For the University of Washington Press, one measure of the impact of our work is the remarkable number of award-winning books we’ve published, recognized by professional associations and organizations for their dynamic, engaged, and pathbreaking scholarship. As 2022 comes to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the UW Press authors whose work has been recognized this year.

Please join us in celebrating the following award winners, honorable mentions, and finalists!

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Winners

Carving Status at Kŭmgangsan: Elite Graffiti in Premodern Korea by Maya K.H. Stiller, Winner of the Patricia Buckley Ebrey Prize for a distinguished book on East Asian history prior to 1800, sponsored by the American Historical Association

Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan 說 苑 by Liu Xiang; translated by Eric Henry, Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work

“In this translation with facing Chinese text, Eric Henry has succeeded in bringing across not only a single text but also a genre and the feeling of a period. Readers of English can now imagine themselves in the position of a Chinese scholar of long ago with an extraordinarily well-stocked mind, interrogating history for its lessons.”

—Modern Language Association awards committee

The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance by Karma R. Chávez, Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Latina & Latino Communication Studies Division and the Diamond Anniversary Book Award sponsored by the National Communication Association

“[The Borders of AIDS] is a carefully threaded study that is intersectional in its examination of race, nationality, citizenship, and AIDS through the lens of quarantine. Chávez’s work builds on and extends existing scholarship related to sovereignty, citizenship, and rhetorical racialization…The book advances the concept of ‘alienizing logic’ as a way to think about the intersectional impact of AIDS on queer, migrant populations of color, but also as a logic that is fundamental to the DNA of the United States.”

—National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Book Award committee

Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India by Tarini Bedi, Second Prize Winner of the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology

Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe by Stephen H. Whiteman, Winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, sponsored by the Center for Cultural Landscapes, UVA

This book…fills a monumental gap in the art, architectural, and landscape histories of the early modern world, providing a long-overdue interdisciplinary discussion of the Qing emperor whose reign and works overlapped with those of better-studied contemporaries.

—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice by Hilda Lloréns, Winner of the Frank Bonilla Book Award from the Puerto Rican Studies Association and Winner of the Gregory Bateson Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology

“Making Livable Worlds is the kind of dynamic, engaged, intersectional ethnographic writing we so desperately need.”

—Society for Cultural Anthropology Gregory Bateson Book Prize committee

Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market by Meng Zhang, Winner of the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award from the Forest History Society

Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice by Harlan Weaver, Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China by Nicholas K. Menzies, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor by Juned Shaikh, and The $16 Taco: Contested Geographies of Food, Ethnicity, and Gentrification by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli were named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2022

Honorable Mentions, Longlisted Books, and Finalists

Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Columbia by Daniel Tubb and Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers by Megan A. Styles received an Honorable Mention for the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) Book Prize

Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific Botany in China by Nicholas K. Menzies was longlisted for the SHNH Natural History Book Prize from the Society for the History of Natural History

Fear No Man: Don James, the ’91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Quest for a National Football Championship by Mike Gastineau was named a Washington State Book Award Finalist in the General Nonfiction category by the Washington Center for the Book and Seattle Public Library

Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination edited by Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal received an Honorable Mention for the Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection

“Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination is a timely, inventive, and pathbreaking collection. Bertram D. Ashe and Ilka Saal’s collection has been edited to show both range and depth, offering fresh insights and theoretically informed ways of understanding a new body of Black cultural production and situating that body with dexterity and impressive scholarly expertise in fraught questions of the moment.”

—Modern Language Association awards committee

Latinx Photography in the United States by Elizabeth Ferrer was shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present

Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market by Meng Zhang received an Honorable Mention for the ISCLH First Biennial Book Prize from the International Society for Chinese Law and History

Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe by Stephen H. Whiteman, Honorable Mention for the Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians

What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming by Aurelia Campbell, Honorable Mention for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians

Winning Distributed Books

Textiles in Burman Culture by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, published by Silkworm Books, was named the Winner of the R.L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award, sponsored by the Textile Society of America