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. 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 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great BritainWinner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject
Finalist for the Religion and the Arts Book Award, American Academy of Religion
Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English
A New Scientist "Don't Miss" BookOne of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America
Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Young Adults
Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEESWinner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust
Winner of the Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize, American Institute of Indian StudiesShortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University
Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
Shortlisted for the BASAS Book Prize, British Association for South Asian Studies
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, Arrowsmith Press
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsHonorable Mention for the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the ASHE Outstanding Book Award, Association for the Study of Higher EducationWinner of the AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Winner of the HES Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Art, Architecture, & Photography Book of Fall 2020One of The Sunday Times' Best Art Books of 2020
Winner of the PROSE Award in Biography & Autobiography, Association of American Publishers
Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association