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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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times
One of The Australian Review’s 2017 Books of the YearOne of The Guardian’s Best Books of 2017
Selected for Bloomberg View’s “Must-Reads of 2017: From Space to Chinese Noir”
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Kaushik Basu)
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category
Winner of the 2018 Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, Eastern Sociological SocietyCo-Winner of the 2017 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Otis Dudley Duncan Award, Section on Population of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2019 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Shortlisted for the 2018 European Studies Book Award, Council for European Studies
Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasHonorable Mention for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Winner of the John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: EconomicsOne of the Financial Times' Readers' Best Books of 2019
One of Business Insider's Richard Feloni's best books of 2019 on how we can rethink today's capitalism and improve the economy
A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the NAVSA Best Book of the Year, North American Victorian Studies Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show