Emily K. Abel
Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

• Winner of the 2008 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association.

Michael Quick
George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne

• Winner of the 2008 Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award given by the Victorian Society in America.

Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman
Just Don't Get Sick

• Honorable Mention from the Pacific Sociological Association's PSA Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Edward Morris
An Unexpected Minority

• Winner of the North Central Sociological Association's 2008 Scholarly Achievement Award.

Bambi Haggins
Laughing Mad

• The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
  Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2008 Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award.

Meera Nanda 
Prophets Facing Backward

• Winner of the Professor Hira Lal Gupta Research Award offered by the Indian History Congress.
  

Sharon Harley
Women's Labor in the Global Economy

• Winner of the Association of Black Women Historians 2007 best anthology award.
  
  

Laurie Schaffner
Girls in Trouble with the Law

• Winner of the prestigious 2007 American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for her qualitative research, from the Section on Childhood and Youth.

Sharon Harley 
Women's Labor in the Global Economy 
Speaking in Multiple Voices 

• Winner of the Association of Black Women Historians 2007 best anthology award.

Paul Mathieu
Sex Pots
Eroticism in Ceramics

• The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Ceramist Paul Mathieu of Vancouver will receive the Saidye Bronfman Award for excellence in the fine crafts from the 2007 Governor General's Awards in visual and media arts.
  

Amritjit Singh
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA)

• Amritjit Singh will receive the 2007 MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st Annual MELUS Conference, March 22-25, 2007, at Fresno, CA.

Dora Apel
Memory Effects 
The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing 

• Dora was awarded the 2006 Benard L. Mass Prize for Achievement in Jewish Culture and Continuity

Raymond J. Michalowski 
State-Corporate Crime 
Wrongdoing at the Intersection of Business and Government 

• Raymond was awarded the Division of Critical Criminology Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Society of Criminology meeting in 2006

Protecting Home
Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys' Baseball
Sherri Grasmuck

• Winner of the 2006 Elliot Liebow Award

Be Not Deceived
The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men 
Michelle Wolkomir 

• Distinguished Book Award of the Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association

Be Not Deceived
The Sacred and Sexual Struggles of Gay and Ex-gay Christian Men 
Michelle Wolkomir 

• Distinguished Book Award of the Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association

• Dave Moore Award, 2005

• Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2006

• Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2006

• New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction.

• New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award for Trade Non-Fiction.

• Honorable Mention in the Gustavus Myers 2005 Outstanding Book Awards

Consuming Motherhood
Edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak

• Consuming Motherhood edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak is winner of the Best Current Edited Collection Award in Anthropology & Reproduction from the American Anthropological Association

• 2005 North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award.

• Speaking the Unspeakable by Margaret Abraham has won the American Sociology Association Asia/Asian America Section Book Award.

• Choice Magazine selected Women and Human Rights edited by Marjorie Agosin as one of its Significant University Press titles.

• Race, Rights and the Asian American Experience by Angelo Ancheta received an Honorable Mention in the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

• The New Anthology of Poetry edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, and Thomas Travisano has been named Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

• Nina Baym has won the 2000 Hubbell Award, given annually by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association of America.
• Choice Magazine selected American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation by Nina Baym as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles.

• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife of New Jersey edited by Bruce E. Beans and Larry Niles has been named Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

• Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Awards 
• Winner of the Theatre Library Association Award

• Choice Magazine selected Godly Women by Brenda Brasher as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles.

• How Jews Became White Folk And What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin received an Honorable Mention in the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

• The Architecture of Bergen County, New Jersey by Schuyler Warmflash and T. Robins Brown with photographs by Jim DelGiudice is the winner of a 2001 New Jersey Historic Preservation Award 
• Winner of a Commendation Award from the Bergen County Historic Preservation Advisory Board

• Choice Magazine selected Biology at Work: Rethinking Sexual Equality by Kingsley R. Browne as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles.

• Stephen G. Brush and Gerald Holton were awarded the Joseph Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society. The Prize is awarded each year "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the teaching of history of science." The citation for the award of the Prize to Prof. Brush mentioned the recent publication of a historically-oriented textbook, Physics, The Human Adventure (coauthored with Gerald Holton).

• Overcoming Hearing Aid Fears by John Burkey was named one of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2003 by Library Journal.

• Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won by Kim Butler won the Association of Black Women Historians' 1998 Letitia Woods Brown Publication Prize. 
• Kim Butler's book, Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won has been awarded the American Historical Association's 1999 Wesley-Logan Prize. 

• Meredith Arms Bzdak and Douglas Petersen received an honorable mention from the Save Outdoor Sculpture! Achievement Award. The mission of National SOS! has been, and always will be, inspired by local and individual efforts. The award of $500.00 will be donated to Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission for their ongoing restoration of Waylande Gregory's "Light Dispelling Darkness" in Roosevelt Park, NJ.
• The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance chose Public Sculpture in New Jersey: Monuments to Collective Identity by Meredith Arms Bzdak and Douglas Petersen to receive their book award for 2000. The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance requires that the winner reflects "a new understanding of New Jersey history and culture, and/or demonstrate original research in the use of New Jersey Resources."
• Public Sculpture was also designated as a 2000 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The committee commented that they were impressed with the "creative and well researched approach to collective identity. The notion of [New Jersey] as a 'vast outdoor museum' is enormously compelling and, clearly, richly informative and rewarding."

• The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery by Monica J. Casper won the 1998 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. 

• Sacred Work by Tom Davis received a 2005 Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. These awards honor outstanding contributions that influence the public perception of reproductive rights and women's health through many different mediums.

• Public Dollars, Private Stadiums: The Battle over Building Sports Stadiums by Kevin J. Delaney and Rick Eckstein is the winner of the Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, 2004.
  
• Selected for the “Authors meet critics” session at Eastern Sociological Society.

• Crossing the Gods by Jay Demerath has won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

• The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance chose A Guide to New Jersey's Revolutionary War Trail by Mark DiIonno to receive their book award for 2000. The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance requires that the winner reflects "a new understanding of New Jersey history and culture, and/or demonstrate original research in the use of New Jersey Resources."

• The Second Greatest Disappointment by Karen Dubinsky has been awarded the 1998-1999 Albert B. Corey Prize. The Albert B. Corey Prize is awarded every two years jointly by the Canadian Historical Association and the American Historical Association for the best book dealing with the history of Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries.

• Zion on the Hudson by Firth J. Fabend has been awarded the 2001 New Jersey Author's Award by the New Jersey Academic Alliance. The Award committee praises Zion on the Hudson as an "outstanding scholarly work utilizing diverse primary resources."

• Choice Magazine selected Screening Asian Americans edited by Peter X Feng as one of its Significant University Press titles.

• In recognition of Hunting Tradition in a Changing World, Ann Fienup-Riordan was named Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society.

Chemical Consequences
Environmental Mutagens, Scientist Activism, and the Rise of Genetic Toxicology
Scott Frickel

• Honorable Mention from the Outstanding Publication Award committee from the American Sociological Association section on Environment and Technology.
• Co-winner of the Robert Merton Professional Award given by the American Sociological Association section in science and technology studies
  

• Black Magic by Krin Gabbard was listed as a finalist for the Theatre Library Association's Book Award.

• The Case That Never Dies by Lloyd C. Gardner won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book award for Scholarly Non-Fiction.

• Italian American Writers on New Jersey edited by Jennifer Gillan, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and Edvige Giunta won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book award for Scholarly Fiction.

• The Newark Teacher Strikes by Steve Golin is winner of the Richard P. McCormick 2003 Prize for Scholarly Publication, given by the New Jersey Historical Commission.

• Chalk Up Another One, a collection of cartoons by Sidney Harris, was named as a selection of the Bookspan Science Book Club.

• Illustra by Rutgers University Office of University Relations with a Foreword by Robert Pinsky, Rutgers College '62, Poet Laureate of the United States 1997–2000 is the winner of the Gold Medal for Visual Design in Print from the Council for the Advancement & Support of Education.

• The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance selected Newark's Little Italy: The Vanished First Ward by Michael Immerso to receive their book award for 2000. The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance requires that the winner reflects "a new understanding of New Jersey history and culture, and/or demonstrate original research in the use of New Jersey Resources."

• The American Studies Network, a cooperation of the twenty foremost American Studies Centers in Europe, has awarded The Poetics of Natural History by Christoph Irmscher with the prestigious ASN Book Prize 2000.
• The Poetics of Natural History was also awarded the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division's 1999 Literature and Language Award.

• Suburban Sahibs by S. Mitra Kalita won the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book award for Popular Non-Fiction.

• Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity by Prema A. Kurien is co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2003 Asia/Asian American book award.

• The Rhetoric of Midwifery by Mary M. Lay won the National Council of Teachers of English award for best book in scientific and technical communication.

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature by Susan E. Lederer, Ph.D. has won an honorable mention at the American Association of Museums' publication competition

• The Long Retreat by Arthur S. Lefkowitz has been named the best book on the Revolution published in 1998 by the Board of Governors of the American Revolution Round Table. 
• The Long Retreat was also designated as a 1999 Honor Book by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

• Medicalized Motherhood by Jacquelyn S. Litt received an honorable mention from the American Sociological Association Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Awards Committee.

• Winner of the 2005 AESA Critics’ Choice Award.

• 2004 Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Award.

• Encyclopedia of New Jersey edited by Maxine Lurie and Marc Mappen was recognized by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance as an outstanding reference work. In future years they will include a reference work category of book awards.
• Encyclopedia of New Jersey is designated Best of Reference by The New York Public Library based on its usefulness in New York City's libraries.

