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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Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in Psychology, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2018 NJSAA Author Award for Popular Non-Fiction, New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance
Co-Winner of the 2018 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society
Winner of the 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science SocietyWinner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Education Theory, Association of American Publishers
Co-Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards, The Wildlife Society
Winner of the 2018 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
Winner of the 2018 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language AssociationWinner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies