2022 Awards
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
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
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
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
Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England
Bronach Kane
Boydell Press
Winner of the 2020 Women’s History Network
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
