Awards and Reviews
University of Hawai‘i Press books are frequently selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles and often recognized by the Hawai`i Book Publishers’ Association’s Ka Palapala Po‘okela awards. University of Hawai‘i Press books have also been honoured with prestigious awards such as the Harry J. Benda Prize and the John Whitney Hall Prize.
Award-winning titles available via Hawai‘i Scholarship Online include:
- Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace, by Ann Marie Leshkowich — 2016 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies
- Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania, by Diana Looser — 2016 Rob Jordan Prize from the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
- Dubious Gastronomy: The Cultural Politics of Eating Asian, by Robert Ji-Song Ku — 2014–2015 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in the Adult Non-Fiction Category
- Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan, by John K. Nelson — 2014 Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism
- Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History in Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i, by Isaiah Walker — 2014 Baldridge Book Award
- Burning Money: The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld, by Fred Blake — shortlisted for the 2013 International Congress of Asian Studies Book Prize in the Social Science category
- Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, by Lori Meeks — 2012 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies
- Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia, by Evelyn Blackwood — 2011 Ruth Benedict Single-Authored Book Prize from the American Anthropological Association’s Association for Queer Anthropology
- Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America, by Wei Li — 2011 award for the best social science book from the Association of Asian American Studies
- Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China, by Robert Ford Campany — 2009 award for the best book in Historical Studies from the American Academy of Religion; honorable mention for the 2010 Joseph Levenson Prize, pre-1900 category, from the Association for Asian Studies
- Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF: South Korean Popular Religion in Motion, by Laurel Kendall — 2010 Yim Suk Jay Prize from the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology
- Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics, by Niko Besnier — 2009 book prize from the British Association for Applied Linguistics
- Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature, by Tomoko Aoyama — 2010 Mid-Career Researcher Prize for Excellence in Asian Studies from the Asian Studies Association of Australia
- Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China, by Christine Mollier — 2008 Stanislas Julien Prize from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
