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 AWARDS

Listed by date: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990

2007

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González
Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2007
Finalist, Randy Shilts Awards for Gay Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle, 2007

Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America, Volumes 1 & 2
Walter Rideout
Biography Award, Society of Midland Authors, 2007
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2007

Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory
Guy Beiner
Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize for the best study of folklore or folk life in Great Britain and Ireland, Booktrust (UK), 2007

Plum Wine: A Novel
Angela Davis-Gardner
Notable Fiction Book Award, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Committee, 2007
Fiction Award, Southern Independent Bookstore Alliance, 2007

1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels
Tim Miller
Lambda Book Award for Drama/Theatre, Lambda Literary Foundation, 2007

The Tree of Life, Book Three: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942–1944
Chava Rosenfarb
Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, Alberta Literary Awards, Writers Guild of Alberta, 2007

Cry Rape: The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice
Bill Lueders
Courage Award, Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault, 2007

Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority
Shireen Hassim
Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association, 2007

9XM Talking: WHA Radio and Wisconsin Idea
Randall Davidson
Award of Merit, best book on Wisconsin history, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2007

Meaning in Suffering: Caring Practices in the Health Professions, Volume 6
Nancy Johnston & Alwilda Scholler-Jaquish
Winner, Nursing Research Category, American Journal of Nursing, 2007

Listening to the Whispers: Re-thinking Ethics in Healthcare
Christine Sorrell Dinkins and Jeanine Merkle Sorrell
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2007

The Jews in Mussolini’s Italy: From Equality to Persecution
Michele Sarfatti
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2007

Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature
Patrice Rankine
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2007

The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov
Robert Bird
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2007

Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup d'État in Indonesia
John Roosa
Finalist, Social Sciences Book Award, The International Convention of Asian Scholars, 2007

Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina Alidou
Runner-up, Aidoo-Schneider Book Prize, Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association, 2007

Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa
David Gordon
Honorable Mention, Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association, 2007

Door County’s Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park
William H. Tishler
Honor Award, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2007

The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson
Bill Christofferson
Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize for bringing the greatest distinction to the publisher, awarded by the University of Wisconsin Press, 2007

Death of a Department Chair: A Novel
Lynn C. Miller
Book & Jacket Design Honoree, Association of American University Presses, 2007

THE STUDY SMART SERIES
Judi Kesselman-Turkel and Franklynn Peterson
Best Home School Book(s) of the Year, HomeSchoolStuff.net, 2007

2006

Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham
Edited by VeVe A. Clark
and Sara E. Johnson
Top Ten Arts Books of 2006, Booklist, American Library Association

Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students
Christina E. Kramer
Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy, Book Awards of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Door County's Emerald Treasure: A History of Peninsula State Park
William H. Tishler
Honor Award, Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

Death of a Department Chair: A Novel
Lynn C. Miller
Cover Design Honoree, the Association of American University Presses

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González
Finalist, Randy Shilts Awards for Gay Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle

1001 Beds
Tim Miller
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Drama

Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin-De-Siècle
Olga Matich
CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles

Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets
Edited by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub; Translated by Amelia Glaser
CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles

Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
Russell Campbell
CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles

The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1922–1973
Mary E. Daly
CHOICE Award for Outstanding Academic Titles

Jagged With Love
Susanna Childress
Winner, Devil's Kitchen Literary Award

This Tender Place: The Story of a Wetland Year
Laurie Lawlor
General Audience Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

Controversies in Science and Technology, Volume 1
From Maize to Menopause
Edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman,
Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo Handelsman
General Audience Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
Edvard Munch
Edited & Translated by J. Gill Holland
General Audience Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island: And Other Misadventures of a Hollywood Writer-Producer
William Froug
General Audience Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule
Edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia E. Milton, and Leigh A. Payne
Special Interest Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision
Susan Krieger
Special Interest Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

The Tree of Life: A Trilogy of Life in the Lodz Ghetto, Book Two: From the Depths I Call You, 1940–1942
Chava Rosenfarb
Special Interest Honor Book, American Association of School Librarians and Public Library Association

2005

A Symposion of Praise: Horace Returns to Lyric in Odes IV        
Timothy Johnson
2005 Winner of a CHOICE  Outstanding Academic Book Award

Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytic View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 
Avner Falk
2005 Winner of a CHOICE  Outstanding Academic Book Award

