Awards & Recognition

Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.

Nobel Prize–Winning Authors

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The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China
Tonio Andrade A Fortune Best Book of the Year

Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves
Dora C. Y. Ching Winner of the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize, Association for Asian Studies

Labor in the Age of Finance: Pensions, Politics, and Corporations from Deindustrialization to Dodd-Frank
Sanford M. Jacoby Shortlisted for the EGOS Book Award, European Group for Organizational Studies

The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II
Jonathan Haslam A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year 2021
A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2021

The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
Bruce J. Dickson A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America
Sarah Damaske Honorable Mention for the Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association
Winner of the William J. Goode Book Award, Family Section of the American Sociological Association

Trading at the Speed of Light: How Ultrafast Algorithms Are Transforming Financial Markets
Donald MacKenzie Winner of the Bronze Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards

Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Melissa Macauley Winner of the Bentley Book Prize, World History Association

The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World
William D. Nordhaus William D. Nordhaus, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books
A Project Syndicate Commentators' Best Reads of the Year
Winner of the Silver Medal in Philanthropy / Nonprofit / Sustainability, Axiom Business Book Awards
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Lucas Bessire Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West
Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History
Kansas Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West
Winner of the Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology

For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality
Dorothy Sue Cobble A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life
Tom Jones A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year