Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy by Suzanne Mettler is the winner of the Martha Derthick Best Book Award given by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Organized Section of the American Political Science Association

Putting the Barn Before the House by Grey Osterud is the winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award given by the Agricultural History Society

Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson O.P. is the winner of the Premio Flaiano Prize for Italian Studies given by the Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes

Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain by Richard Huzzey is Runner-up for the 2013 Whitfield Book Prize given by the Royal Historical Society

Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France by Naomi Davidson has received Honorable Mention for the 2012–2013 Alf Andrew Heggoy Book Prize given by the French Colonial Historical Society