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

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)
• 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)
• 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