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. 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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Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award
Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEESWinner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN AmericaOne of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science
A New Scientist "Don't Miss" Book
Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Young Adults
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsHonorable Mention for the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the ASHE Outstanding Book Award, Association for the Study of Higher EducationWinner of the AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Winner of the HES Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
Winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural HistoriansShortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers
Winner of the 2015 Bronze Medal in Economics, Axiom Business Book AwardsOne of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of FA-mag.com’s Books of the Year 2014
One of "The Books Quartz Read" in 2014
One of Minnpost.com’s ‘Three (plus) books for the econ buff on your list’ 2014
Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2014
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
Zena Hitz, Winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas InstituteSeminary Coop's Notable Books for 2020
A London Lyceum Top Book of the Year
One of The New York Times's 11 Books to Watch For in MayA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Forrest Stuart, Winner of a MacArthur fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationWinner of the CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology & Sociology, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies