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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Winner of the 2019 I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year, Islamic Republic of Iran
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish StudiesWinner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)
Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)
Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of FiveBooks' Best Philosophy Books of 2019
Winner of the ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationWinner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in “Tea”Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society
Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
Winner of the Hagiography Society Book Prize
Co-winner of the Triennial Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award for a Multi-Author Book, Arts Council of the African Studies AssociationWinner of a Catalogue Curatorial Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Art Exhibitions, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore grants in publishing
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan InstituteOne of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Economics
A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearWinner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association