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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“Book Title of the Year,” as selected for Curbed.com’s Architecture in 2015: A Year in Review
Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2018 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association
Shortlisted for the 2018 Africa-Asia ICAS Book Prize, International Convention of Asia Scholars and Association for Asian Studies in Africa
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association
Runner-Up for the 2018 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association’s International Organization Section
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: EconomicsOne of Bloomberg’s Best Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kermal Dervi )
Winner of the 2019 George S. Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing, Columbia Business School
Winner of the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society AssociationWinner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2019 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Finalist for the 2018 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of PlanningCo-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the 2018 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2018 Ab Imperio Award, KRES Poliskola
One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017