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Awards


2012

Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship 2012
Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership:The Six Nations since 1800
by Laurence M. Hauptman
2011

Choice Outstanding Title 2011
Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in the Middle East Peace Process
by Anthony Wanis-St. John
Choice Outstanding Title 2011
Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist
by Kamran Talattof
2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist
Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization after Auschwitz
by Catherine D. Chatterley
King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award
The World Through the Eyes of Angels
by Mahmoud Saeed; Translated by Samuel Salter, Zahra Jishi, and Rafah Abuinnab
2010

Awarded Finalist in the Society of Midland Authors Awards for Adult Nonfiction
Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television, Expanded Second Edition
by Walter Podrazik

National Arab American Book Award
Loom
by Thérèse Soukar Chehade


2009

King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award
The Pistachio Seller
by Reem Bassiouney; Translated from the Arabic by Osman Nusairi

Adirondack Book Award for Non-Fiction, Adirondack Writing Center
Great Experiment in Conservation: Voices from the Adirondack Park
Edited by William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, and Ross S. Whaley

Choice Outstanding Title
Eminent Persians: The Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979
by Abbas Milani

Choice Outstanding Title
Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language
by Abdelfattah Kilito

Choice Outstanding Title
Hijab and the Republic
by Bronwyn Winter


2008

National Jewish Book Awards
Emil Fackenheim: A Jewishi Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust
by David Patterson

Arab American National Book award for Fiction
Remember Me to Lebanon
by Evelyn Shakir

Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Translation
Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment
by David Dollenmayer

American Institute of Iranian Studies Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize
Cup of Sin: Selected Poems
by Farzanah Milani

Persian Heritage Foundation Latifeh Yarshater Award
Representing the Unpresentable
by Negar Mottahedeh


2007

King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Translation of Arabic Literature Award 2007
Blood Test: A Novel
by Abbas Beydoun; Translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss

Canadian Jewish Book Award: The Abraham and Eve Trapunski Prize in Yiddish Literature and Translation from Yiddish from the Koffler Centre for the Arts
Representing the Immigrant Experience
by Marc Miller

Cecil B. Currey Association for Third World Studies Book-Length Publications Award
Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter?
by Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad
Adirondack Center for Writing Best Fiction
Lucy’s Eggs: Stories and a Novella
by Rick Henry

Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title
Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States
by Alan E. Bessette et al.

Selected as "One of the Top 20 Books of 2007" by the San Antonio Express
Does the Land Remember Me: A Memoir of Palestine
by Aziz Shihab

AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
Women in Korean Zen: Lives and Practices
by Martine Batchelor and Son’gyong Sunim


2006

Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture
American Conference for Irish Studies
SengoÍdelc: Old Irish for Beginners
by David Stifter

Selected by ForeWord Magazine as one of the "Big 10 Exceptional Books from University Presses"
Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems
by Talat S. Halman

Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran
by Denise Natali

Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Its Origins and Development
by Wadie Jwaideh


2005

Winner of Middle East Naguib Mahfouz Prize
Al-Nagid Award
Disciples of Passion
by Hoda Barakat, translated by Marilyn Booth

AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show
The Adirondack Atlas
by Jerry Jenkins with Andy Keal

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
In the Path of Hizbullah
by Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
The Encyclopedia of New York State
by Peter Eisenstadt


2004

Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature
American Conference for Irish Studies
Anglo-Irish Autobiography: Class, Gender, and the Forms of Narrative
by Elizabeth Grubgeld

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book
American Conference for Irish Studies
Irish Orientalism: A Literary and Intellectual History
by Joseph Lennon

Winner of the Ewell L. Newman Book Award
Winslow Homer and the Pictorial Press
by David Tatham

Booklist Alex Award for "One of year’s best young adult books"
Boys: Stories and a Novella
by David Lloyd

Choice Outstanding Academic Book
Polish-Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years
by Eugenia Prokop-Janiec and translated by Abe Shenitzer


2003

Robert Peterson Recognition Award from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Negro Leagues Committee
Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary
by Michael Lomax

Tuttleman Foundation Award of Gratz College
The Musical Tradition of the Eastern European Synagogue, Volume 1, History and Definition
by Sholom Kalib

American Association for State and Local History Award
Salmon River Odyssey: The Town of Richland and Its Hamlets
by Hope Irvin Marston

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and its Reception in America
by Alan L. Mintz

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
The Author and His Doubles: Essays on Classical Arabic Culture
by Abdelfattah Kilito, translated by Michael Cooperson

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
From Slogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam War Era
by Stephen A. Kent

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles
"O Sisters Ain’t You Happy?"; Gender, Family, and Community Among the Harvard and Shirley Shakers, 1781-1918
by Suzanne R. Thurman


2002

Tuttleman Foundation Book Award of Gratz College
New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity
by Eli Lederhendler


2001

Koret Jewish Book Award for History
New York Jews and the Decline of Urban Ethnicity
by Eli Lederhendler

Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture
American Conference for Irish Studies
Crossing Highbridge: A Memoir of Irish America
by Maureen Waters


2000

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award
The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader
by Joachim Neugroschel

Smith/Wynkoop Book Award
Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy
by Douglas M. Strong


1999

Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Sports and the American Jew
by Steven A. Riess

Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Wildflowers of New York in Color
by William Chapman et al.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title
God, Man, and Devil: Yiddish Plays in Translation
by Nahma Sandrow

AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show
Haudenosaunee: Portraits of the Firekeepers, the Onondaga Nation
by Toba Pato Tucker


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