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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Winner of the 2016 Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction, Media Ecology Association
Winner of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Inside Philanthropy's Philanthropy Critic of 2018One of the LSE Marshall Institute's Books of 2019
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Co-Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Evolution, Biology, and Society Section, American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2018 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological AssociationLonglisted for the 2018 Spirited Awards Best New Book on Drinks, Culture, History, or Spirits, Tales of the Cocktail
Winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award, Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Co-Winner of the AIP Science Communication Book Award, American Institute of PhysicsLonglisted for the Young Adult Science Book Award, AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books
Finalist for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prizes for Excellence in Science Books, Young Adult Science Books
One of Inverse's Best Science Books of 2018
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
One of American Birding Podcast's Best Bird Books of 2018 (Nate Swick)One of British Birds' Best Bird Books of 2019
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Silver Medal, Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame