Marla A. Ramírez wins numerous book awards

Marla A. Ramírez‘s (Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellow, 2023-2024) book Banished Citizens has garnered 11 book prizes and honorable mentions since publication in October 2025, including:

Named, 2025 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

Winner, Mary Nickliss Prize in U.S. Women’s and Gender History: Awarded by the Organization of American Historians to honor path-breaking books that challenge or change scholarly interpretations in women’s and/or gender history.

Winner, Philip Taft Labor History Award: Sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the Labor and Working-Class History Association for the year’s best book in American labor and working-class history.

Winner, Theodore Saloutos Book Award: Awarded by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for the year’s best book on the immigration history of the United States. 

Winner, First Book Award: Granted by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to recognize the work of an early career scholar in the field of U.S. immigration and ethnic history of the United States and/or North America.

Winner, David J. Weber Prize: Awarded to the Best Book in Southwestern American history by the Western History Association and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University.

Winner, Oral History Association First Book Prize: Awarded to a book that makes a significant contribution and advances theoretical issues in oral history.

Winner, Sal Castro Memorial Book Award in Chicano History: Awarded to the Best book in Chicano history by the Chicano/Latino Focus Group of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Finalist, 27th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize: Honors an outstanding, original interdisciplinary researched book in the humanities that appeals to both academic and wider audiences, Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M.