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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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider Winner of the 2018 Silver Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book Awards
2018 Silver Medal Winner in Finance/Investment/Economics, Independent Publisher Book Awards

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years' War to the Third Reich
Christopher Clark One of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History

99 Variations on a Proof
Philip Ording Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year

The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation
Solomon Maimon, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, and Abraham Socher Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Autobiography and Memoir

Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Mary Margaret Steedly Co-Winner of the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association
Co-Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize

Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World
John M. Headley Winner of the 1998 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance
Peter Godman Winner of the 1999 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, Literature of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference

The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy: Institutions, Markets, and Growth in the City-States
Alain Bresson Winner of the 2017 James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association

Of Sand or Soil: Genealogy and Tribal Belonging in Saudi Arabia
Nadav Samin Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies

City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut
Robyn Creswell Winner of the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University

Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America
Erika Lorraine Milam Winner of the Suzanne J. Levinson Prize, History of Science Society
Shortlisted for the Pickstone Prize, British Society for the History of Science

Two Cheers for Higher Education: Why American Universities Are Stronger Than Ever—and How to Meet the Challenges They Face
Steven Brint Co-Winner of the Emory Elliott Book Award, UCR Center for Ideas & Society
Honorable Mention for the Pierre Bourdieu Award for Best Book, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association
A Forbes' Pick for The Year's Best Books About Higher Education, 2019