November 2009: Honorable Mention for Leeds Award in Urban Anthropology from the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology, for Transforming Cape Town (Catherine Besteman)

October 2009: Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from The Society for Humanistic Anthropology, for A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (Matthew Engelke)

October 2009: Utah Book Award in Non-Fiction from the Utah Center for the Book, for Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America (Stephen Trimble)

October 2009: Chicago Folklore Prize from The American Folklore Society, for Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai (Michael Dylan Foster)

October 2009: 2009 Drink Books of the Year from the Wine & Spirits Magazine, for From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Richard Mendelson)

October 2009: Drink Books of the Year from the Wine & Spirits Magazine, for The Finest Wines of Tuscany and Central Italy: A Regional and Village Guide to the Best Wines and Their Producers (Nicholas Belfrage MW)

October 2009: 2009 National Book Award Finalist in Poetry from the National Book Foundation, for Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (Keith Waldrop)

October 2009: Kurt Weill Prize from the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, for Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937 (Joshua Goldstein)

October 2009: Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, for The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization (Paul Froese)

October 2009: Robert B Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association, for Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (Alexander Laban Hinton)

October 2009: Robert B Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association, for Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (Edited by Alexander Laban Hinton)

October 2009: Sara Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association, for The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (Miliann Kang)

October 2009: Japan - U. S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, for Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako (Tada Chimako)

September 2009: Certificate of Merit from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, for Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Gabriel Solis)

September 2009: AHS Book Award from the Association for Humanist Sociology, for Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (Laura Pulido)

September 2009: Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, for Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China (Susan Greenhalgh)

September 2009: Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize from the Society for Cultural Anthropology, for Insomniac (Gayle Greene)

August 2009: O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Poetry program of the Folger Shakespeare Library, for This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems (Juliana Spahr)

August 2009: Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society, for Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 (Dianne Sachko Macleod)

July 2009: Martin Ridge Award from the Historical Society of Southern California, for Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (William Deverell)

July 2009: Co-Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award from the Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association, for Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (Karyn R. Lacy)

July 2009: Finalist for the Bernard Schwartz Book Award from the Asia Society, for The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (David M. Lampton)

July 2009: C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Cracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods (Martín Sánchez-Jankowski)

July 2009: Awards for Excellence from the American Academy of Religion, for Friends of God: Islamic Images of Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood (John Renard)

July 2009: Finalist for the 2008 Utah Book Award in Nonfiction from the Utah Center for the Book, for Bargaining for Eden: The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America (Stephen Trimble)

July 2009: 2009 OIV Award in the Vitivinicultural Law Category from the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, for From Demon to Darling: A Legal History of Wine in America (Richard Mendelson)

July 2009: Co-Winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, for Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (Jana K. Lipman)

June 2009: Finalist for the Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism Award from the Jazz Journalists Association, for Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Amiri Baraka)

June 2009: Runner-Up for the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section from the American Sociological Association, for Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States (Rubén Hernández-León )

May 2009: William J. Goode Best Book Length Contribution to Family Sociology Award from the American Sociological Association, for Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home (Pamela Stone)

May 2009: Grand Prize Winner in Non-Fiction Next Generation Indie Book Award for Nightshift NYC (Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman)

May 2009: Grand Prize Winner in Non-Fiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Award, for Nightshift NYC (Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman)

May 2009: Finalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations, for The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (Jeremy Salt)

April 2009: Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, for Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955 (Allison Varzally)

April 2009: Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Cécile Whiting)

April 2009: 2009 Outstanding Book Awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, for Nightshift NYC (Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman)

April 2009: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation, for Gone: Poems (Fanny Howe)

April 2009: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation, for Selected Poems (Fanny Howe)

April 2009: Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from The Poetry Foundation, for The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (Fanny Howe)

April 2009: Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, for Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (Winifred Tate)

April 2009: J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research, for What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes (Jonathan Marks)

March 2009: 2009 Best Book Award from the United Association for Labor Education, for Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice , A new direction for labor by two of its leading activist intellectuals (Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin)

March 2009: Nominee for the 2009 Book Award from the James Beard Foundation, for The Wines of Burgundy (Clive Coates, M.W.)

March 2009: Shortlist of the And/Or Book Awards from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation, for Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema (Dan Streible)

March 2009: Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Awards from the Los Angeles Times, for Ours (Cole Swensen)

February 2009: PROSE AWARD from the Association of American Publishers, Inc., for Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of Culture, 1800-1940 (Dianne Sachko Macleod)

February 2009: Book Show Award from the Bookbuilders West , for Randolph Caldecott's Picture Books (Randolph Caldecott)

February 2009: Book Show Award from the Bookbuilders West , for Pressed in Time: American Prints 1905-1950 (Jessica Todd Smith and Kevin M. Murphy)

February 2009: Book Show Award from the Bookbuilders West , for The Poems of Mao Zedong ( Mao Zedong)

February 2009: Book Show Award from the Bookbuilders West , for M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens (Joan Reardon)

February 2009: Book Show Award from the Bookbuilders West , for Bordeaux/Burgundy: A Vintage Rivalry (Jean-Robert Pitte)

January 2009: Sociology of Religion Section Award from the American Sociological Association, for Reason to Believe: Cultural Agency in Latin American Evangelicalism (David Smilde)