Awards

2020

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  Award: Jan Wolkers Prize
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  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
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  Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings

  by

  Valerie Trouet

  Subject(s): Life Sciences | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: Leo Gershoy Award
  Award Category: History
  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: American Historical Association
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  Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800

  by

  Margaret E. Schotte

  Subject(s): History | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize
  Award Category: History
  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: Economic History Association
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  The Train and the Telegraph: A Revisionist History

  by

  Benjamin Michael Sidney Schwantes

  Subject(s): Economic History | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: Best Political/Current Affairs Book
  Award Category: Finalist
  Award Level: Honorable Mention | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: Empowering Latino Futures
  Winner(s):

  Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

  by

  William D. Lopez

  Subject(s): Public Health | Award Type(s): Public Health
  

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  Award: Latino Book Award
  Award Category: Best First Book - Nonfiction
  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: Empowering Latino Futures
  Winner(s):

  Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

  by

  William D. Lopez

  Subject(s): Public Health | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: International Latino Book Awards
  Award Category: Best Collection of Short Stories
  Award Level: Honorable Mention | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: Empowering Latino Futures
  Winner(s):

  Staten Island Stories

  by

  Claire Jimenez

  Subject(s): Literature, Fiction and Poetry | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article
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  Sponsoring Organization: Nursing Clio
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  “'Something Wasn’t Clean': Black Midwifery, Birth, and Postwar Medical Education in All My Babies,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 93, no. 1 (2019) 82–113

  by

  Wangui Muigai

  Subject(s): Nursing; Midwife | Award Type(s): Journals
  

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  Award: Morris D. Forkosch Prize
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  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: Journal of the History of Ideas
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  After the Flood: Imagining the Global Environment in Early Modern Europe

  by

  Lydia Barnett

  Subject(s): History | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize
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  Award Level: Shortlisted | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: British Sociological Association
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  Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting: Stigma and the Undoing of Global Health

  by

  Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich

  Subject(s): Public Policy and Sociology | Award Type(s): Books
  

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  Award: George Rosen Prize
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  Award Level: Winner | Award Year: 2020
  Sponsoring Organization: American Association for the History of Medicine
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  The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa

  by

  Guillaume Lachenal, translated by Noémi Tousignant

  Subject(s): History of Medicine | Award Type(s): Books