2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press, 2022)

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons (University of California Press, 2019)

Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh (University of Washington Press, 2021)

The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (University Press of Florida, 2021)

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art (Open Book Publishers, 2023)

The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life (University of California Press, 2023)

Immaculate Sounds: The Musical Lives of Nuns in New Spain (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile (Duke University Press, 2022)

Healing with Poisons: Potent Medicines in Medieval China (University of Washington Press, 2021)

Music of a Thousand Years: A New History of Persian Musical Traditions (University of California Press, 2019)

At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators (University of California Press, 2022)

Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Open Book Publishers, 2019)

Black Disability Politics (Duke University Press, 2022)

The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity (Open Book Publishers, 2018)

Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature (Stanford University Press, 2023)

Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves (University of Michigan Press, 2021)

Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay (University of California Press, 2022)