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Awards

 

NYU Press Awards FY 2008 (September 2007-August 2008)

2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth Award for the best book in feminist popular culture.

• T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Pimps Up, Ho’s Down

2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award.

• David A. Gerber, Authors of Their Lives

2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award

• Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. Local Democracy Under Siege

2007 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, given by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language of Association to the best book of the year in gay and lesbian studies.

• Robert McRuer, Crip Theory

2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Award for Arts Writing - Finalist

• William Jelani Cobb, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic

2008 Association of American University Presses Award for Jacket Design

2007 Merriam Prize, given by the Society for Ethnomusicology

• Kyra Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner

• Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises

2007 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award
presented by the American Society of Criminology

• Aaron Kupchik, Judging Juveniles

2007 American Society of Criminology Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology

• Aaron Kupchik, Judging Juveniles

NYU Press Awards FY 2007 (September 2006-August 2007)

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007

God Hates Fags by Michael Cobb

Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins

Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic by Sina Askin

Long Before Stonewall edited by Thomas A. Foster

Sperm Counts by Lisa Jean Moore

2006 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice Magazine. These awards reflect the best in scholarly titles reviewed by Choice and bring with it the extraordinary recognition of the academic library community:

• Nancy Foner, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration

2006 Honorable Mention for MLA Prize in US Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, given annually by the Modern Language Association:

• Michelle Habell-Pallan,  Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture

2006 Runner-up for The Julian Steward Award, given each year by the The Anthropology and the Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association to honor anthropological research in ecological and environmental topics:

• Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town

2006 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus Foundation.  The purpose of this annual award is to acknowledge the excellence and multicultural diversity of American literature, and is given to the book that best upholds this purpose:  

• Thomas J. Ferraro, Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America

2006 National Jewish Book Award in the Modern Jewish Thought category, given each year by the Jewish Book Council.  The award is recognized as the most prestigious in Jewish literature:

• Shuly Rubin Schwartz, The Rabbi’s Wife: The Rebbetzin in American Jewish Life

2007 Katherine S. Kovacs Book Award given annually by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies to the best and most cutting-edge book in film and media studies:

• Henry Jenkins: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

2007 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, in the category of Trade Illustrated book design:

• Edited by Brandon Stosuy, Up is Up, But So is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992

2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award Finalist

• Kyra Gaunt, The Games Black Girls Play

2007 American Sociological Association Marxist Section Book Award

• Corey Dolgon, The End of the Hamptons

2006 Thomas J. Lyon Award for the Best Book of Criticism on a Western Literary topic

• John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America

2007 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary Studies, presented by the Western Literature Association

• John-Michael Rivera, The Emergence of Mexican America