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
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Winner of the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship
Co-Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Winner of a Gold Medal in Current Events, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association
Matthew Clair, Co-Winner of the Michael Harrington Award, Poverty, Class, and Inequality Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Co-Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Media for a Just Society Book Award, Evident Change
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the George Washington Prize, Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and George Washington’s Mount VernonWinner of the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center for the Constitution
One of Radio Times’s “books of the year from our columnists”
One of The New York Times' Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the HeartWinner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American PublishersWinner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, The Hellenic Centre
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the Best Book Award, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: PoliticsOne of Kirkus Reviews Best Big-Picture History Books of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020