The Imperial Sublime: A Russian Poetics of Empire                 Harsha Ram
2005 Winner of a CHOICE  Outstanding Academic Book Award

Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition    
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
2005 Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for Philosophy/Thought, awarded by the Koret Foundation
        
Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina     
Vladimir Alexandrov
2005 Finalist for Best Book of Literary/Cultural Scholarship, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages

Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina     
Vladimir Alexandrov
2006 Winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Slavic Literary Studies

The Imperial Sublime: Russian Poetics of Empire
Harsha Ram
2006 Honorable Mention for the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Slavic Literary Studies

The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882
Michael De Nie
2005 Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Science awarded by the American Conference for Irish Studies

Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil
Severino J. Albuquerque
2005 Co-winner of the Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award, given by the Brazilian Studies Association for best book in Brazilian Studies

Indian Mounds of Wisconsin                     
Robert A. Birmingham and Leslie E. Eisenberg
2005 Winner of the Elizabeth S. Steinberg Award for the most Distinguished Regional Book published 2001–2003 by the University of Wisconsin Press, awarded by the University of Wisconsin Press

Edward Field (author of The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag)
2005 Winner of the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded by the Publishing Triangle

Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition    
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for Religion/Spirituality

Wonderlands: Good Gay Travel Writing                   
Edited by Raphael Kadushin
2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for Nonfiction Anthology

Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology                   
John F. Galliher, Wayne H. Brekhus, David P. Keys
2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for Biography

How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
David Gere
2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for Drama/Theater

A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture
Will Fellows
2005 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, for LGBT Studies

Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe             
Jo Ortel
2005 Honorable Mention, Kenneth Kingery Scholarly Book Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers

Lords of the Ring: The Triumph and Tragedy of College Boxing's Greatest Team
Doug Moe
2005 Honorable Mention, August Derleth Book-length Non-fiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers

Kings in their Castles: Photographs of Queer Men at Home
Tom Atwood
2005 Best Photo Book, InsightOut Books

Star Lake Saloon & Housekeeping Cottages
Sara Rath
2005 Honoree, Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket and Journal Show

Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times
Calvin Fremling
2005 Finalist, Minnesota Book Awards

Kathleen Stokker
2005 Winner, St. Olav’s Medal awarded by the Royal Norwegian Embassy                                                                                   

A Sail to Great Island
Alan Feldman
2005 Finalist, National Jewish Book Awards, Poetry category

2005 DISTRIBUTED TITLES:

Eat Smart in India                                                  
Joan Peterson and Indu Menon
2005 Silver Medalist for Travel Book of the Year, awarded by ForeWord Magazine

Eat Smart in India                                                  
Joan Peterson and Indu Menon
2005 Finalist, Travel Book of the Year, Independent Publisher Awards

Voices of History, 1941–1945                                                       
Bradley G. Larson
2005 Winner, Certificate of Commendation, American Association for the State and Local History

2004

Society of Midland Authors Book Award was awarded to A Match Made in Hell by Larry Stillman

Selected for The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About from the American Library Association A Match Made in Hell by Larry Stillman

Selected for The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About from the American Library Association Schubert's Winterreise by Franz Schubert.

Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize Show And Tell: New & Selected Poems by Jim Daniels

2004 Outstanding Academic Title from Choice Magazine
A History of the French New Wave Cinema Richard Neupert
Worship and Wilderness Lloyd Burton
Republic of Egos Michael Seidman

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, At the Creation: Myth, Reality, and the Origin of the Harley–Davidson Motorcycle, 1901–1909 by Herbert Wagner. This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, How I Became a Human Being by Mark O'Brien and Gillian Kendall

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, Schubert's Winterreise by Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, Voices from the Federal Theatre, Bonnie Nelson Schwartz and the Educational Film Center 

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, Beijing by Philip Gambone

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, Suspicion by Laura Grimaldi

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, A Match Made in Hell by Larry Stillman

Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries, Return from Berlin by Robert Grilley

2004 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association and American Association of School Libraries was given to Harriet Tubman by Jean M. Humez

Winner of the 2004 Kovacs Book Award of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies is The Imperial Screen Peter High. For more details see the site Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Finalist, Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Book in the Area of Film or Broadcasting was The Imperial Screen by Peter High.

Winner of the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry from the Publishing Triangle is The Room Where I Was Born by Brian Teare

Finalist for the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Foundation
Beijing by Philip Gambone
Telling Moments by Lynda Hall
Cleopatra's Wedding Present by Robert Tewdwr Moss

Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction from the Publishing Triangle
Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Memoir/Autobiography
Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman

2004 Winner of the Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Competition
Gordon MacQuarrie by Keith Crowley. This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

2004 Winner of the Juvenile Nonfiction Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Competition
Native People of Wisconsin by Patty Loew. This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

The History of Alta California received the Norman Neuerburg Award for Distinguished Research and Writing on the History of Early California. This award from the Historical Society of Southern California is awarded for the best book on early California history prior to the Gold Rush.




2003

Winner, 2003 Lambda Award for Autobiography from the Lambda Literary Foundation
Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story Betty Berzon

Finalist, 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Biography
Glenway Westcott Personally Jerry Rosco

2003 Stonewall Award Honor Book for nonfiction, American Library Association GLBT Round Table
Glenway Westcott Personally, Jerry Rosco

Winner of 2003 August Derleth Book-Length Nonfiction Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers
A Castle in the Backyard: The Dream of a House in France Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden

2003 Outstanding University Press Book Citation, American Association of School Libraries
The 23rd Psalm George Lucius Salton, with Anna Salton

2003 Outstanding University Press Book Citation, the Public Library Association
A Castle in the Backyard Betsy Draine and Michael Hinden

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
Minor Omissions Tobias Hecht

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
In Praise of Black Women Simone Schwarz-Bart and André Schwarz-Bart

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, American Association of School Libraries and the Public Library Association
Beyond Earth Day Gaylord Nelson, with Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, American Association of School Libraries
Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch Helen McGavran Corneli

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
Festa Helen Barolini

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
Elizabeth Taylor: The Queen and I Gianni Bozzacchi

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
Letters to J.D. Salinger Chris Kubica and Will Hochman

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, Public Library Association
The Purple Land W.H. Hudson

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, American Association of School Libraries and the Public Library Association
Botticelli Blue Skies Merrill Joan Gerber

2003 Best University Press Books Citation, American Association of School Libraries and the Public Library Association
Hidden: A Sister and Brother in Nazi Poland Fay Walker and Leo Rosen

2003 DiDonato and Fante Literary Award by the Order of the Sons of Italy in America
Chiaroscuro Helen Barolini

2003 Woman of the Year Award, sponsored by the Italian Welfare League
Chiaroscuro Helen Barolini
Festa Helen Barolini

2003 Errol Hill Award for Best Book in Black Theatre Studies from the American Society for Theatre Research
Dancing Many Drums Thomas DeFrantz

2003 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in the category of Public Interest & Creative Works
First, Do No Harm Nancy Diekelmann

Honorable Mention for the 2003 Myers Outstanding Book Awards
In Praise of Black Women, Vol. 2 Simone Schwarz-Bart

Other awards in 2003:

Bruce Snider is the winner of the 2003 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, selected by Kelly Cherry, for his book The Year We Studied Women. Brian Teare is the winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Kelly Cherry, for his book The Room Where I Was Born. To learn about other winners of these annual prizes visit Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry winners and Brittingham Prize in Poetry winners.

Gaylord Nelson, author of Beyond Earth Day, was presented with the NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award, Friday, January 31, 2003 at the National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment in Washington, DC.

Dick Ringler's book Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrimsson: Poet and Scientist was named to the top ten university press titles for Fall 2003 by Book Sense.

Zane Williams has been honored with Outstanding Achievement recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards committee for his book Double Take: A Rephotographic Survey of Madison.

Helen Corneli has been honored with Outstanding Achievement recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards committee for her book Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom

Intensive Bulgarian: A Textbook, Volumes 1 & 2 by Ronelle Alexander with the assistance of Olga Mladenova is a finalist for the award for Best Contribution to Language Pedagogy, given by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East-European Languages (AATSEEL). The winner was announced at the annual meeting of AATSEEL in late December 2003.


Cleopatra's Wedding Present, by Robert Tewdwr Moss, Beijing, by Philip Gambone, and Telling Moments, edited by Lynda Hall, and also the hardcover edition of Naked in the Promised Land, by Lillian Faderman have all been selected as finalists for Lambda Literary Awards!


2002

2002 Selected as an Honor Book by the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Awards of the American Library Association
You're Not from Around Here, Are You? Louise A. Blum

Winner of a CHOICE 2002 Outstanding Academic Book Award
Dancing Many Drums Edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz

Winner of a CHOICE 2002 Outstanding Academic Book Award
A Russian Psyche Alyssa W. Dinega

Finalist for the 2002 Theatre Library Association Award
Early American Cinema in Transition Charlie Keil

Winner of a 2002 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award
Habeas Codfish Barry M. Levenson

A CCBC Choice, 2002: notable books selected by the Cooperative Children's Book Center Indian Nations of Wisconsin Patty Loew, This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

Winner of a 2002 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award
Indian Nations of Wisconsin Patty Loew. This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

2002 Silver Award Winner, Short Fiction Book of the Year, ForeWord magazine
The Student Body: Short Stories about College Students and Professors
Edited by John McNally

2002 Best Book Award, North American Guild of Beer Writers
Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs Robin Shepard

2002 Finalist for Gay Autobiography, Lambda Literary Foundation Awards
Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean William Storandt

2002 Winner of the 2002 W. Ross Winterowd Award for Best Book of the Year in Composition Theory
Out of the Dead House Susan Wells

2002 Honor Book, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Book Awards,
American Library Association
Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS Edited by Edmund White

Winner of the 2002 Ellis/Henderson Award for Outdoor Writing from the Council for Wisconsin Writers
Small Creatures and Ordinary Places Allen M. Young, Illustrated by Judith Huf

2002 Winner of the Publishers Service Award, Lambda Literary Foundation
Editor Raphael Kadushin and the University of Wisconsin Press

2002 Winner of the Washington State Book Award from the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary Rebecca Brown

Other 2002 awards:

From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills
Notes on the New Irish
Eamonn Wall
Co-Winner, Michael Durkan Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism, American Conference for Irish Studies


2001

2001 John D. Bell Book Award, Bulgarian Studies Association
Intensive Bulgarian, Volumes 1& 2 Ronelle Alexander

Finalist for the 2001 Lambda Literary Awards
Stars in My Eyes Don Bachardy

Winner of 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies
The Isherwood Century Edited with an Introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman, With a foreword by Armistead Maupin

Winner of the 2001 Milwaukee County Historical Society Gambrinus Prize for the Best Book on Milwaukee History
A Milwaukee Woman's Life on the Left Meta Berger, Edited by Kimberly Swanson
This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

Winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2001 Prize for Book of the Year in the category of Environment
Fishing the Great Lakes Margaret Beattie Bogue

Winner of a 2001 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award
Fishing the Great Lakes Margaret Beattie Bogue

Winner of a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Book Award
Fishing the Great Lakes Margaret Beattie Bogue

2001 Honor Book, American Library Association GLBT Roundtable
Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman Suzanne Jill Levine

Finalist for the 2001 Theatre Library Association Award
Emile de Antonio Randolph Lewis

2001 Notable Document of the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association
History Just Ahead Sarah Davis McBride. This book is published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, see their Web site for details and ordering.

Winner of the 2001 Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics,
American Political Science Association
Women and Politics in Uganda Aili Mari Tripp

Co-winner of the American Conference for Irish Studies' 2001 Michael Durkan Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism
From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills Eamonn Wall

2001 Finalist for the Stonewall Book Awards of the American Library Association
Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman Suzanne Jill Levine


2000

Winner of the 2000 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Pushkin's Tatiana Olga Hasty

Winner of the 2000 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars
The Young John Muir Steven J. Holmes

Winner of the 2000 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977 Stanley G. Payne

Winner of the 2000 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Women & Politics in Uganda Aili Mari Tripp

2000 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
An Underground Life Gad Beck

Other awards in 2000:

The Young John Muir  Steven J. Holmes
Winner 2000–Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars




1999

1999 Winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize of the American Society for Ethnohistory
Pathways of Memory and Power Thomas A. Abercrombie

Winner of a 1999 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Pathways of Memory and Power Thomas A. Abercrombie

1999 Bronze Award Winner for Gay/Lesbian Books, Foreword Magazine
An Underground Life
Gad Beck, Written with Frank Heibert; Translated by Allison Brown

1999 Finalist for Best Book in Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
Realizing Metaphors David M. Bethea

Winner of a 1999 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
The Good-Bye Window Harriet Brown

Winner of a 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
Sir Robert Chambers Thomas M. Curley

