Awards
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.
Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
Browse Awards1904
One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History
Co-Winner of the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological AssociationCo-Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize
Winner of the 1998 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association
Winner of the 1999 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, Literature of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography and Memoir
Winner of the 2017 James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association
Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Honorable Mention for the Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological AssociationA Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019
Co-Winner of the Emory Elliott Book Award, UCR Center for Ideas & Society
Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History ConferenceEdward J. Balleisen, Winner of the 2018 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017