November 2008: Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology, for Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico (Matthew Gutmann)

November 2008: Gustavus Myers Outstanding Books Award from the Gustavus Myers Awards, for Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America (David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag)

November 2008: National Outdoor Book Awards from the National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation, for American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree (Susan Freinkel)

November 2008: Honorable Mention for the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from The Urban History Association, for Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Peter La Chapelle)

November 2008: Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society, for Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (Ellen Rosand)

November 2008: John K. Fairbank Award from the American Historical Association, for The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Susan Mann)

November 2008: Philip Brett Award from the American Musicological Society, for Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays (Philip Brett)

October 2008: Alan Merriam Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology, for "Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad (Timothy Rommen)

October 2008: Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association, for Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Paul Christopher Johnson)

October 2008: Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, for Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Adeeb Khalid)

October 2008: Ruth Benedict Prize from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, for The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco (Barbara L. Voss)

October 2008: Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology, for Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (Alexander Laban Hinton)

October 2008: New Millennium Book Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology, for Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self (Lesley A. Sharp)

October 2008: Deems Taylor Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers, for George Gershwin: His Life and Work (Howard Pollack)

September 2008: Winner of the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction from the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, for Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (David R. Montgomery)

September 2008: Finalist for Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., for The Roman Catholic Church: An Illustrated History (Edward Norman)

September 2008: Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion from The Society for the Anthropology of Religion, a section of the American Anthropological Association, for A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (Matthew Engelke)

September 2008: Finalist for the JHP Book Prize from the Journal of the History of Philosophy, for Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (David Sedley)

September 2008: Finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize from the American Studies Association, for Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Daniel Hurewitz)

September 2008: Frederic W. Ness Book Award from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, for Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (Peter Sacks)

September 2008: J.I. Segal Book Award from the Jewish Public Library, for They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)

September 2008: BMA Medical Book Award from the British Medical Association, for The State of Health Atlas: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease (Diarmuid O'Donovan)

September 2008: Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from The Mozart Society of America, for Bach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow: An Essay on the Origins of Musical Modernity (Karol Berger)

September 2008: Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize from the American Studies Association, for Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Ruth Wilson Gilmore)

August 2008: Ambassador Book Award from The English-Speaking Union of the United States, for Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (Rebecca Solnit)

July 2008: BMA Medical Book Award from the British Medical Association, for The State of Health Atlas: Mapping the Challenges and Causes of Disease (Diarmuid O'Donovan)

June 2008: Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship and Research Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology, for Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Robert Courtney Smith)

June 2008: Book Award in Asian Cooking from the James Beard Foundation, for My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking (Niloufer Ichaporia King)

June 2008: Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry from The Griffin Trust, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, Revised and Expanded Edition. (Robin Blaser)

June 2008: Lifetime Recognition Award from The Griffin Trust, for The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (Ko Un)

June 2008: Shortlist, Griffin Poetry Prize from The Griffin Trust, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)

June 2008: Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize from the Pacific Rim Voices, for The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Susan Mann)

June 2008: Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize from the Pacific Rim Voices, for East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons (Liza Dalby)

June 2008: 2008 Sociology of Labor Book Award from the American Sociological Association, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)

May 2008: Labor and Labor Movements from the American Sociological Association, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)

May 2008: Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, for Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Robert Courtney Smith)

May 2008: 2008 Tony Nomination for David PIttu, "Best Featured Actor" for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)

May 2008: Audience Award Nominations for "Favorite New Broadway Play", "Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play" (Norbert Leo Butz), "Favorite Diva Performance" (Norbert Leo Butz), and "Favorite Ensemble Cast" from the Broadway.com, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)

May 2008: "Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play" (David Pittu) from the Outer Critics Circle, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)

May 2008: 2007 Actors Equity Joe A. Callaway Award -- "the best performances in a professional production of a classic play (one written prior to 1920) in the New York metropolitan area" ( Byron Jennings) from the Actors Equity, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)

May 2008: Canadian Jewish Book Award from the Koffler Centre of the Arts, for They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)

May 2008: W.E. Fischelis Award from The Victorian Society in America, for Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter (Sylvia Yount, Kevin Sharp, Nina Auerbach, and Mark Bockrath)

May 2008: Short-listed for the Millia Davenport Publication Award from the Costume Society of America, for An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (Jill Fields)

April 2008: Best of Reference from the New York Library Association , for The Atlas of Religion (Joanne O'Brien and Martin Palmer)

April 2008: C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)

April 2008: Outstanding Book Award from the American Education Research Association, for Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (C. J. Pascoe)

April 2008: Best Book in the Food Reference/Technical category from the International Association of Culinary Professionals , for Food: The History of Taste (Edited by Paul Freedman)

April 2008: Finalist, Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, for Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Adrian Burgos Jr.)

April 2008: The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)

April 2008: 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist from The Griffin Poetry Prize, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)

April 2008: 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist from the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, Revised and Expanded Edition. (Robin Blaser)

April 2008: Herbert Hoover Book Award Committee from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, for Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Daniel Hurewitz)

April 2008: NCIBA Book of the Year Award- Best Regional Title from The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, for Historical Atlas of California (Derek Hayes)

March 2008: Planeta Book of the Year from the Planeta.com, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)

March 2008: Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)

March 2008: Finalist for C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)

March 2008: Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, for An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (Jill Fields)

March 2008: Nominee, Northern California Book Award from the Northern California Book reviewers, for Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (Rebecca Solnit)

March 2008: Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association, for Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema (Haidee Wasson)

March 2008: Micahael C. Meyer Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, for Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War (John Mason Hart)

February 2008: Society for the Anthropology of North America for The Farmworkers' Journey (Ann Aurelia López)

February 2008: Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Author Award from the University of Texas at Austin and University Cooperative Society, for Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (Mark Metzler)

February 2008: ICAS Book Prizes from the International Convention of Asia Scholars, for Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (Mark Metzler)

January 2008: Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, for The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (Sheldon Pollock)

January 2008: Barpujari Prize from the Indian History Congress, for Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire (Rajmohan Gandhi)

January 2008: Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthroplogy from the Royal Anthropological Institutions, for Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Harri Englund)

January 2008: Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthroplogy from the Royal Anthropological Institutions, for Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Harri Englund)

January 2008: Planeta Book of the Year from the Planeta.com, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)

January 2008: Prize in Honor of Michael Jimenez from the Latin American Studies Association, for Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (Winifred Tate)