Awards and Reviews
NYU Press has award-winning lists in sociology, law, cultural and American studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and communication, literary studies, and psychology. In the last year, we won the Rachel Carson Award (from the Society for the Social Studies of Science), the Michael J. Hindelang Book Award (from the American Society of Criminology), an LGBT Studies Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation, and a National Jewish Book Award from the Jewish Book Council.
NYU Press titles win awards in Latin American Studies, Asian American Studies, Jewish Studies, Black Studies, and Media Studies. They are reviewed in both scholarly journals and in trade publications, such as The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the New York Post, and, this season, in Elle Magazine.
Below is a list of some of the most recent award-winning books from NYU Press
- Dolores Ines Casillas, Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-language Radio and Public Advocacy – Book of the Year presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
- Ben Kirshner, Youth Activism in an Era of Educational Inequality – Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence
- Rachel Lee, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies – awarded Best Book in Cultural Studies by Association for Asian American Studies, 2016
- Alexa S. Dietrich, The Drug Company Next Door: Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico – awarded of Julian Steward Award by the American Anthropological Association, 2015
- Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination and Celebrity Culture – winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association, 2015
- Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim, Caring Across Generations: The Linked Lives of Korean American Families – awarded Asia and Asian America Section Best Book Award by American Sociological Association, 2015
- Gwen Ottinger, Refining Expertise: How Responsible Engineers Subvert Environmental Justice Challenges – winner of the Society for Social Studies of Science's Rachel Carson Prize, 2015
- Vincent Woodard, Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture – winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation's LGBT Studies Award, 2015
- Marni Davis, Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition – finalist of the the Jewish Book Council's Sami Rohr Prize, 2014
- Janet K. Shim, Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease – finalist of the Society for the Study of Social Problems' C. Wright Mills Award, 2014
- Priscilla Pope-Levison, Building the Old Time Religion: Women Evangelists in the Progressive Era – Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014
- Josh Lambert, Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture – winner of Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, 2014
- Cara Wallis, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones – winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the National Communication Association, 2014
- Kelly E. Happe, The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project – winner of the National Communication Association's Diamond Anniversary Book Award
- Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson, A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America – winner of the Outstanding Book Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2014
