The University of Washington Press is pleased to recognize these award-winning books.

2013

• University of Washington Press
  Winner of the Pacific Northwest History Organizational Award (sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild)
• Make Yourself a Teacher: Rabbinic Tales of Mentors and Disciples, by Susan Handelman
  Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Contemporary Jewish Life and Practice (sponsored by the Jewish Book Council)
• Plume: Poems, by Kathleen Flenniken
  Finalist for the William Carlos Williams Award (sponsored by the Poetry Society of America)

2012

• Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West, by John M. Findlay and Bruce Hevly
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in History / General Non-fiction
• Beneath Cold Seas: The Underwater Wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, by David Hall
  Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in the Design and Artist Merit Category
• Darwin's Pharmacy: Sex, Plants, and the Evolution of the Noosphere, by Richard M. Doyle
  Winner of a Jacket and Cover design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)
• Qayluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories: Meanings of Place on the Bering Sea Coast, translated by Alice Rearden; edited by Ann Fienup-Riordan
  Winner of an American Book Award (sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation)
• Qing Governors and Their Provinces: The Evolution of Territorial Administration in China, 1644-1796, by R. Kent Guy
  Honorable Mention, Joseph Levenson Prize, pre-1900 category (sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies)
• Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta, by David Biggs
  Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History (sponsored by the American Society for Environmental History)
• Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self, by Igal Halfin
  Winner of a Jacket and Cover design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)
• Seattle Geographies, edited by Michael Brown and Richard Morrill
  Winner of a Reference design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity, by Andy Fisher
  Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award for the best book on the twentieth-century west (sponsored by the Western History Association)
• Underdog: Poems, by Katrina Roberts
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award in Poetry
  Winner of a Poetry and Literature design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria, by David T. Doris
  Winner of the Melville J. Herskovits Award for the most important Scholarly work in African Studies (sponsored by the African Studies Association)
• Voyages: To the New World and Beyond, by Gordon Miller
  Winner of the John Lyman Book Award in the Naval and Maritime Reference Works and Published Primary Sources Category (sponsored by the North American Society for Oceanic History)

2011

• Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
  Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art History (sponsored by the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies)
• Being and Place among the Tlingit, by Thomas F. Thornton
  Second place for the Julian Steward Award for environmental anthropology (sponsored by the American Anthropological Association)
• The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond,
  by Hanchao Lu
  Recipient of the Chinese Historians in the United States 2010 Honor for Academic Excellence
• The Book of Men and Women: Poems, by David Biespiel
  Winner of the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry (Oregon Book Awards)
• Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea's Democratic Unionism under Park Chung Hee,
  by Hwasook Nam
  Winner of the James B. Palais Book Prize (sponsored by the Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies)
• The Car That Brought You Here Still Runs, by Francis McCue
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for History/General Nonfiction
  
• Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, by Marsha Weisiger
  Winner of the Hal K. Rothman Award for the Best Book on Western Environmental History (sponsored by the Western History Association)
  
• Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, by Brett Walker
  Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History (sponsored by the American Society for Environmental History)

2010

• Amelia: The Libretto, by Gardner McFall
  Winner of a Poetry and Literature design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, by Marsha Weisiger
  Winner of the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award (sponsored by the Historical Society of New Mexico)
  Winner of the Norris and Carol Hudley Award (sponsored by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association)
  Winner of the Caroline Bancroft Honor Prize (sponsored by the Denver Public Library)
• Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830-1914, by Zeynep Celik
  Winner of the Spiro Kostof Award (sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians)
• Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand,
  by Justin Thomas McDaniel
  Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize (sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies)
• Greening Cities, Growing Communities: Learning from Seattle's Urban Community Gardens,
  by Jeffrey Hou, Julie Johnson, and Laura Lawson
  Winner of the Great Places Award (sponsored by Places: Design Observer and EDRA [Environmental Design Research Association], in cooperation with Metropolis Magazine)
• HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic between Information and Flesh,
  by Marsha Rosengarten
  Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Prize (sponsored by the British Sociological Association)
• International Architecture in Interwar Japan: Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku, by Ken Tadashi Oshima
  Winner of a Scholarly Typographic design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China, by Robert E. Harrist Jr.
  Winner of the Levenson Prize (sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies)
• The Love Israel Family: Urban Commune, Rural Commune, by Charles P. LeWarne
  Winner of the Malstrom Award of the League of Snohomish County Historical Organizations
• Mind's World: Imagination and Subjectivity from Descartes to Romanticism, by Alexander Schlutz
  Winner of the Jean-Pierre Barrcelli Prize (sponsored by the International Conference on Romanticism)
• A Moveable Empire: Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees, by Resat Kasaba
  Winner of the Fuad Koprulu Best Book Award (sponsored by the Turkish Studies Association)
• Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows, by Melissa G. Post
  Awarded the Washington Museum Association Award for Public Excellence
• Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters, edited by Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, and Paul Jaussen
  Winner of a Scholarly Typographic design award from the Association of American University Presses (Veronica Seyd, designer)
• Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge, by Canyon Sam
  Winner of a Pen Open Book Award
• Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU, by Harvey Schwartz
  Winner of the Best American Labor History from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association
• This Is What They Say: Stories, by Francois Mandeville; translated from Chipewyan by Ron Scollon
  Winner of an American Book Award (sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation)
• Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran, by Arash Khazeni
  Winner of the Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award (sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association)
• Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume, by Bruce Bourque and Laureen LaBar
  Recipient of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Book Award
• Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West, by Lorraine McConaghy
  Awarded the Washington Museum Association Award for Public Excellence
• Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve, by John C. Miles
  Named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice
• Wild Sardinia: Indigeneity and the Global Dreamtimes of Environmentalism, by Tracey Heatherington
  Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing (sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology)
• Winning the Math Wars: No Teacher Left Behind, by Martin L. Abbott, Duane Baker, Karen Smith, and Thomas Trzyna
  Winner of a Jacket and Cover design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)
• With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyo Vision, by Cynthea J. Bogel
  Winner of a Scholarly Illustrated design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)

2009

• Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804,
  by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black
  Awarded the Alaska Library Association's Alaskana of the Year Award
• Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, by Russell A. Potter
  Awarded a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence
  (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Artisans in Early Imperial China, by Anthony Barbieri-Low
  Winner of the 2009 International Convention of Asia Scholars Award
  Winner of the Levenson Prize (sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies)
  Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award (sponsored by the College Art Association)
  Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize (sponsored by the American Historical Association)
  Named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice
  Awarded a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Jacket Design Excellence
  (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life, by Jim Kershner
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for History /Biography
• The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, by Richard A. Walker
  Winner of the 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award (sponsored by the Western History Association)
• Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan, by Joyce Brodsky
  Awarded a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence
  (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska, by David F. Arnold
  Winner of a Scholarly Typographic design award from the Association of American University Presses (Pamela Canell, designer)
• Homebase: A Novel, by Shawn Wong
  Awarded a Bookbuilders West Certificate of Design Excellence
  (Tom Eykemans, designer)
• The Informed Gardener, by Linda Chalker-Scott
  Awarded the Best Book Prize by the Garden Writers Association
  Winner of a Reference design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, edited by Phillip Earenfight
  Winner of the Alfred H. Barr Award (sponsored by the College Art Association)
• The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900, by Ramya Sreenivasan
  Winner of the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize (sponsored by the
  Association for Asian Studies)
  
• Mine Okubo: Following Her Own Road, edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef
  Winner of a Scholarly Illustrated design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• S'abadeb, The Gifts: Pacific Coast Salish Art and Artists, edited by Barbara Brotherton
  Winner of the Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction
• Two Kinds of Time, by Graham Peck
  Winner of a Jacket/Cover design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)
• The Weather of the Pacific Northwest, by Cliff Mass
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for General Nonfiction
• Yellowfish: A Novel, by John Keeble
  Winner of a Jacket/Cover design award from the Association of American University Presses (Tom Eykemans, designer)

2008

• The University of Washington Press was honored with an Asian American Living Pioneer Award from Northwest Asian Weekly.
• Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka / Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804,
  edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black
  Winner of an American Book Award (sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation)
• Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, by Russell A. Potter
  Winner of the Trade Illustrated design award from the Association of University Presses
  (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Beyond Literary Chinatown, by Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
  Winner of an American Book Award (sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation)
  Winner of a Scholarly Typographic design award from the Association of American University Presses (Pamela Canell, designer)
• The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, by Richard A. Walker
  Finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Contemporary Nonfiction
• Danish Cookbooks: Domesticity and National Identity, 1616-1901, by Carol Gold
  Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbooks Award
  Winner of a Trade Illustrated design award from the Association of American University Presses (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• The Informed Gardener, by Linda Chalker-Scott
  Included in Gateways, Portugal Book Exhibition and Publication
  (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Ipse Dixit: How the World Looks to a Federal Judge, by William L. Dwyer
  Winner of a Scholarly Typographic design award from the Association of American University Presses (Audrey S. Meyer, designer)
• A Kiowa's Odyssey: A Sketchbook from Fort Marion, edited by Phillip Earenfight
  Winner of the Award of Merit from the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations
• Lionel H. Pries, Architect, Artist, Educator: From Arts and Crafts to Modern Architecture,
  by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner
  Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for History /Biography
  Awarded two medals for design from the Publishers Association of the West (Jacket: Ashley Saleeba, designer; Interior: Veronica Seyd, designer)
• Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, by Coll Thrush
  Winner of the Washington State Book Award for History / Biography
• The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism, by Marianne Kamp
  Winner of the Heldt Prize (sponsored by the Association of Women in Slavic Studies)
  Winner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities
  Book Award
  Honorable Mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize (sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies)
• The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture,
  by Alex T. Anderson
  Winner of a Bookbuilders West Jacket design award (Ashley Saleeba, designer)
• Yuungnaqpiallerput / The Way We Genuinely Life: Masterworks of Yup'ik Science and Survival,
  by Ann Fienup-Riordan
  Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize (sponsored by the American Association of Anthropology)
  Honorable Mention for the William Mills Prize for Polar Books