The Edwin Mellen Press has a long history of its authors and their books winning awards. As I review the lists, I find these to be especially notable:
Best Scholarly Work on Medieval Music and the University
The Harp and The Soul Studies in Early Medieval Music and Its Role in the Intellectual Climate of the Early University, edited by Nancy van Deusen
Winner of the 1992 Jewish Book Committee Award in recognition of excellence in literary scholarship
A. M. Klein, the Father of Canadian Jewish Literature Essays in the Poetics of Humanistic Politics by Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Winner of the Second Prize in the 1997 Competition of The International Napoleonic Society
Napoleonic Imperialism and the Savoyard Monarchy 1773-1821 State Building in Piedmont by Michael Broers
2001 Research Prize by Comite d’Historie de la Radiodiffusion
Pierre Descaves, Temoin Et Pionnier De la Radio Vol. 1 by Christopher Todd
Winner of the 2002 Jose Rollins de La Torre Bueno Prize in Dance Literature from the Dance Prespective Foundation
The Middle Eastern Influence on Late Medieval Italian Music Origins of the 29987 Istampittas by Michele Temple
Winner of the 2007 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology
Printing, Literacy, and Education in 18th Century Ireland: Why the Irish Speak English by Peter K. Fallon
Outstanding Academic Title of the Year by CHOICE
The Sociology of Law: A Bibliography of Theoretical Literature by A. Javier Treviño
2008 Finalist for an Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Excellence Award
Sprechstimme in Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire: A Study of Vocal Performance Practice by Aidan Soder
Runner Up for Wales Book of the Year, 2009 & Adele Mellen Prize for a Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
The Oldest British Prose Literature: The Compilation of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi by Nikolai Tolstoy
Winner of the 2010 Adele Mellen Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship in Folk Studies
Winner of the Katherine Briggs Book Award
Folk Tales, Tall Tales, Trickster Tales and Legends of the Supernatural from the Pinelands of New Jersey: Recorded and Annotated by Herbert Halpert between 1936 and 1951 by Herbert Halpert; edited with an introduction by J.D.A. Widdowson
Second Place Winner in the Arizona Author’s Association 2011 Published Nonfiction Book Award Contest
The Portrayal of Social Catastrophe in the German-Language Films of Austrian Filmmaker Michael Haneke (1942-): An Examination of The Seventh Continent (1989), Benny’s Video (1992), 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994), and Funny Games (1997) by Dennis Eugene Russell