Winner of a 1999 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Awards
Dead End Kids Mark S. Fleisher

Winner of the 1999 Milwaukee County Historical Society Gambrinus Prize for the Best Book on Milwaukee History
When Government Was Good Henry S. Reuss

Winner of 1999 Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award
The Crusade for Justice Ernesto B. Vigil

1999 Selected as an Honor Book by the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Awards of the American Library Association
Loss within Loss Edited by Edmund White

1999 Bronze Award Winner for Gay/Lesbian Books from ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
An Underground Life Gad Beck

Other awards in 1999:

Illumination and Night Glare
Carson McCullers
Finalist 1999–Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards




1998

1998 Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize
In Search of Authenticity Regina Bendix

Winner of the 1998 Aaron T. Beck Institute award
Exploring Forgiveness Edited by Robert D. Enright and Joanna North,

Winner of a 1998 Annual Independent Publisher Book Award
Ono Ono Girl's Hula Carolyn Lei-lanilau

Winner of a 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award
Ono Ono Girl's Hula Carolyn Lei-lanilau

Winner of the 1998 H. W. Wilson Award for achievement by a professional book indexer
Dead Wrong Michael A. Mello

Other awards in 1998:

Bardo
Suzanne Paola
Finalist 1998–Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards


1997

Winner of a 1997 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award
Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface Juanita Brunk

Winner of the 1997 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
Brief Landing on the Earth's Surface Juanita Brunk

Winner of a Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Intolerance & Human Rights
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Winner of the 1997 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Modern Language Association
The Rhetoric of Reason James Crosswhite

1997 Notable Book List of the American Library Association
The Legend of Light Bob Hicok

Winner of the 1997 Chicago Folklore Prize
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity Neni Panourgiá

Winner of the 1997 History of Women in Science Book Prize
Fetal Rights, Women's Rights Suzanne Uttaro Samuels

Winner of a 1997 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award Fragments in Us Dennis Trudell

1997 Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Books on Photography and the Moving Image
The World According to Hollywood, 1918­1939 Ruth Vasey

1997 Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
Farm Boys Will Fellows


1996

Best Regional Books List 1996, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Farm Boys
Collected and edited by Will Fellows

Winner of a 1996 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
From Outlaw to Classic Alan Golding

Winner of a 1996 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
The Print in the Western World Linda C. Hults

1996 Winner of the First Book Award of the American Ethnological Society
Dancing with the Devil José E. Limón

Winner of a 1996 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
People of the Plow James C. McCann

Winner of the 1996 Pitre Prize of the Centro Internationale di Etnostoria
Fragments of Death, Fables of Identity Neni Panourgiá

Winner of the 1996 Award for Excellence in Writing Personal History,
Central/Northwoods Wisconsin Grassroots Assn for Historic Preservation
Nell's Story Nell Peters, with Robert Peters

Winner of the 1996 Award for Excellence in Writing Personal History,
Central/Northwoods Wisconsin Grassroots Assn for Historic Preservation
For You, Lili Marlene Robert Peters

Winner of the 1996 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
Old and New Testaments Lynn Powell

Other awards in 1996:

People of the Plow by James C. McCann was a finalist for the 1996–Herskovits Award, African Studies Association


1995

Winner of a 1995 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Critical Theories of the State Clyde W. Barrow

Winner of the 1995 Herbert Eugene Bolton Award of the Conference on Latin American History
The Limits of Racial Domination R. Douglas Cope

1995 Winner of a 1995 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Beggars and Thieves Mark S. Fleisher

1995 Winner of the 1995 Society of Midland Authors Book Award
The Legend of Light Bob Hicok

1995 Winner of a Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Intolerance & Human Rights
Race in America Edited by Herbert Hill and James E. Jones, Jr.

1995 Winner of the 1998 Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (formerly the Small Press Book Awards)
Ono Ono Girl's Hula Carolyn Lei-lanilau

1995 Winner of the 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Awards
Ono Ono Girl's Hula Carolyn Lei-lanilau

Winner of the 1995 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
The Unbeliever Lisa Lewis

1995 Winner of the First Book Award of the American Ethnological Society
Dancing with the Devil José E. Limón

Winner of the 1995 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, American Anthropological Assn
Dancing with the Devil José E. Limón

Winner of the 1995 Eugene M. Kayden Press Book Award for excellence in humanities
The Rulings of the Night Gregory G. Maskarinec

Winner of the 1995 Birendra Pragya-alankar decoration form the King of Nepal
The Rulings of the Night Gregory G. Maskarinec

Winner of the 1995 Council for Wisconsin Writers Award for Best Scholarly Book
On Wisconsin Women Genevieve McBride

Winner of the 1995 Norma Farber First Book Award
Old and New Testaments Lynn Powell

Winner of the 1995 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award
The Tangled Web They Weave Ivan L. Preston

Winner of a 1995 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Constitutional History of the American Revolution John Phillip Reid


1994

Winner of the 1994 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association
No Condition Is Permanent Sara S. Berry

1994 Silver Medal Winner of the California Book Award for Poetry, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club of California
Mrs. Dumpty Chana Bloch

Winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Zea Mexican Diary Kamau Brathwaite

Winner of the 1994 John C. Zacharis First Book Award awarded by Ploughshares Magazine
Sweet Ruin Tony Hoagland

1994 250 Best Health Sciences Books of the Year (1998), selected by Doody's Rating Service Guide
Sickness and Health in America Edited by Judith Walzer Leavitt and Ronald L. Numbers

Winner of a 1994 State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award of Merit
On Wisconsin Women Genevieve McBride

1994 Second Place, Chicago Folklore Prize
Story Harold Scheub


1993

Winner of the 1993 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize
Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888–1988 George Reid Andrews

1993 Winner of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award of Merit
Breweries of Wisconsin Jerry Apps (This book is now in its second edition, see Breweries of Wisconsin, second edition.)

Winner of the 1993 John Nicholas Brown Prize, The Medieval Academy of America
Chaucer's Sexual Poetics Carolyn Dinshaw

1993 Winner of the William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association
Leaving Home before Marriage Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider

Winner of the 1993 Theatre Library Association Award
Shared Pleasures Douglas Gomery

Winner of the 1993 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
Sweet Ruin Tony Hoagland

Winner of the 1993 C. Herman Pritchett Award, American Political Science Assn
Let's Make a Deal Herbert M. Kritzer

Winner of the 1993 State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award of Merit
Between Memory and Reality Jane Marie Pederson

Winner of a 1993 Milwaukee County Historical Society Annual Book Award
Seeds of Crisis Edited by John L. Rury and Frank A. Cassell

Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize
Magical Arrows Gregory Schrempp

Winner of the 1993 State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award of Merit
The Timber Wolf in Wisconsin by Richard P. Thiel, With a Foreword by L. David Mech

1993 Winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Cultural Map of Wisconsin by David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, Onno Brouwer, Steven Hoelscher, Joshua Hane

Winner of a 1993 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
The World and the Word by Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, Edited by Harold Scheub


1992

Winner of a 1992 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Gaiety Transfigured by David Bergman

1992 Winner of a Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Intolerance & Human Rights
Gaiety Transfigured by David Bergman

Winner of the 1992 Council for Wisconsin Writers Award for Best Scholarly Book
Watch on the Right by J. David Hoeveler, Jr.

Winner of a 1992 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
The Art of Medieval French Romance by Douglas Kelly

Winner of a 1992 Wisconsin Library Association Outstanding Achievement Award
The River of the Mother of God
Aldo Leopold, Edited by Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott

Winner of a 1992 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Partial Visions Richard M. Merelman

Winner of the 1992 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
Chaucer and the Subject of History Lee Patterson

Winner of a 1992 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Chaucer and the Subject of History Lee Patterson

Winner of the 1992 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration History Society
Between Memory and Reality by Jane Marie Pederson

1992 Winner of a Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Intolerance & Human Rights
Mixed Blood by Paul R. Spickard

Winner of a 1992 State Historical Society of Wisconsin Book Award of Merit
Indian Names on Wisconsin's Map by Virgil J. Vogel


1991

Winner of the 1991 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
Salt by Renée Ashley

Winner of the 1991 Critics Choice Award
Universities and the Capitalist State by Clyde W. Barrow

Co-winner of the 1991 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association
Power and Performance by Johannes Fabian

Winner of the 1991 Chicago Women in Publishing Award
Thanks to God and the Revolution by Dianne Walta Hart

Winner of the 1991 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Books Award
Work and Control in a Peasant Economy by Elias Mandala


1990

Winner of the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
Slow Joy by Stephanie Marlis

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