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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Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject

One 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


Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust

Shortlisted 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

Honorable 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 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