the Cold War »

Edited by ROBERT EDELMAN and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG

• Winner of the 2021 NASSH Anthologies Award, sponsored by the North American Society for Sport History.

Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis »

TOSHIHIRO HIGUCHI

• Winner of the 2021 The Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, sponsored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).

Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France »

RACHEL MESCH

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

Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution»

PRIYA SATIA

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Law

Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality »

NANCY LEONG

• Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Literary Studies

Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions »

STEVEN CONNOR

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

   

Memoir

A Matter of Death and Life »

IRVIN D. YALOM and MARILYN YALOM

• Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – Aging/Death & Dying category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Middle East Studies

Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic»

NARGES BAJOGHLI

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

• Silver Medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine »

SOPHIA STAMATOPOULOU-ROBBINS

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice »

HEGHNAR ZEITLIAN WATENPAUGH

• Gold Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) – History-Oversized category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Religion

Invisible Companions: Encounters with Imaginary Friends, Gods, Ancestors, and Angels »

BRADLEY WIGGER

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Security Studies

These Islands Are Ours: The Social Construction of Territorial Disputes in Northeast Asia »

ALEXANDER BUKH

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Leadership Decapitation: Strategic Targeting of Terrorist Organizations »

JENNA JORDAN

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

Sociology

Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation »

OLUWAKEMI M. BALOGUN

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals »

KATJA M. GUENTHER

• Winner of the 2021 Animals & Society Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Animals & Society.

Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines »

VICTORIA REYES

• Winner of the 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.

• Runner-Up in the 2021 Edwin H. Sutherland Award, sponsored by the American Society of Criminology.

Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World »

TAHSEEN SHAMS

• Winner of the 2021 Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) – International Migration Section.

• Winner of the 2021 Distinguished Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) – Sociology of Religion Section.

• Winner of the 2021 Asian America Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association (ASA) – Asia and Asian America Section.