• Black Feminist Anthropology edited by Irma McClaurin was named one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles.

• Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2006

• The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology presented Mary Beth Mills, author of Thai Women in the Global Labor Force, with The Leeds Award in Urban Anthropology.

• Into Our Own Hands: The Women’s Health Movement in the United States, 1969–1990 by Sandra Morgen is the winner of the Basker Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology, 2004

• Off the Record by David Morton received the award for the Best Research in the General History of Recorded Sound from The Association for Recorded Sound Collections. This award is designed to recognize those publishing the very best work today in recorded sound research.

• African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000 by Sibyl E. Moses was awarded a 2004 "Certificate of Commendation" by the American Association of State and Local History.
• Chosen  by the New Jersey Center for the Book as one of the twenty New Jersey Notable Books for 1995-2005.

The documentary based on Imagining Robert by Jay Neugeboren is the winner of the National Mental Health Association's 2003 Mental Health Media Awards Competition in the category of entertainment.

Rare and Commonplace Flowers by Carmen Oliveira has been named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table

• Choice Magazine selected The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone by Laura Pappano as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles.

• George Cruikshank's Life, Times and Art, Volumes I and II by Robert L. Patten were selected by the staff of The Guardian (UK) as the best biography of the decade. The Guardian described Patten's "monumental" books as a "triumph of the biographer's art - learned, but lively, obsessed but always objective, and above all managing to convey the sheer raciness of its subject's long life."

• Writing Under the Raj: Gender, Race, and Rape in the British Colonial Imagination, 1830-1947 by Nancy L. Paxton was named one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999.

• The New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance named Greetings from New Jersey as the winner of its book award in the trade category. The committee praised author Helen-Chantal Pike for the book's "unique use of postcards to illuminate New Jersey's history." The committee also stated that the book reflects "a new understanding of New Jersey history and culture (and) demonstrate(s) original research in use of New Jersey resources."

• Laurel Richardson, author of Fields of Play won the Norman Denzin Award for her work from the National Communications Association

• A Guide to Green New Jersey by Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison is the winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award for Non-fiction popular book

• Darwinian Politics by Paul Rubin has been named Outstanding Academic Title, Choice

• The importance of trees and conservation are often brought powerfully into public focus by the media. Each year the National Arbor Day Foundation recognizes outstanding examples of that work as patterns for others to follow. Gayle Brandow Samuels, author of Enduring Roots, has received the National Arbor Day Foundation Media Award for 2001.

• Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine, 1917-1948 by Naomi Shepherd was named one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Titles for 2000.

• Choice Magazine selected The Democracy Owners' Manual by Jim Shultz as one of its Significant University Press titles.
• Winner of a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

• The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith received Honorable Mention in the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
• The Truth That Never Hurts was also selected for the Insight Out Book Club of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

• Al Sullivan, author of Everyday People was named the 2001 New Jersey Press Association Journalist of the Year, as well as receiving First Place in their First Amendment Award and Second Place in their Environmental Award.
• Al Sullivan also received First Place for Column Writing, Second Place for Profile Writing, and Second Place for Public Service from the North Jersey Press Club Awards.

• In Search of Swampland by Ralph Tiner was listed as one of the "Best Science Books for Junior High and High School Readers 1998" in category 330 - Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources - by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

• Race in the College Classroom edited by Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen T. Reddy won the American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Awards!
• Winner of a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

• Bronx Accent by Lloyd Ultan and Barbara Unger won the New York Society Library Book Award for Borough History!
• Winner of a 2001 Hermalyn Award for New York Urban History.

• Digging New Jersey’s Past by Richard Veit won of the 2003 New Jersey Historic Preservation Award
• Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Book Award for Non-fiction scholarly book

• Choice Magazine selected Lesbian Empire: Radical Crosswriting in the Twenties by Gay Wachman as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles.

• Telling is Risky Business by Otto Wahl received an Honorable Mention from The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards in 2000.
• Media Madness by Otto Wahl was the winner of the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America.
• Otto F. Wahl is the winner of the Welcome Back Awards sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, a national program that fights the stigma association with depression and helps the public understand that depression is treatable.

• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System by Paul Wice has been awarded the 2001 New Jersey Author's Award by the New Jersey Academic Alliance. The Award committee praises Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System as a book "which reflects a new understanding of the criminal justice system."

• Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense by Saundra Davis Westervelt was named one of Choice magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999.

• Camp Notes and Other Writings by Mitsuye Yamada received Honorable Mention in the 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

• Does it Run in the Family by Doris T. Zallen was awarded the Al Sturm Award for Excellence in Faculty Research of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Virginia Tech. The Al Sturm award honors excellent work that is significant to a wider scholarly audience.

• Honorable Mention – John Hope Franklin Prize, 2005.