The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas by Kathleen C. Schwartzman is winner of the 2013 William M. LeoGrande Prize for best book on U.S.-Latin American relations, given by the School of Public Affairs and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University

Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It by Morten Jerven and The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy toward Argentina by William Michael Schmidli were both named 2013 Foreign Affairs Magazine Best Books of the Year

Peacebuilding in Practice: Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns by Adam Moore is winner of the 2014 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award, given by the Political Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers

Zion’s Dilemmas: How Israel Makes National Security Policy by Charles D. Freilich is winner of the Tshetshik Prize in Security Studies given by the Institute for National Security Studies

Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients by Dan Zuberi is one of six finalists for the ForeWord Book of the Year in the Social Sciences (Adult Nonfiction) category

In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950 by Alice Conklin is winner of the 2014 Ohio Academy of History Publication Award