Recent Award Winners

Congratulations to these UNP authors who were recently recognized for their work!

WHA Awards

We Are Not Animals (Nebraska, 2022) by Martin Rizzo-Martinez won the 2023 John C. Ewers Award which is given annually for the best published book on the North American (including Mexico) Indian Ethnohistory.

The Dakota Way of Life (Bison Books, 2022) by Ella Cara Deloria and edited by Edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié won the 2023 Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award which is given to an author/editor and the publisher of a significant bibliography or research tool on any aspect of the history of the American West.

The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky (Nebraska, 2022) by Mark Johnson won the 2023 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize which is presented to a beginning professional historian for a first book on any aspect of the history of the American West.

American Book Fest 2023

Murder in Manchuria (Potomac Books, 2023) by Scott D. Seligman won in the History: General category.

Changing Woman (Bison Books, 2023) by Venetia Hobson Lewis is a finalist in the Fiction: Western category.

Black Cowboys of Rodeo (Nebraska, 2021) by Keith Ryan Cartwright is the winner in the Nonfiction: General category.

2022 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender

Sex, Gender, and Illegitimacy in the Castilian Noble Family (Nebraska, 2022) by Grace E. Coolidge received an Honorable Mention.

2023 Laramie Book Awards

The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Changing Woman (Bison Books, 2023) by Venetia Hobson Lewis is on the shortlist for Americana Fiction in the Laramie Book Awards. Winners will be announced April 20th.

2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

These seven works have been recognized by Choice for their excellence in presentation and scholarship, the significance of their contribution to the field, their originality and value as an essential treatment of their subject, and significance in building undergraduate collections.

America and the Holocaust (JPS, 2022) by Rafael Medoff.

Dirt Persuasion (Nebraska, 2022) by Derek Moscato.

Hydronarratives (Nebraska, 2023) by Matthew S. Henry.

Sports and Aging (Nebraska, 2022) by Gerald R. Gems.

Stories from Saddle Mountain (Nebraska, 2021) by Henrietta and Raymond Tongkeamha.

The Places of Modernity in Early Mexican American Literature, 1848–1948 (Nebraska, 2022) by José F. Aranda Jr.

We Are Not Animals (Nebraska, 2022) by Martin Rizzo-Martinez.