In addition to our booth in the AHA exhibit hall, we offer this virtual space to showcase our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of History at SUP.
Announcements
Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S24XAHA through our virtual exhibit ».
Recent Award Winners
1368: China and the Making of the Modern World »
ALI HUMAYUN AKHTAR
- Gold Medal (tie) in the History (World) Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan»
KATHRYN BABAYAN
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 »
NADIM BAWALSA
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Palestine Book Awards, sponsored by the Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
- Winner of the 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory »
CAREL BERTRAM
- Honorable Mention for the 2023 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa »
AOMAR BOUM, ILLUSTRATED BY NADJIB BERBER
- Gold Medal in the Graphic Novel/Drawn Book Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
Wartime North Africa: A Documentary History, 1934–1950 »
EDITED BY AOMAR BOUM AND SARAH ABREVAYA STEIN
- Winner of the 2023 Annual Reference Award, sponsored by the Association of Jewish Libraries.
- Winner of the 2023 Best Historical Materials Award, sponsored by the American Library Association.
SUSAN A. CRANE
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) category, sponsored by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic Belonging »
KERI DAY
- Named a 2022 Important Theology Books of the Year Award, sponsored by The Englewood Review of Books.
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico »
S. DILLINGHAM
- Winner of the 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, sponsored by the American Society for Ethnohistory.
- Winner of the 2023 The Maria Elena Martinez Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History.
Bread and Freedom: Egypt's Revolutionary Situation »
MONA EL-GHOBASHY
- Joint-Winner of the 2022 Charles Taylor Book Award, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group (IMM).
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
- Joint-Winner of the 2022 APSA MENA Politics Section Award for Best Book, sponsored by the American Political Science Association (APSA) - Middle East and North Africa Politics Section.
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Named a 2022 Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year Award, sponsored by the Foreign Affairs.
Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution »
BRETT GARY
- Gold Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (U.S.) Category.
Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's Capital »
ROTEM GEVA
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, sponsored by the New India Foundation.
It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity »
SONIA GOLLANCE
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Finalist of the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards, Modern Jewish Thought & Experience category, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council.
The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier »
CHRIS GRATIEN
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Nikki Keddie Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment »
HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT
- Winner of the 2022 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, sponsored by the American Library Association.
- Bronze Medal (tie) in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War »
SHAY HAZKANI
- Longlisted in the 2021 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University and the Cundill Foundation.
- Winner of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies, sponsored by the Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel.
- Winner of the 2023 Award for Best Book in Israel Studies, sponsored by Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies / Concordia University Library.
Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway »
MIKIYA KOYAGI
- Co-Winner of the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, sponsored by the International Society for Iranian Studies.
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center Book Prize, sponsored by the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.
- Winner of the 2023 Japan Consortium for Area Studies Toryu-sho (Budding Scholar) Award, sponsored by the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS).
Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control »
MICHAEL KREPON
- Gold Medal in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) - History (World) Category.
- Winner of the 2022 Douglas Dillon Award, sponsored by the American Academy of Diplomacy.
- Named one of the Best New Diplomacy/Arms Control Books to Read in 2022 by BookAuthority.
What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century »
KATHLEEN LUBEY
- Shortlisted for the 2023 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize, sponsored by Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University.
Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire »
MOSTAFA MINAWI
- Winner of the 2023 Albert Hourani Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today »
ASHOKA MODY
- Named a 2023 Best Summer Book, sponsored by the Financial Times.
The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalits, Sexuality, and Humanity in Modern India »
SHAILAJA PAIK
- Winner of the 2023 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World »
MASSIMO RIVA
- Winner of the 2023 PROSE Award in the e-Product Category, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.
Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil »
HEATHER F. ROLLER
- Winner of the 2022 Friedrich Katz Prize, sponsored by the American Historical Association (AHA).
- Winner of the 2022 Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Prize for the Best Book in Social Sciences, sponsored by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Brazil Section.
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador »
IRINA CARLOTA SILBER
- Bronze Medal in the Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs) for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
- Winner of the 2023 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology, sponsored by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA).
- Bronze Medalist for the 2023 International Latino Book Award in the Best Academic Themed Book, College Level - English Category, sponsored by the Latino Literacy Now.
- Honorable Mention for the 2023 Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award, sponsored by the International Latino Book Awards and Latino Literacy Now.
- Honorable Mention for the 2022 Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, sponsored by the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA).
Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa »
CHRISTOPHER SILVER
- Winner of the 2023 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies, sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS).
- Received the Certificate of Merit for the 2023 Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, sponsored by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections.
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt »
ANDREW SIMON
- Silver Medal in the Popular Culture Category for the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs).
- Named one of the "Top Ten Books" of 2022 by On the Media (WNYC Studios)
The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War »
PETER STANSKY
- Winner of the 2023 Peter Davison Award, sponsored by The Orwell Society.
Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria»
MAX WEISS
- Winner of the 2022 SSA Best Book Prize, sponsored by the Syrian Studies Association.
AHA Resources
We welcome inquiries from prospective authors, instructions for submitting book proposals to SUP are available online.
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