2013 Awards

Year:

ICAS Book Prizes

International Convention of Asia Scholars

Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China

Thomas S. Mullaney

Honorable Mention for the 2013 Rene Wellek Prize

American Comparative Literature Association

Flesh and Fish Blood: Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular

S. Shankar

IACP COOKBOOK AWARDS

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics

Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim

Finalist in Reference and Scholarship

The James Beard Foundation Awards

The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook

Anne Willan

The Jane Grigson Award

International Association of Culinary Professionals

The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook

Anne Willan

Harry Levin

American Comparative Literature Association

Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt

Shaden M. Tageldin

American Horticultural Society Book Award

American Horticultural Society

The California Wildlife Habitat Garden: How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals

Nancy Bauer

Best of Show, CaGIS Map Competition

Cartography and Geographic Information Society

Atlas of Yellowstone

W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, and Alethea Y. Steingisser

Harry Levin

American Comparative Literature Association

Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt

Shaden M. Tageldin

SCIBA Book Award

SoCal Independent Booksellers

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng

AAG Globe Book Award

Association of American Geographers

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng

Finalist for IACP Cookbook Award in Food Matters category

International Association of Culinary Professionals

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics

Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim

Finalist, IACP Cookbook Award for Culinary History

International Association of Culinary Professionals

The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook

Anne Willan

J.I. Staley Prize

School for Advanced Research

Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment

João Biehl

Best Chinese Cookbook in the World

Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from around the World

Linda Lau Anusasananan

AAG Globe Book Award

Association of American Geographers

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng

Kovács Book and Essay Awards

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno

Miriam Bratu Hansen

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Awards

National Book Critics Circle

Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography

Lisa Jarnot

Harold Gilliam Award for Excellence in Envirornmental Reporting

Bay Institute

Natural History of San Francisco Bay

Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and Kathleen M. Wong

Jensen-Miller Prize for Best Article in Women's and Gender History

Western History Association

Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood

Hilary A. Hallett