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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Shortlisted for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, British Sociological Association
Finalist for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, BC and Yukon Book PrizesNominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship
Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes
A New Yorker Best Book of the YearWinner of the National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies Category
Honorable mention for the Saul Veiner Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin Grand Prize, History, Literature and Fine Arts CategoryWinner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationWinner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies
Winner of the 2018 CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies AssociationWinner of the 2017 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion
Winner of the 2017 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2017 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic AnthropologyWinner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015
Winner of the 2009 Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ecology of Culture, Media Ecology AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Honorable Mention for the 2012 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers
Third Place for the 2013 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America
One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best International Relations Books in the Best Books on the Middle East category for 2012
Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern StudiesOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Winner of the 2007 Julian Steward Book Award, Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Finalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Winner of the 2015 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies
One of Choice's Editors' Picks, October 2012
Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of the British Sociological Association
Winner of the 1989 James H. Breasted Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute
Co-Winner of the 2013 Frances Hsu Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology
Winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology
Winner of the 2008 Margaret Mead Award
Winner of the 2012 Edward Sapir Book Prize, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
Winner of the 2010 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology
Winner of the 2011 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association
Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Winner of the 2009 New York City Book Award, New York Society LibraryWinner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies
Highly Commended 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Winner of the 2010 William A. Douglass Prize for Best Book in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological Association
Joint Winner of the 2008 Wellcome Medal for Medical Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute and the Wellcome TrustWinner of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
Winner of the 2006 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Winner of the 2009 Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work, American Anthropological Association
Winner of the 2007 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Winner of the 2006 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, South Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the J.I. Staley Prize
Winner of the 1993 James R. Wiseman Book Award, Archaeological Institute of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
Winner of the 1993 James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the 1992 Davenport Publication Award