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.
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A Publishers Weekly Fall Art, Architecture & Photography Preview Top 10
A Washington Post Best Art Book of the YearA Bookforum Best Art Book of the Year
Honorable Mention for the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Arts and Art History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2002 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for pre-1999 China
Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of PlanningWinner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History
An Apollo Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art History and Criticism, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationShortlisted for the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award, Textile Society of America
One of American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019
A Verge Readers Best Tech Book of All Time
Winner of the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in PublishingFinalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association
Winner of the ALAA Thoma-Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, Association for Latin American Art
Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana UniversityWinner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies
Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
Shortlisted for the BASAS Book Prize, British Association for South Asian Studies
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title in Fine Arts
Winner of the inaugural Architecture Book of the Year Award, Technical Category
Peter Eisenman, Winner of the Kanter Tritsch Medal for Excellence in Architecture and Environmental Design, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Winner of the Alfred H. Barr Award Jr. Award, College Art AssociationWinner of The Photography Network Book Prize
Shortlisted for Apollo's Book of the Year 2020
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great BritainWinner of the President’s Award for Research in History and Theory, Royal Institute of British Architects
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2020: Architecture
Winner of the First Book Prize, International Planning History Society
Highly commended for the inaugural Architectural Book of the Year Award, History Category
Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
Times Critics' Top Art Books of 2019
“Book Title of the Year,” as selected for Curbed.com’s Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review
Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993
Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians
Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for Art and Music History, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural HistoriansOne of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019
Winner of the Alice David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians
Co-winner of the Triennial Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award for a Multi-Author Book, Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationWinner of a Catalogue Curatorial Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore grants in publishing
Winner of the Alfred H. Barr Award Jr. Award, College Art AssociationWinner of the Art Exhibitions PROSE award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators
Winner of the Silver Medal, Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Shortlisted for the WCGS Book Prize, Waterloo Centre for German StudiesA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2011 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies, South Asia CouncilOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Shortlisted for the 2018 DAM Architectural Book Award, Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
2018 Silver Medal Winner in Cover Design: Non-Fiction Oversize, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian StudiesOne of the Evening Standard Best Art Books of 2017 (chosen by David Ekserdijian)
One ofThe New York Times Best Art Books of 2017, chosen by Jason Farago
Finalist for the 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationShortlisted for 2017 “The Bridge” Book Award, American Initiative for Italian Culture
Runner-Up for the 2017 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize
Winner of the 2018 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Early Modern Art History, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
Finalist for the 2016 Marfield Prize, The National Award for Arts Writing, Arts Club of Washington
Shortlisted for the 2017 Urban Design Book Award, Urban Design Group
Winner of the Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American PublishersWinner of the 2016 Historic Preservation Book Prize, University of Mary Washington’s Center for Historic Preservation
Winner of the 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award (for Art and Architecture), The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Winner of the Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award, Society of Architectural Historians
Winner of the 1998 Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Prize, University of Colorado at Boulder
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Finalist for the 2012 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011
One of the The Daily Beast's (Brad Gooch) Favorite Books of the Year for 2010
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011Winner of the 2010 PROSE Award in in Art History & Criticism, Association of American Publishers
A ARTFORUM T. J. Clark Best Book of the Year for 2010
Winner of the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Arts and Art History, Association of American Publishers
Vincent Scully, Winner of the 2004 National Medal of Arts, National Endowment for the ArtsOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
Winner of the 2002 New York Book Show AwardKraszna-Krauz Special Commendation for the Best Book in Art in Culture and History 2002
Winner of the 2002 Mitchell Prize
Winner of the 1997 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996
Winner of the James R. Wiseman Award, Archaeological Institute of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994