Awards & Recognition
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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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearWinner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association
Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law & Society Association
Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize, New India Foundation
Honorable Mention for the Book of the Year Award, African Literature Association
Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Book in Cultural Studies Prize, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books
Honorable Mention for the Alexander Nove Prize, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies
Winner of the TSA/CUP Book Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University PressShortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association
One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books
Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
Winner of the Ed A Hewett Book Prize, Association for Slavic, Eastern European, & Eurasian Studies
Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore Grants in PublishingFinalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association
Winner of the ALAA Thoma-Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, Association for Latin American Art
Winner of the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in ScholarshipWinner of the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award, Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
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 Media for a Just Society Book Award, Evident Change
Winner of a Gold Medal in Current Events, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Co-Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association
Co-Winner of the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Winner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers