As 2023 comes to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our authors whose work was recognized this year by many of the leading professional associations and organizations in their field. Please join us in celebrating these authors for their dynamic, engaged, and pathbreaking scholarship.
Winners
What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early Ming by Aurelia Campbell, Winner of the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, recognizing outstanding and innovative sole-authored monographs on Chinese art history published in the English language, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies.
Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon by Heather Anne Swanson, Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology.
Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin by Emily O’Gorman, Winner of the inaugural Book Prize from the Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network.
This is an innovative work that tells living histories not just through people, but also through rivers, gardens, berry patches, and more. This dynamic and engaging book pursues an Indigenous-centered methodology that speaks to health and healing, ecology and environment, community and sovereignty, past, present, and future, and beyond.
Western History Association awards committee on A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast
A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast by Charlotte Coté, Winner of the 2023 Donald L. Fixico Award for most innovative book on American Indian and Canadian First Nations history from the Western History Association.
People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America by Robert Michael Morrissey, Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History Association.
Labor under Siege: Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU’s Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era by Harvey Schwartz and Ronald E. Magden, Winner of the 2023 National Indie Excellence Award.
Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China by Yan Liu, Winner of the 2023 William H. Welch Medal, sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Where Dragon Veins Meet: The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe by Stephen H. Whiteman, Winner of the 2023 On the Brinck Book Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning.
Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles by Eric C. Wat, Winner of the 2023 AAAS History Book Award, sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies.
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner, Winner of the Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University.
Honorable Mentions, Shortlisted Books, and Finalists
Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future by James Morton Turner, Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize, the leading international prize for history writing.
There’s a deep protest hidden in the friendly words of this beautifully written book.
Eve Troutt Powell, 2023 Cundill History Prize Juror on Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future
A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast by Charlotte Coté, Honorable Mention for the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award.
Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World by Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade, Second Place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society.
Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York by Tina Shrestha, Honorable Mention for the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies, sponsored by the American Studies Association.
[A] model of community engagement. . . The book’s unique layout reflects the cultural group’s worldview, values, and ethics, making the information accessible to readers in a way that is itself engaging.
American Folklore Society prize committee on Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World
Mumbai Taximen: Autobiographies and Automobilities in India by Tarini Bedi, Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies.
Unshaved: Resistance and Revolution in Women’s Body Hair Politics by Breanne Fahs, Shortlisted for the 2023 ASU IHR Book Award, sponsored by Institute for Humanities Research of Arizona State University.
Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush by Michael B. Dwyer, Honorable Mention for the 2022 CAPE Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Cultural and Political Ecology specialty group of the American Association of Geographers.
A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing by Rachel Silberstein, Honorable Mention for the 2023 Bei Shan Tang Monograph Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies.
Distributed Books
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures edited by Rebecca Epstein and distributed for the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press, Winner of the Silver Medal in Best Art Books and the Bronze Medal in Best Cover Illustration or Photo in the 2023 International Latino Book Awards.
