June 2008: Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship and Research Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Latino/a Sociology, for Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Robert Courtney Smith)
June 2008: Book Award in Asian Cooking from the James Beard Foundation, for My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking (Niloufer Ichaporia King)
June 2008: Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry from The Griffin Trust, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, Revised and Expanded Edition. (Robin Blaser)
June 2008: Lifetime Recognition Award from The Griffin Trust, for The Three Way Tavern: Selected Poems (Ko Un)
June 2008: Shortlist, Griffin Poetry Prize from The Griffin Trust, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)
June 2008: Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize from the Pacific Rim Voices, for The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Susan Mann)
June 2008: Finalist for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize from the Pacific Rim Voices, for East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons (Liza Dalby)
June 2008: 2008 Sociology of Labor Book Award from the American Sociological Association, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)
May 2008: Labor and Labor Movements from the American Sociological Association, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)
May 2008: Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, for Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (Robert Courtney Smith)
May 2008: 2008 Tony Nomination for David PIttu, "Best Featured Actor" for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)
May 2008: Audience Award Nominations for "Favorite New Broadway Play", "Favorite Leading Actor in a Broadway Play" (Norbert Leo Butz), "Favorite Diva Performance" (Norbert Leo Butz), and "Favorite Ensemble Cast" from the Broadway.com, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)
May 2008: "Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play" (David Pittu) from the Outer Critics Circle, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)
May 2008: 2007 Actors Equity Joe A. Callaway Award -- "the best performances in a professional production of a classic play (one written prior to 1920) in the New York metropolitan area" ( Byron Jennings) from the Actors Equity, for Is He Dead? A Comedy in Three Acts (Mark Twain)
May 2008: Canadian Jewish Book Award from the Koffler Centre of the Arts, for They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust (Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett)
May 2008: W.E. Fischelis Award from The Victorian Society in America, for Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter (Sylvia Yount, Kevin Sharp, Nina Auerbach, and Mark Bockrath)
May 2008: Short-listed for the Millia Davenport Publication Award from the Costume Society of America, for An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (Jill Fields)
April 2008: Best of Reference from the New York Library Association , for The Atlas of Religion (Joanne O'Brien and Martin Palmer)
April 2008: C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)
April 2008: Outstanding Book Award from the American Education Research Association, for Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (C. J. Pascoe)
April 2008: Best Book in the Food Reference/Technical category from the International Association of Culinary Professionals , for Food: The History of Taste (Edited by Paul Freedman)
April 2008: Finalist, Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, for Playing America's Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line (Adrian Burgos Jr.)
April 2008: The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from The Academy of American Poets, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)
April 2008: 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist from The Griffin Poetry Prize, for The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition (César Vallejo)
April 2008: 2008 Canadian and International Shortlist from the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry, for The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser, Revised and Expanded Edition. (Robin Blaser)
April 2008: Herbert Hoover Book Award Committee from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association, for Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (Daniel Hurewitz)
April 2008: NCIBA Book of the Year Award- Best Regional Title from The Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, for Historical Atlas of California (Derek Hayes)
March 2008: Planeta Book of the Year from the Planeta.com, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)
March 2008: Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)
March 2008: Finalist for C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Ching Kwan Lee)
March 2008: Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, for An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (Jill Fields)
March 2008: Nominee, Northern California Book Award from the Northern California Book reviewers, for Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics (Rebecca Solnit)
March 2008: Outstanding Academic Title from the American Library Association, for Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema (Haidee Wasson)
March 2008: Micahael C. Meyer Prize from the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, for Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico since the Civil War (John Mason Hart)
February 2008: Society for the Anthropology of North America for The Farmworkers' Journey (Ann Aurelia López)
February 2008: Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Author Award from the University of Texas at Austin and University Cooperative Society, for Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (Mark Metzler)
February 2008: ICAS Book Prizes from the International Convention of Asia Scholars, for Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan (Mark Metzler)
January 2008: Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, for The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (Sheldon Pollock)
January 2008: Barpujari Prize from the Indian History Congress, for Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire (Rajmohan Gandhi)
January 2008: Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthroplogy from the Royal Anthropological Institutions, for Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Harri Englund)
January 2008: Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthroplogy from the Royal Anthropological Institutions, for Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Harri Englund)
January 2008: Planeta Book of the Year from the Planeta.com, for Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival (Daniel Jaffee)
January 2008: Prize in Honor of Michael Jimenez from the Latin American Studies Association, for Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia (Winifred Tate)