Selected Book and Article Awards in 2024
Ekaterina V. Botchkovar, Undergraduate Program Director; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Springer Outstanding American Journal of Criminal Justice Article for “When Your School is in a ‘Rough’ Neighborhood: What Can Shield Youth from Crime and Delinquency?”
Elizabeth Bucar, Professor of Religion; Dean’s Leadership Fellow
Finalist for Excellence in the Study of Religion for Stealing My Religion
Maria Ivanova, Director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Professor of Public Policy
One of the Most Influential MIT Press Books for The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty
The MIT Press Impact Report
Denise Khor, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Visual Studies and Associate Director of Asian American Studies
2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for Transpacific Convergences: Race, Migration, and Japanese American Film Culture before World War II
Sharmila Murthy, Professor of Law and Public Policy
Selected as One of the Top Academic Articles that Presents Legal and Policy Solutions to Pressing Environmental Problems for “Disrupting Utility Law for Water Justice”
Sasha Sabherwal, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Asian Studies
2025 Outstanding Emerging Scholar Research Article Award (Honorable Mention) for “The Elasticity of Caste in the Sikh Diaspora: Jat Cool and Caste Masculinities in the Pacific Northwest”
Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Social Science Caucus
Philip Thai, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies; Director of Global Asian Studies
Philip Scranton Best Article Prize for “A Risky Business: The Tai Ping Insurance Company and Fire Insurance in China, 1928– 1937”
Korey Tillman, Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice; Assistant Professor, Africana Studies
Kimberlé Crenshaw Article Award Winner for “Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence”