Book Award Reception

The Book Award Reception celebrates outstanding writers whose contributions to the humanities change the conversation by fostering new directions for their discipline.

Details for the next Book Award Reception have not yet been announced.

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Request a previous Book Award recipient in digital or physical copy from the ASU Library.

IHR Book Award recipients

	The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City		2020
	Crowdsourcing the Law: Trying Sexual Assault on Social Media	honorable mention	2020
	Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands		2019
	The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production	honorable mention	2019
	Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier		2018
	Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity	honorable mention	2018
	Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State	honorable mention	2018
	Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change		2017
	The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed		2016
	Sex and Herbs and Birth Control		2015