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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Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America
Andy Baker, Barry Ames, and Lúcio Rennó Winner of the Best Book Award, Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association

Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowell Winner of the James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition
Edmund Fawcett One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Politics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Big-Picture History Books of 2020
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
A NRC Book of the Year

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution
Lila Corwin Berman Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
David Edmonds One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021

Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
Hélène Landemore Finalist for the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award

Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic
Dan-el Padilla Peralta Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Winner of the CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain
Sam Wetherell Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject

Apocalyptic Geographies: Religion, Media, and the American Landscape
Jerome Tharaud Finalist for the Religion and the Arts Book Award, American Academy of Religion

Prose Poetry: An Introduction
Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton Shortlisted for the Prize for Literary Scholarship, Australian University Heads of English

A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
Sean B. Carroll A New Scientist "Don't Miss" Book
One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America
Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Young Adults

Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
Roland Betancourt Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion