2023 Awards

Liszt and Virtuosity
Edited by Robert Doran
University of Rochester Press
CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society

Architecture and Politics in Africa
Edited by Joanne Tomkinson, Daniel Mulugeta and Julia Gallagher
James Currey
Honourable Mention – 2023 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection

Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700
Bronagh Ann McShane
Boydell Press
JOINT WINNER: 2023 National University of Ireland’s Publication Prize in Irish History

Heinrich von Kleist
Edited by Jeffrey L. High, Rebecca Stewart, Rebecca Stewart-Gray and Elaine Chen
Camden House
WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Conservation, Markets & The Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa
Edited by Michael Bollig, Selma Lendelvo, Alfons Mosimane and Romie Nghitevelekwa
James Currey
WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Measure
Marc D. Moskovitz
Boydell Press
WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Written under the Skin
Carli Coetzee
James Currey
Winner of the 2021 ALA Book of the Year Award – Scholarship

Namib
John Kinahan
James Currey
WINNER SAfA BOOK PRIZE 2023

Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria
Brett E. Sterling
Camden House
Winner of the 2023 Radomír Luža Prize for the Best Manuscript in Austrian/Czechoslovak Studies in the World War II Era

2022 Awards

History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales
Rebecca Thomas
D.S. Brewer
Winner Francis Jones Prize 2022

Bernstein and Robbins
Sophie Redfern
University of Rochester Press
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner

Nikolay Myaskovsky
Patrick Zuk
Boydell Press
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner

The Real Agricultural Revolution
Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley and David Harvey
Boydell Press
2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner
WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society’s 2022 Thirsk Prize

The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765
Edited by Todd Gray
Devon History Society
Best Books on Devon’s History: Academic Award

The Culture of Dissent in Restoration England: The Wonders of the Lord
George Southcombe
Royal Historical Society
2022 Richard L. Greaves Prize Honourable Mention

Young Women against Apartheid
Emily Bridger
James Currey
Winner of the RHS Gladstone Book Prize 2022
Winner of the Society for the History of Children and Youth Grace Abbott Book Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize 2022

The Letters of Edward I
Kathleen Neal
Boydell Press
“Highly commended” runner up in the Royal Studies Journal book prize

A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
Derek Pearsall and Linne R. Mooney
D.S. Brewer
2022 John Hurt Fisher Award from the Gower Society

Reel Resistance – The Cinema of Jean-Marie Teno
Melissa Thackway and Jean-Marie Teno
James Currey
Co-winner African Literature Association Book of the Year – Scholarship

The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation
Laura Saetveit Miles
D.S. Brewer
2022 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Best First Book in Medieval Feminist Studies

Red Road to Freedom
Tom Lodge
James Currey
Longlisted for South Africa’s 2022 Sunday Times Non-fiction Award

Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640
Lynneth Miller Renberg
Boydell Press
WINNER: 2022 Guittard Book Award

Young Women against Apartheid
Emily Bridger
James Currey
Winner of the RHS Gladstone Book Prize 2022
Winner of the Society For The History Of Children And Youth Grace Abbott Book Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Asauk Fage & Oliver Prize 2022

The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, c.1100-c.1500
By Sara Elin Roberts
Boydell Press
2022 Hywel Dda Award (University of Wales Literary Awards)

2021 Awards

Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora
Farooq A. Kperogi
University of Rochester Press
2021 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner

Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America
Bonny Miller
University of Rochester Press
Honorable Mention, AMS H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award

The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation
Laura Saetveit Miles
D.S. Brewer
2021 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History

Medical Texts in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture
Emily Kesling
D.S. Brewer
Best First Monograph, International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England (ISSEME)

Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900
Eugene Costello
Boydell Press
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies

Imagining Ecuador
Luis A. Medina Cordova
Tamesis Books
Winner of the 2020-21 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom
Fiona Edmonds
Boydell Press
Frank Watson prize 2021

Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
Jessica Barker
Boydell Press
Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 1600
2021 ICMA Annual Book Prize

2020 Awards

Europe and the Decline of Social Democracy in Britain
Adrian Williamson
Boydell Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Letters of Margaret Anjou
Edited by Helen Maurer and B.M. Cron
Boydell Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Augustine’s Political Thought
Edited by Richard J. Dougherty
University of Rochester Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Bach and Mozart
Robert L. Marshall
University of Rochester Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe’s ‘Peacock’ China
Alec Cobbe
Boydell Press
Winner of the American Ceramic Circle Book Award

Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in Twentieth-Century Music
Florian Scheding
Boydell Press
2020 RMA/CUP Monograph Prize

Kitty Clive, or The Fair Songster
Berta Joncus
Boydell Press
Honourable Mention, 2020 RMA/CUP Monograph Prize

Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century
S.J. Drake
Boydell Press
Holyer an Gof Award in non-fiction

Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century
S.J. Drake
Boydell Press
The Federation of Old Cornwall Societies (FOCS) Holyer an Gof Cup

Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England
Bronach Kane
Boydell Press
Winner of the 2020 Women’s History Network

2019 Awards

Hawks and Doves in Sudan’s Armed Conflict
Suad M. E. Musa
James Currey
Winner of the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source
Patrick Sims-Williams
Boydell Press
Francis Jones Prize in Welsh History 2019 Jesus College

Heinrich Neuhaus: A Life beyond Music
Maria Razumovskaya
University of Rochester Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914
Edited by Timothy Snyder & Katherine Younger
University of Rochester Press
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: The Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603
Ruth A. Canning
Boydell Press
NUI Publication Prize in Irish History

Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge
Edited by John S. Lee & Christian Steer
Boydell Press
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Award

Brahms and the Shaping of Time
Edited by Scott Murphy
University of Rochester Press
Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory

Sara Levy’s World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin
Edited by Rebecca Cypess and Nancy Sinkoff
University of Rochester Press
Winner of the Book Prize from the Jewish Music and Jewish Studies Group of the American Musicological Society

Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past: An Essay on Mozart and Modernist Aesthetics
Edmund J. Goehring
University of Rochester Press
Winner of the 2019 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America

Faith, Power and Family
Charlotte Walker-Said
James Currey
Finalist for the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for Best Book in Africana Religions

2018 Awards

Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World
Marc Moskovitz and R. Larry Todd
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Long Shadow of the Past: Contemporary Austrian Literature, Film, and Culture
Katya Krylova
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure: A Translation
Translated by Glyn S. Burgess and Douglas Kelly
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Ploughing New Ground: Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia
Getnet Bekele
Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize from the African Studies Association

2017 Awards

The Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium)
Kazutomo Karasawa
Best Edition 2017 ISAS Publication

Liszt’s Final Decade
Dolores Pesce
Alan Walker Book Award

2016 Awards

Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany: The Literature of Inner Emigration
John Klapper
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The New Black Middle Class in South Africa
Roger Southall
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Coming of Age Under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland’s Last Communist Generation
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Svetik: A Family Memoir of Sviatoslav Richter
Walter Moskalew; Edited by Anthony Phillips, with a foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy
2016 ARSC Awards for Excellence: Winner of Best History in the category Best Historical Research in Recorded Classical Music

Nation and Classical Music: From Handel to Copeland
Matthew Riley & Anthony D. Smith
Sunday Times Best Reads of 2016

Erik Satie: A Parisian Composer and his World
Caroline Potter
Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year

Bach to Brahms: Essays on Musical Design and Structure
Edited by David Beach, Yosef Goldberg
Outstanding Multi-Authored Collection Award from the Society for Music Theory 

Lost Country Houses in Norfolk: History, Archaeology, Myth
Tom Williamson, Ivan Ringwood, Sarah Spooner
Winner of the 2016 East Anglian Book Awards  

Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-colonial Resistance in Sudan
Elena Vezzadini
Winner for the African Studies Association 2016 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize  

Femi Osofisan (Series Editor for African Theatre and Joint Volume Editor for African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World)
2016 Thalia Prize of the International Association of Theatre Critics

Robert Willis (1800-1875) and the Foundation for Architectural History
Alexandrina Buchanan
Cambridgeshire Association for Local History Award 

Achebe and Friends: The Making of a Literary Elite
Terri Ochiagha
2016 Winner of ASAUK Fage and Oliver Book Prize 

Manners Make a Nation: Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963
Allison K. Shutt 
Shortlisted for the ASAUK Fage and Oliver Book Prize

