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 2005 Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award, British Ecological Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in History
Co-Winner of the 2007 Oliver Cromwell Cox Award, Race, Gender, and Class Sectionof the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Theology and Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award
Winner of the 2008 Texas Institute of Letters' Sourette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book
Of Note in the 2018 Freeman Book Awards (Young Adult / High School Books), Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University
One of American Birding Podcast's Best Bird Books of 2018 (Donna Schulman & Nate Swick)
One of American Birding Podcast's Best Bird Books of 2018 (Donna Schulman & Nate Swick)
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual, of the Association for Jewish StudiesFinalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History AssociationFinalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
One of MIT Technology Review’s Best Books of 2016