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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One of Pop Matter's Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
One of American Institute of Graphic Arts’ Top 50 Books / 50 Covers of 2021
Times Critics' Top Art Books of 2019
Runner-Up for the 2018 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies AssociationOne of Foreign Affairs' Best Books
Winner of the 2018 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political PsychologyWinner of the 2018 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Winner of the 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
New Zealand Listener's Best Book of 2019One of FiveBooks' Best Climate Books of 2019
Winner of the James Short Senior Scholar Award, Communities and Place Division of the American Society of Criminology
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Archaeology and Ancient History, Association of American PublishersOne of the Evening Standard's Best Books of 2019
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Economics
Shortlisted for the John Florio Prize, The Society of Authors
Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the MSA First Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association
Winner of the George McT. Kahin Prize, Association for Asian StudiesWinner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018