Mount Canigó: A Tale of Catalonia
Jacint Verdaguer
Translated by Ronald Puppo 
“Serra d’Or” Critics Award for Research in Catalan Studies

The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions
Edited by Michael Church
Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Creative Communication

2015 Awards

The Old English Martyrology: Edition, Translation and Commentary
Christine Rauer
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists 2015 Publication Prize: Best Edition

Literary Translation and the Idea of a Minor Romania
Sean Cotter
Society for Romanian Studies Biennial Book Award

Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland
Elva Johnston
NUI Irish Historical Research Prize

Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande
Stephen Lloyd
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence – Certificate of Merit in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Classical Music

Sir George Dyson: His Life and Music
Paul Spicer
Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award of Excellence – Certificate of Merit in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Classical Music

God and Uncle Sam
Michael Snape
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Dating of Beowulf
Edited by Leonard Neidorf
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

African Garrison State
Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel R. Mekonnen
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Swahili Novel
Xavier Garnier
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 

Trees in the Religions of Early Medieval England
Michael D.J. Bintly
Author won the Faculty Research Award from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University

Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833
Bernth Lindfors
2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association) 

Ira Aldridge: The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
Bernth Lindfors
2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association) 

Ira Aldridge: Performing Shakespeare in Europe, 1852-1855
Bernth Lindfors
2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association) 

Ira Aldridge: Last Years, 1855-1867
Bernth Lindfors
2015 George Freedley Memorial Award (Theatre Library Association) 

2014 Awards

Gender, Home and Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Katarzyna Grabska
Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014

Ngugi wa Thiong’o
The Nicolás Guillén Lifetime Achievement Award

The Reverend Jennie Johnson and African Canadian History, 1868-1967
Nina Reid-Maroney
Alison Prentice Award

The Counter-Cinema of the Berlin School
Marco Abel
German Studies Association Award

John Kirkpatrick, American Music, and the Printed Page
Drew Massey
The Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism

Abandoning America: Life-stories from early New England
Susan Hardman Moore
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Sir Thomas Malory Morte Darthur [2 volume set]
Edited by P.J.C. Field
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

The Musical Novel
Emily Petermann
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Last Features
Reinhild Steingröver
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

French Symphony at the Fin de Siècle
Andrew Deruchie
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

2013 Awards

A History of Malawi: 1859-1966
John McCracken
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Music in 1853: A Biography of a Year
Hugh MacDonald
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination
Teshale Tibebu
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Fictions from an Orphan State: Literary Reflections of Austria between Habsburg and Hitler
Andrew Barker
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England
David R. Carlson
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

2012 Awards

Alfred’s Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age
Ryan Lavelle
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Gunther Schuller: A Life in Pursuit of Music and Beauty
Gunther Schuller
Finalist for Foreword’s Book of the Year in the Biography/Autobiography Category

György Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds
Edited by Louise Duchesneau & Wolfgang Marx
Shortlisted for the RPS Music Award 2012 for Creative Communication

Ira Aldridge: The Early Years, 1807-1833 & The Vagabond Years, 1833-1852
Bernth Lindfors
Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize

Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia
Noel Fallows
Winner of the 2012 La corónica International Book Award, an annual international prize for the best monograph published on Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique
Signe Arnfred
Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen

The Sudan Handbook
Edited by John Ryle et al.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture
Katherine Allen Smith
Finalist for AAH First Book Prize

2011 Awards

Cornish Wrecking 1700-1860
Cathryn Pearce
Highly Commended in Class 6 – Non-Fiction: History and Creative Arts of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2011

The East India Company’s Maritime Service, 1746-1834
Jean Sutton
Winner of the Society for Nautical Research’s Anderson Medal

A History of Cornwall II – Religious History to 1560
Nicholas Orme
Highly Commended in Class 6 – Non-Fiction: History and Creative Arts of the Holyer an Gof Awards 2011

Lost Country Houses of Suffolk
W.M. Roberts
Longlisted for the New Angle Prize for Literature 2011

The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia
Penny Granger
Beatrice White Prize 2011

Peace versus Justice?
Edited by Chandra Lekha Sriram & Suren Pillay
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award