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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Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust

One 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

Honorable 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 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

Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Azure Magazine's Gift Guide: Seven Books for Distanced Design Lovers

One 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

Seminary Coop's Notable Books for 2020
A London Lyceum Top Book of the Year

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Winner 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