Awards

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.

Nobel Prize–Winning Authors

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The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft
Robert I. Rotberg One of the International Affairs Blog Top 5 Books: December 2017

Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age
Matthew J. Salganik Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Textbook / Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 13: Logic
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Robert de Jager Jackson Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 14: Table Talk, Part I
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, and B. Winer Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
John K.G. Shearman Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 11: Shorter Works and Fragments: Volume I
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, H. J. Jackson, and James Robert de Jager Jackson Honorable Mention for the 2001 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Multivolume Reference: Humanities, Association of American Publishers

Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
John O'Brien Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association

Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
Yaacob Dweck Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture

Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
Matthew E. Kahn and Siqi Zheng Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Environmental Science, Association of American Publishers

Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion
Paul Frymer Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
Sarah L. Quinn Honorable Mention for the Theory Prize, Theory Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the Viviana Zelizer Award for Best Book, Economic Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
Jerald Podair Winner of the 2018 Dr. Harold and Dorothy Seymour Medal, Society for American Baseball Research
Finalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center