The Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize

With support from the AAA, the HSAIG awards The Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize annually to a book of significance in the field of human sexuality.

Check back in spring 2026 for next year’s call for submissions!

2025 Prizes

Winner

Seductive Spirits: Deliverance,
Demons, and Sexual Worldmaking
in Ghanaian Pentecostalism

Nathaneal J. Homewood

Honorable Mention

Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World

Aslı Zengin

Past Winners

Past Honorable Mentions

2022

Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus

Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan