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 Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize, Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2016 George L. Mosse Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Winner of the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Alison Light
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Flavorwire’s 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
Winner of the 2016 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Winner of the 2016 Stansky Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Winner of the 2018 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
2016 Gold Medal Winner in World History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2015, selected by Alison Light
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Flavorwire’s 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015
Winner of the W.W. Howells Book Award, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association
2017 Regional Finalist in Science, ForeWord Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
2017 Regional Finalist in Science, ForeWord Reviews INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
Winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year?” 2016