Diversity Award Winners: Home

Presented by the National Women's Studies Association for a groundbreaking monograph in women, gender, and sexuality studies that makes significant contributions to feminist disability studies scholarship. This prize honors Alison Piepmeier, whose scholarship examined the intersection of feminist and disability studies.

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards "recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures."

 Association for Asian American Studies gives awards in the areas of history, social sciences, humanities and cultural studies, poetry, and fiction.

The BCALA Literary Awards acknowledge outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction by African American authors. Recipients of these awards offer outstanding depictions of the cultural, historical, or sociopolitical aspects of the Black Diaspora and embody the highest quality of writing style and research methodology, if applicable.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize is awarded to adult fiction and nonfiction books published within the past year that have led readers to a better understanding of other cultures, peoples, religions, and political points of view.

The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award since 1990, presented by the Ferro-Grumley Foundation and The Publishing Triangle to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBTQ fiction.

Presented by the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) for groundbreaking monographs in women's studies that makes significant multicultural feminist contributions to women of color/transnational scholarship. The prize honors Gloria Anzaldúa, a valued and long-active member of the NWSA.

The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers.

Named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928–82).

The Lora Romero First Book Prize is awarded every year to the best first book published in American studies that highlights intersectional dynamics in the study of race, gender, class, sexuality, and/or nation.

This award goes to an MLA member "for an outstanding scholarly study in any language of United States Latina and Latino or Chicana and Chicano literature or culture." 

Inaugurated in 1950, the National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program of its kind and is recognized as the most prestigious. Presented by the Jewish Book Council, the awards are intended to recognize authors, and encourage reading, of the outstanding English-language books of Jewish interest.

Presented by the National Women's Studies Association for a monograph that addresses women and labor from intersectional perspectives. This prize honors Sara Whaley, who owned Rush Publishing and was the editor of Women's Studies Abstracts.

This award honors Susan Koppelman, a feminist literary historian and the editor of groundbreaking critical collections of American women’s short stories. The award recognizes groundbreaking feminist work in popular culture.

The Women's Prize Trust (UK) showcases the very best writing by women for everyone through the Women’s Prize for Fiction, one of the most respected, celebrated and successful literary awards in the world.

The American Academy of Religion offers awards to publications that make significant contributions to the study of religion. These awards honor works of distinctive originality, intelligence, creativity, and importance; books that affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted.

The Arab American Book Awards is a literary program created to honor books written by and about Arab Americans that generates greater awareness of Arab American scholarship and writing.

The Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature honors "individual work about Asian/Pacific Americans and their heritage, based on literary and artistic merit."

Established by the National Council for the Social Studies, the Carter G. Woodson award winners are "most distinguished books appropriate for young readers that depict ethnicity in the United States." Books are for elementary, middle, and secondary levels.

This award honors Emily Toth, a pioneer in both Women’s Studies and in Popular Culture; the award honors scholarship that makes a significant contribution to the fields of Women’s Studies and Popular Culture.

The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. The award is for the most outstanding non-fiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition.

The Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards were given out each year between 1985 and 2008 by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Each year ten works were so noted for their treatment of the subjects of bigotry, intolerance, and inequitable power arrangements in society.

Since 1997, Empowering Latino Futures has been recognizing the greatness in both Latino writers and in non-Latinos who are writing on Latino topics. In 2007 the Latino Book Awards were renamed International Latino Book Awards.

For over 30 years, the Lambda Literary Awards (or “Lammys”) have maintained a proud tradition of celebrating vibrant, dynamic LGBTQ storytelling. The Lambda Literary Awards were created to garner national visibility for LGBTQ books.

The Modern Language Association gives this award for an outstanding scholarly work in the field of Native American literatures, cultures, and languages. Works that examine and broaden understanding of the cultural expressions of first peoples or nations of the United States, Canada, and Mexico are considered.

The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies presents this book award for an outstanding new book in the field of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

The Council of Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) presents awards for the best first and subsequent scholarly books by one or two authors on any topic related to Native American and Indigenous Studies.

The Ruth Benedict Prize is presented by the American Anthropological Association to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic.

The Stonewall Book Awards for LGBTQIA+ books, which started in 1971, is sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. Awards are given for literature, nonfiction, children's, and young adult books for "exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience."

The Schuck Award honors the best book published on women and politics and is presented by the American Political Science Association; Victoria Schuck earned her PhD in 1937 from Stanford University and played a leading role in opening doors for women in the profession.