2023 Co-Winners
Kemi Adeyemi, Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago
Emily Owens, Consent in the Presence of Force: Sexual Violence and Black Women’s Survival in Antebellum New Orleans
2023 Honorable Mention
Marie Bernadine Hernández, Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital and Violence in the 19th C Borderlands
2022 Co-Winners
Rana Jaleel, The Work of Rape
Duke University Press, 2021
micha cárdenas, Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media
Duke University Press, 2022
2022 Co-Honorable Mentions
Erica Edwards, The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire
New York University Press, 2021
Jennifer Nash, Birthing Black Mothers
Duke University Press, 2021
2021 Winner
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
New York University Press, 2020
Ghassan Moussawi,Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Temple University Press, 2020
2020 Winner
Sarah Luna, Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
University of Texas Press, 2020
2019 Winner
Jennifer Nash, Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality
Duke University Press, 2019
2019 Honorable Mention
Alys Weinbaum, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History
Duke University Press, 2019
2018 Winner
Debarati Sen, Everyday Sustainability: Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling
State University of New York Press, 2017
2018 Honorable Mention
T. Jackie Cuevas, Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique
Rutgers University Press, 2018
2017 Winner
Lorgia García-Peña, The Borders of Dominicanidad: Race, Nation, and Archives of Contradiction
Duke University Press, 2018
2017 Honorable Mentions
Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life
Duke University Press, 2017
Lalaie Ameeriar, Downwardly Global: Women, Work, and Citizenship in the Pakistani Diaspora
Duke University Press, 2017
2016 Winner
Sylvanna M. Falcon, Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism in the United Nations
University of Washington Press, 2016
2016 Honorable Mentions
Aimee Meredith Cox, Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship
Duke University Press, 2015
Sujey Vega, Latino Heartland: Of Borders and Belonging in the Midwest
New York University Press, 2015
2015 Winner
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
University of California Press, 2015
2015 Honorable Mention
Richa Nagar, Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism
University of Illinois Press, 2014
2014 Winner
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
University of Minnesota Press, 2014
2014 Honorable Mention
AnaLouise Keating, Transformation Now
University of Illinois Press, 2014
2013 Winner
L. Ayu Saraswati, Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia
University of Hawaii Press, 2013
2012 Winner
Elora Chowdhury, Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh
SUNY Press, 2011
2012 Honorable Mentions
Theresa Delgadillo, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
Duke University Press, 2011
Layli Maparyan, The Womanist Idea
Routledge, 2011
2011 Winner
Barbara Sutton, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women's Resistance in Neoliberal Argentia
Rutgers University Press, 2010
2011 Honorable Mention
Megan Sweeny, Title
University of North Carolina Press, 2010
2010 Winner
Suzanne Bost, Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature
Fordham University Press, 2009
2010 Honorable Mention
Lisa Thompson, Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class
University of Illinois Press, 2009
2009 Winner
Maria Eugenia Cotera, Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez and the Poetics of Culture
University of Texas Press, 2008
2008 Winner
Amira Jarmakani, Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
2008 Honorable Mention
Cari M. Carpenter, Seeing Red
Ohio State University Press, 2008