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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Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society AssociationWinner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award, Northeast Victorian Studies AssociationWinner of the Courage to Dream Book Prize, American Psychoanalytic Association
Winner of the ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award, Association for Information Science and TechnologyFinalist for the Rachel Carson Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science
Honorable Mention for the Best Scholarly Book, Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in HistoryWinner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology
Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018
Co-Winner of the 2015 AIP Science Writing Award for Books, American Institute of PhysicsOne of Physics World's Top Ten Books of the Year for 2014
One of The Guardian’s Best Popular Physical Science Books of 2014, chosen by GrrlScientist
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “The Writing that Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016”Selected for Canada’s Financial Post Best Personal Finance and Economics Books of 2016
One of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Winner of the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for ScholarshipWinner of the 2018 J.I. Segal English Non-fiction Award on a Jewish Theme, Jewish Public Library
Winner of the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2018 Bronze Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards