The exceptional work NHC Fellows produce has consistently garnered praise and attention from other scholars, and, each year, many of their books earn prizes and other forms of professional recognition for their excellence.
Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
2020 Tom Watson Brown Book Award of the Society of Civil War Historians
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award of the Cleveland Foundation
2020 Best Black-History Books by Black Perspectives
2020 Phillis Wheatley Book Award of Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice: A Publishing Unit of ACRL
Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture
2019 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association
2019 Kenshur Prize of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University
Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis’ Ballets at the Court of Henri IV
2020 David Bevington Award of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire
2020 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America
2020 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
2020 PROSE Award of the Association of American Publishers
2020 Summersell Prize of the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South
2019 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize
Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
2021 John Boswell Prize of the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History
2020 National Postal Museum Award for Scholarship in Postal History by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal
2020 Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean History by the American Historical Association
Our Gigantic Zoo: A German Quest to Save the Serengeti
2021 DAAD/GSA Book Prize for the Best Book in History/Social Sciences by the German Academic Exchange Service
Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance
2020 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics
2019 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize of the Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster
2019 British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize
The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story
2020 New England Society Book Award
As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
2020 Best Black-History Books by Black Perspectives
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy
2021 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize of the Renaissance Society of America
2020 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History by the Society for Italian Historical Studies
Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice: A Publishing Unit of ACRL
Old Lands: A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice: A Publishing Unit of ACRL