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.
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Winner of the Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize, Georgetown Center for the ConstitutionFinalist for the George Washington Prize, Washington College, the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon
One of Radio Times’s “books of the year from our columnists”
Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America
Winner of the Pol Roger Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, The Hellenic Centre
Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American PublishersOne of The New York Times' Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the Heart
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
A NRC Book of the Year
An Untapped Cities Best Book of All Time
Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of ReligionWinner of the CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021
Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award
Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English