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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Winner of the Easton Award, Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the Easton Award, Foundations of Political Thought section of the American Political Science Association
Shortlisted for the Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
Shortlisted for the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
Honorable Mention for the Journal of the History of Philosophy Book Prize
One of Next Big Idea Club's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Spring
Winner of the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians
Shortlisted for the RHS Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
Shortlisted for the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019
Winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize, The International Conference for the Study of Political Thought
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: From Space to Chinese Noir”
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kaushik Basu)
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Winner of the ASA Best Book Prize, African Studies Association
Winner of the First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Co-Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics & History Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the ISA Theory Best Book, Theory Section of the International Studies Association
One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2020
One 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 2012
Shortlisted for the 2018 C.B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
2017 Bronze Winner in Philosophy, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Winner of a 2018 Outstanding Achievement Title Award, Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the year 2014, chosen by Thom Shippey
Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015
Winner of the 2003 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2009 Alexander L. George Book Award of the International Society of Political Psychology
Finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award in History
A New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Honor Award for 2012
Avishai Margalit, Winner of the 2012 Ernst-Bloch-Prize
One of Amazon.com's Best Nonfiction Books for 2005
Winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
Winner of the David Easton Award
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Harry G. Frankfurt, 2017 Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies
Harry G. Frankfurt, Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies
Winner of the Bestseller Award in Philosophy, The Book Standard
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
Harry G. Frankfurt, Charles Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer, American Council of Learned Societies
Winner of the Bestseller Award in Philosophy, The Book Standard
Finalist for the French-American Translation Prize, French-American Foundation
Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998
Winner of the 1997 Book Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal