Theodore Saloutos Book Award

Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation.

(Harvard University Press, 2025)

John Doe Chinaman. A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law.

(Harvard University Press, 2025)

The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration

(Princeton University Press, 2024)

Omar Valerio-Jimenez, Remembering Conquest: Mexican Americans, Memory and Citizenship

(University of North Carolina Press, 2024)

The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

(Oxford University Press, 2023)

Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation,

(University of North Carolina Press, 2023)

Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World.

(Oxford University Press, 2023)

Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.

(University of California Press, 2022)

(University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

(University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America,

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)

The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.

(New York: New York University Press, 2021)

Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War.

(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020)

The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.

(Princeton University Press, 2020)

Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean.

(Princeton University Press, 2019)

Rise of the Latino Vote: A History.

(Harvard University Press, 2019)

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press)

Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific.

(Oakland: University of California Press, 2018)

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.

(Oxford University Press, 2017)

Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

(University of North Carolina Press, 2017)

Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom.

(University of North Carolina Press)

The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril became the Model Minority.

(Princeton University Press)

Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the US South Since 1910.

(University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border.

(University of California Press)

Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. 

(Harvard University Press, 2014)

The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.

(Princeton University Press, 2013)

Bengali Harlem: Exploring the Lost Histories of South Asian America.

(Harvard University Press, 2013)

Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on American Immigration.

(Princeton University Press, 2012)

Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders. 1885-1928.

(Yale University Press)

Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City.

(University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.

(University of North Carolina Press, 2010)

In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy.

(The University of California Press, 2009)

Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955.

(The University of California Press, 2008)

From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952.

(Princeton University Press, 2007)

The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and the American Identity.

(Princeton University Press, 2006)

Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.

(Oxford University Press, 2005)

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.

(Princeton University Press, 2004)

At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.

(University of North Carolina Press, 2003)

More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa.

(University Press of Florida, 2002)

American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.

(Princeton University Press, 2001)

From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration.

(Yale University Press, 2000)

Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World.

(Harvard University Press, 1999)

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.

(University of North Carolina Press, 1998)

The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917.

(University of North Carolina Press, 1997)

Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940.

(Princeton University Press, 1996)

Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law.

(University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace.”

(Basic Books, 1994)

Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.

(Oxford University Press, 1993)

Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.

(Louisiana State University Press 1992)

The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture.

(University Press of New England, 1991)

An Immigrant Success Story: East Indians in America.

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990)

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.

(Oxford University Press, 1989)

A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Midwest, 1835-1915.

(University of Wisconsin Press, 1988)

The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985.

(University of Illinois Press, 1987)

Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.

(Alfred A. Knopf, 1986)

From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Midwest.

(Cambridge University Press, 1985)

The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945.

(New York: Pantheon Books, 1984)

The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society.

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983)