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 Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2016
Co-Winner of the 2017 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Africa / MalawiWinner of the 2018 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the 2018 Melville J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association
The 2018 Medieval Book of the Year
Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical AssociationHonorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Arts of the Present
Shortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Michèle Lamont (co-author), Winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation
Winner of the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society AssociationHonorable Mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation
One of BookAuthority’s Three Best New Robotics Audiobooks To Read in 2019
Winner of the 2015 Best Scholarly Edition in Translation, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner of the 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association
Winner of the Alfred H. Barr Award Jr. Award, College Art AssociationWinner of the Art Exhibitions PROSE award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Award for Excellence, Association of Art Museum Curators