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2024

imprint usuThe Dual Enrollment Kaleidoscope, edited by Christine Denecker and Casie Moreland
2024 Outstanding Edited Collection Award, CCCC 

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Disrupting the Center, by Rebecca Hallman Martini
2024 Advancement of Knowledge Award, CCCC 

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Composing Place, by Jacob Greene
2024 Research Impact Award, Honorable Mention, CCCC

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Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent, by Allison Mickel
2023 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award, Best Book on Archaeology

2023

imprint usuStories of Becoming, by Claire Lutkewitte, Juliette C. Kitchens & Molly J. Scanlon
2023 Research Impact Award, Honorable Mention, CCCC 

imprint usuQueerly Centered, by Travis Webster
2023 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Book Award, CCCC

imprint usuReprogrammable Rhetoric, edited by Michael J. Faris & Steve Holmes
2023 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

imprint upcMining Irish-American Lives, by Alan J. M. Noonan
2023 McGowan Prize, Irish American Cultural Institute

imprint usuWriting Placement in Two-Year Colleges, edited by Jessica Nastal, Mya Poe, and Christie Toth
2022 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award

imprint usuBodies of Knowledge, edited by A. Abby Knoblauch & Marie E. Moelller
2022 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award, honorable mention

imprint usuWriting Enriched Curricula, edited by Chris M. Anson & Pamela Flash
2021 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award
2023 Best WAC Edited Collection, honorable mention

imprint usuMasking Inequality with Good Intentions, by Heather M. Falconer
2023 Best Monograph on Writing Across the Curriculum

University of Alaska PressSpirit Things, by Lara Messersmith-Glavin
2023 WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction, Women Writing the West

imprint usuCounterStories from the Writing Center, edited by Wonderful Faison & Frankie Condon
2023 Internationalonal Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

imprint upcPilgrimage to Broken Mountain, by Alan R. Sandstrom & Pamela Effrein Sandstrom
2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

2022

imprint upcThe Greater Chaco Landscape, edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke & Carrie C. Heitman,
2022 Popular Book Award, Society of American Archaeology

imprint usuBlack or Right, by Louis M. Maraj
2022 Outstanding Book Award, CCCC

imprint usuSixteen Teachers Teaching, edited by Patrick Sullivan
2022 Outstanding Book Award, Edited Collection, CCCC

imprint usuTransforming Ethos, by Rosanne Carlo
2022 Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention, CCCC

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Effective Teaching of Technical Communication, edited by Michael J. Klein
2022 Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication, CCCC

imprint upcProfiting from the Peak, by John Harner
2021 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers

imprint upcForced Out, by Judy Y. Kawamoto
2022 Adult Non-Fiction Literature Honor Title, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
2022 Evans Handcart Award, Utah State University

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Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent, by Allison Mickel
2022 Williamson Prize, LeHigh University

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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface Is Medicine, by Ann Fienup-Riordan
2022 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award

imprint usuNorth American Monsters, edited by David Puglia
2022 Brian McConnell Book Award, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

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The Reed Smoot Hearings, edited by Michael Harold Paulos & Konden Smith Hansen
2022 Best Anthology, John Whitmer Historical Association

imprint usuQueerly Centered, by Travis Webster
2022 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

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Gold Metal Waters, edited by Brad T. Clark & Pete McCormick
2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

imprint usuBlack or Right, by Louis M. Maraj
2022 Outstanding Book Award, National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division

imprint usuToward Translingual Realities in Composition, by Nancy Bou Ayash
Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Modern Language Association

imprint usuProvocations of Virtue, by John Duffy
Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association

2021

Toward Translingual Realities in Composition, by Nancy Bou Ayash
2021 Research Impact Award, cowinner, CCCC 

Institutional Ethnography, by Michelle LaFrance
2021 Research Impact Award, cowinner, CCCC 

Black or Right, by Louis M. Maraj
2021 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award, Honorable Mention

Colorado Women in World War II, by Gail M. Beaton
2021 WILLA Literary Awards Finalist in Scholarly Nonfiction, Women Writing the West

The Greater Chaco Landscape, edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke & Carrie C. Heitman
2021 Engaged Anthropology Award, American Anthropological Association

Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic, by Jessie Borgman & Casey McArdle
2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines, edited by Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Elena G. Garcia, Soo Hyon Kim, Katie Manthey, and Trixie G. Smith
2021 Best WAC Edited Collection

Institutional Ethnography, by Michelle LaFrance
2021 Best WAC Monograph, Honorable Mention

Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers, edited by Shannon Madden, Michele Eodice, Kirsten T. Edwards, & Alexandria Lockett
2021 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

Rewriting Partnerships, by Rachael W. Shah
2021 Coalition for Community Writing Outstanding Book Award

Wild Rivers, Wild Rose, by Sarah Birdsall
2021 WILLA Literary Award in Historical Fiction, Women Writing the West

Rewriting Partnerships, by Rachael W. Shah
2021 Publication of the Year, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent, by Allison Mickel
2021 G. Ernest Wright Book Award, American Society of Overseas Research

Mountain Witches: Yamauba, by Noriko T. Reider
2021 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society

2020

Key Theoretical Frameworks, edited by Angela M. Hass and Michelle F. Eble
2020 CCCC Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication

Yellowstone Cougars, by Toni K. Ruth, Polly C. Buotte, and Maurice G. Hornocker
The Wildlife Society’s 2020 Wildlife Publication Award, Authored Book Category

The Archive as Classroom, edited by Kathryn Comer, Michael Harker, and Ben McCorkle
2019 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention

Thanks for Watching, by Patricia G. Lange
2020 Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, National Communication Association

The Minuses, by Jami Macarty
2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, Poetry- AZ

The Kiss of Death, by Andrea Kitta
2020 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society 

Leisure and Death, edited by Adam Kaul and Jonathan Skinner
2020 Ed Bruner Prize, American Anthropological Association Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group

Radical Writing Center Praxis, by Laura Greenfield
2020 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

2019

Network Sense, by Derek N. Mueller, co-published with the WAC Clearinghouse
2019 Research Impact Award, CCCC 

Distant Islands, by Daniel H. Inouye
2018 Immigration and Ethnic History Society First Book Award, Honorable Mention

Legend Tripping, edited by Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker
2019 Brian McConnell Book Award, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity, edited by Seth Kahn, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek, co-published with the WAC Clearinghouse
2019 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award

Out in the Center, edited by Harry Denny, Robert Mundy, Liliana M. Naydan, Richard Sévère, and Anna Sicari
2019 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award, cowinner

2018

Reclaiming Accountability, edited by Wendy Sharer, Tracy Ann Morse, Michelle F. Eble, and William P. Banks
2018 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award

Writing Program Architecture, by Jamie White-Farnham
2018 Excellence in Scholarship award, University of Wisconsin–Superior

Beautiful Flesh, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind
2018 Colorado Book Award, Anthology, Colorado Humanities

Cámara Retórica, by Alexandra Hidalgo
2017 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

Land, Politics, and Memory in Five Nija’ib’ K’iche’ Títulos, by Mallory E. Matsumoto
2018 New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, Honorable mention

Crossing Divides, edited by Bruce Horner and Laura Tetreault
2018 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Modern Language Association

Unitary Caring Science, by Jean Watson
2018 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Education/Continuing Education/Professional Development, third place

2017

Transnational Writing Program Administration, edited by David S. Martins
2017 Outstanding Book Award, CCCC

Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story, edited by Lisa King, Rose Gubele, and Joyce Rain Anderson
2017 Outstanding Book Award, Honorable Mention, CCCC

The Verging Cities, by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
2017 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

Hemming Flames, by Patricia Colleen Murphy
2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award

The Man Who Thought He Owned Water, by Tershia d'Elgin
2017 Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, Colorado Humanities

Yellowstone National Park, by Bradly J. Boner
2017 Pub West Book Design Award (Bronze)

Hosea Stout, by Stephen L. Prince
2017 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association

Taken from the Paradise Isle, edited by Heidi Kim
2017 Ka Palapala Po'okela Aloha from Across the Sea Award, Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association

Good Water, by Kevin Holdsworth
2017 15 Bytes Book Award, Finalist, Creative Nonfiction

New Mexico and the Pimería Alta, edited by John G. Douglass and William M. Graves
2017 Arizona Literary Award, Published Nonfiction)
2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist

The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors, edited by Nicole I. Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Rebecca Jackson
2017 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

“The Touch of Civilization”
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Navajo Textiles
2017 Southwest Books of the Year

2016

Naming What We Know, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
2016 Council for Writing Program Administration Special Award for Outstanding Scholarship

Still Life with Rhetoric, by Laurie Gries
2016 Advancement of Knowledge Award, CCCC 
2016 Research Impact Award, CCCC 

The Verging Cities, by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
2016 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
NACCS-Tejas Foco Best Poetry Book of 2015
2016 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry finalist
2016 Utah Book Award for Poetry, Utah Center for the Book

Techne, by Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander
2016 Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship’s Book Award, CCCC

A Chorus of Cranes, by Paul A. Johnsgard, photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen
Jan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award finalist

Old Blue's Road, by James Whiteside
2016 Colorado Book Award finalist, Colorado Humanities

2015

Writing across Contexts, by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak
2015 Research Impact Award, CCCC
2015 Council for Writing Program Administration Best Book Award

Thiefing a Chance, by Rebecca Prentice
Society for the Anthropology of Work 2015 Book Prize

Very Like a Whale, by Edward M. White, Norbert Elliot, and Irvin Peckham
2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in Program Assessment

The Logan Notebooks, by Rebecca Lindenberg
2015 Utah Book Award for Poetry, Utah Center for the Book

2014

Life on the Rocks, by Bruce L. Smith
2014 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature & Environment and Design & Artistic Merit

Unsettling Assumptions, edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye
2014 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, honorable mention, American Folklore Society

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers, by Jackie Grutsch McKinney
2014 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

Yellowstone Wildlife, by Paul Johnsgard with photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen
2014 Nebraska Book Award, Non-Fiction: Natural History

Sacred Darkness, edited by Holley Moyes
2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Yellowstone Wildlife, by Paul Johnsgard with photographs by Thomas D. Mangelsen
2014 Southwest Book Design and production Award, Trade Book Illustrated

Soils, Climate, and Society, edited by John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes
2014 Southwest Book Design and Production Award, Scholarly and Technical

Con Job​, ​by ​​Megan Fulwiler and Jennifer Marlow
2014 Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Scholarship Award, Computers and Composition

2013

Books, Bluster and Bounty, by Susan Swetnam
2012 Idaho Book of the Year, Idaho Library Association

Colorado Women, by Gail M. Beaton
2013 WILLA Literary Awards Finalist in Scholarly Nonfiction, Women Writing the West

Santa Rita del Cobre, by Christopher J. Huggard and Terrence M. Humble
The Clark Spence Award, Mining History Association

The Menial Art of Cooking, edited by Sarah R. Graff and Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, designed by Daniel Pratt
2013 PubWest Book Design Awards Silver Award, Academic/Non-Trade Book

The House on Lemon Street, by Mark Rawitsch
Crader Family Book Prize in American Values

Coal in our Veins, by Erin Ann Thomas
2012 Evans Handcart Award, Utah State University

I Hope I Join the Band, by Frankie Condon
2013 Top Five "Must Reads", Educators Award Committee of the Delta Kappa Gamma Society International

Technologies of Wonder, by Susan H. Delagrange
2013 Outstanding Book Award, CCCC 

Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times, by Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe
2013 Research Impact Award, CCCC
2013 Advancement of Knowledge Award, CCCC 

2012

Santa Rita del Cobre, by Chris Huggard and Terrence Humble
Howard Bryan Western History Award
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association

Denver Inside and Out
Colorado Book Award, finalist, Colorado Humanties

Helen Ring Robinson, by Pat Pascoe
Colorado Book Award, finalist, Colorado Humanties

Coffee and Community, by Sarah Lyon
Society for Economic Anthropology Book Award

Through the Schoolhouse Door, by Paddy Bowman and Lynn Hamer
2012 Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize

Writing Centers and the New Racism, edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan
2012 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book Award

A History of Utah Radicalism, by John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito
2012 Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical Society

Technologies of Wonder, by Susan H. DeLagrange
2012 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award

Diverse by Design, by Christopher Schroeder
2012 CCCC Research Impact Award

The Trail of Gold and Silver, by Duane Smith
The Clark Spence Award, Mining History Association

Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City," by Alcira Duenas
Thomas McGann Award, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Jonathan Rees, author of Representation and Rebellion
Annual Historic Preservation Award from the Pueblo County Historical Society

The New Work of Composing, by Cheryl Ball, Debra Journet, and Ryan Trauman
2012 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

2011

In the Blood, by Burt Feintuch and Gary Samson
2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal

Going North Thinking West, by Irvin Peckham
2011 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention

Technologies of Wonder, by Susan H. DeLagrange
2011 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

2010

Japanese American Resettlement through the Lens, by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi with Kenichiro Shimada, photographs by Hikaru C. Iwasaki
Adult Non-Fiction Literature Honor Title, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature
Southwest Book Design & Production Awards: Best Illustrated Trade Book and Best in Show

The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt, by Ronald G. Watt
2009 Evans Handcart Award, Utah State University

Exploring Desert Stone, by Steven K. Madsen
2010 Southwest Books of the Year

The Activist WPA, by Linda Adler-Kassner
2010 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award

Before the Manifesto, by Melissa L. Milewski
2010 Western Association of Women Historians Kanner Award

Comb Ridge and Its People, by Robert S. McPherson
2009 Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, Utah Center for the Book

2009

The River Knows Everything, by James M. Aton
2009 Finalist, Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, Utah Center for the Book

Dangerous Writing, by Tony Scott
2009 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention

Representations, by LuMing Mao and Morris Young
2009 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Honorable Mention, Modern Language Association

Mormonism's Last Colonizer, by William B. Smart
2009 Evans Handcart Award, Utah State University
2009 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association

Mrs. Ramsay's Knee, by Idris Anderson
2009 Pushcart Prize XXXIV

The Meaning of Folklore, by Simon J. Bronner
2009 Wayland D. Hand Prize, American Folklore Society

2008

Hard as the Rock Itself, by David Robertson
2008 Kniffen Award, Pioneer American Society

Kevin Holdsworth, author of Big Wonderful
2009 Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship in fiction

The Arc and the Sediment, by Christine Allen-Yazzie
2008 Utah Book Award for Fiction, Utah Center for the Book
2007 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal
2007 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition Publication Prize

Bear River, by Craig Denton
2008 Utah Book Award for Nonficttion, Finalist, Utah Center for the Book

Haunting Experiences, by Diane E. Goldstein, Jeannie Banks Thomas, and Sylvia Ann Grider
2008 Brian McConnell Book Award, International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

Religion, Politics, and Sugar, by Matthew Godfrey
2008 Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association

The Meaning of Folklore, by Alan Dundes, edited by Simon J. Bronner
2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

2007

White Man's Paper Trail, by Stan Hoig
Oklahoma Book Award, finalist, Oklahoma Center for the Book

Recollections of Past Days, edited by Sandra Ailey Petree
2007 Best Documentary Book in Utah History, Smith-Pettit Foundation
2007 Evans Biography Award, Utah State University

2006

Distant Bugles, Distant Drums, by Flint Whitlock
Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association

Proverbs Are the Best Policy, by Wolfgang Mieder
2006 Wayland D. Hand Prize, American Folklore Society

Polygamy on the Pedernales, by Melvin C. Johnson
2006 Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association

The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847, by Ronald Barney
2006 Best Utah Documentary History Book, Utah State Historical Society

Castle Valley, America, by Nancy Taniguchi
2006 Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History
2004 Best Book in Utah History, Utah Historical Society

2005

Prairie Ghost, edited by Richard McCabe, Bart W. O'Gara, and Henry M. Reeves
Outstanding Book, The Wildlife Society

Pronghorn, edited by Bart W. O'Gara and Jim D. Yoakum
Editorship Book Award, The Wildlife Society.

Mapping Identity, by Laura Woodworth-Ney
Idaho Book Award, Finalist, Idaho Library Association

Native Pathways, edited by Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill, for Jessica Cattelino's chapter, "Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminol Economic Development"
Arrell M. Gibson Award, Western History Association

Industrializing the Rockies, by David A. Wolff
The Clark Spence Award, Mining History Association

The Boys of Winter, by Charles J. Sanders
Ullr Award for literature, International Ski History Association

Rain in the Valley, by Helen Papanikolas
2005 Utah Book Award for Fiction, Utah Center for the Book

High, Wide, and Handsome, edited by Roy Webb
2005 Southwest Books of the Year

Junius and Joseph, by Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister
2005 Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association
2005 Smith Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association

2004

Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, by Rick A. Adams
Colorado Book Award, Best Guidebook, Colorado Humanities

Bats of the Rocky Mountain West, by Rick A. Adams
2004 Southwest Books of the Year

Boomtown Blues, by Andrew Gulliford
Colorado Book Award, Co-Winner, Colorado and the West, Colorado Humanities

The Terminal Classic in the Maya Lowlands, by Arthur A. Demarest, Prudence M. Rice, and Don S. Rice
2004 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

The Anguish of Snails, by Barre Toelken
2004 Chicago Folklore Prize

Listening for a Life, by Patricia Sawin
2004 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society

A Widow's Tale, edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd Compton, Introduction, Notes, and Register, by Todd Compton
2004 Best Documentary Award, Mormon History Association
2004 WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction, Women Writing the West

The Center Will Hold, edited by Michael M. Hatch and Joyce Kinkead
2004 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award
2004 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book

2003

From Imperial Myth to Democracy, by Lawrence W. Beer and John M. Maki
2003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Disaster at the Colorado, by Charles W. Baley
2003 Second Prize for Best Non-Fiction, Westerners International

Pedro Pino, by E. Richard Hart
2003 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico

English Composition as a Happening, by Geoffrey Sirc
2003 W. Ross Winterowd Award, Most Outstanding Book in Composition Theory

2002

Colcha, by Aaron Abeyta
American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Noise from the Writing Center, by Elizabeth H. Boquet
2002 Outstanding Research and Publication Award, NE Writing Centers Association

Mormon Healer and Folk Poet, by Margaret K. Brady
2002 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society

One Side by Himself, by Ronald O. Barney
2002 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association
2002 Evans Biography Award, Utah State University

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