Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism
by Michael Barnett
Cowinner, 2012 Yale H. Ferguson Book Award (International Studies Association–Northeast)
The Mediation Dilemma
by Kyle Beardsley
A 2012 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title"
Mirrors of Memory: Freud, Photography, and the History of Art
by Mary Bergstein
Winner, 2012 Courage to Dream Book Prize (American Psychoanalytic Association)
The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring
by Paulina Bren
•Winner, 2012 Council for European Studies Book Award
•Winner, 2012 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize
Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places
by Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones
Winner, 2012 Oral History Association Book Award
Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States
by Jennifer Jihye Chun
Cowinner, 2012 Distinguished Book Award (Race, Gender and Class Section, of the American Sociological Association)
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
by Jason M. Colby
•Honorable Mention, 2012 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations)
•Honorable Mention, 2012 Ralph Gomory Prize (Business History Conference)
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
by Gordon Conway
A 2012 Foreign Affairs Magazine Best Book of the Year
Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900–1949
by Theodora Dragostinova
Honorable Mention, 2012 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (Association for the Study of Nationalities)
Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia
by Barbara Alpern Engel
•Honorable Mention, 2012 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
•Finalist, History Category, 2012 Colorado Book Awards (Colorado Humanities Center for the Book)
Fields of Combat: Understanding PTSD among Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Erin P. Finley
Winner, 2012 Margaret Mead Award (American Anthropological Association/Society for Applied Anthropology)
Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics
by Elise Giuliano
Cowinner, 2012 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award (Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section, International Studies Association)
Sacred Folly: A New History of the Feast of Fools
by Max Harris
Winner, 2012 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society)
Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery
by John C. Hartsock
•Winner, 2011 Gourmand Book Award, Drinks Writing (U.S.A.)
•Finalist, 2012 Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Award (Category 7: International Wine Book of the Year 2012)
The Pseudo-Democrat's Dilemma: Why Election Monitoring Became an International Norm
by Susan D. Hyde
•Cowinner, 2011 Chadwick F. Alger Prize (International Organization Section, International Studies Association)
•Winner, 2012 Comparative Democratization Section Best Book Award (Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science Association)
•Cowinner, 2012 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize (MacMillan Center, Yale University)
The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian
by Helen M. Kinsella
•Winner, 2012 Sussex International Theory Prize (Research Centre for Advanced International Theory)
•Honorable Mention, Joseph S. Lepgold Book Prize (Georgetown University)
A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment
by Carrie M. Lane
•Winner, 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize
•Finalist, 2012 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize
Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It
by Terry L. Leap
Honorable Mention, 2012 Medical Book Awards/Physicians Category (American Medical Writers Association)
Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
by Anne E. Lester
Winner, 2012 Best First Book of Feminist Scholarship on the Middle Ages Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship)
Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
by Caitrin Lynch
Finalist, 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize
The Memory of All Ancient Customs: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley
by Tom Arne Midtrød
2013 Recipient, Award for Excellence in Research Using the Holdings of the State Archives (New York State Archives)
Vico and Naples: The Urban Origins of Modern Social Theory
by Barbara Ann Naddeo
Winner, 2011 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (American Philosophical Society)
Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque
by Jane O. Newman
Honorable Mention, 2012 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Modern Language Association)
The Logic of Positive Engagement
by Miroslav Nincic
A 2012 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title"
The Patriotism of Despair: Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
by Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Winner, 2012 Award for Best Book in Literature and Culture (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
by Morten Axel Pedersen
Honorable Mention, 2012 Gregory Bateson Book Prize (Society for Cultural Anthropology)
The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras
by Daniel R. Reichman
Honorable Mention, 2012 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing (Society for Humanistic Anthropology Section, American Anthropological Association)
The Big Squeeze: A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram
by Handel Reynolds
Second Place Winner, Consumer Health Category, American Journal of Nursing 2012 Book of the Year Award
Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War
by Kristin Roth-Ey
•Winner of the 2012 AATSEEL Award for Best Book in Literary/Cultural Studies (American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages)
•Honorable Mention, 2012 Bruce Lincoln Book Prize (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
Brokering Empire: Trans-Imperial Subjects between Venice and Istanbul
by E. Natalie Rothman
•Winner, 2012 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize given (American Historical Association)
•Winner, 2012 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize (American Historical Association)
Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence
by Joshua Rovner
Winner, 2012 International Security Studies Book Award (International Security Studies Section, International Studies Association)
Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary
by Kenneth J. Ruoff
Winner, 2012 Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards (Literary Arts Association)
Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions
Elizabeth N. Saunders
Winner, 2012 Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award (American Political Science Association)
By Force and Fear: Taking and Breaking Monastic Vows in Early Modern Europe
by Anne Jacobson Schutte
Winner, 2012 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize (American Catholic Historical Association)
Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909
by David Schuyler
Winner, 2013 Ruth Emery Award (Victorian Society in America)
By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria
by Jennifer E. Sessions
Winner, 2012 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Prize (French Colonial Historical Society)
The Caring Self: The Work Experiences of Home Care Aides
by Clare L. Stacey
Winner, 2012 Recent Contribution Award (Emotions Section, American Sociological Association)
Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq
by Alexander Thompson
•Winner, 2011 J. David Singer Best Book Award (Midwest International Studies Association)
•Cowinner, 2010 Chadwick F. Alger Prize (International Organization Section, International Studies Association)
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography
by Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Honorable Mention, Biography & Autobiography Category, 2012 Prose Awards (Association of American Publishers, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division)
Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China
by Andrew Wedeman
A 2012 Foreign Affairs Magazine Best Book of the Year
White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood
by Rachael A. Woldoff
•Winner, 2012 Best Book in Urban Affairs Award (Urban Affairs Association)
•Finalist, 2012 Scholarly Achievement Award (North Central Sociological Association)
In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis
by Li Zhang
•Winner, 2012 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book (American Sociological Association's Community and Urban Sociology Section)
•Winner, 2011 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize (Society for East Asian Anthropology)