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 2008 Best Book Award, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Long-listed for the 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize
Winner of the 2017 PROSE Award in Education Practice, Association of American PublishersOne of Times Higher Education’s Books of the Year 2017 (chosen by John Bowers)
Winner of the 2009 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science AssociationWinner of the 2009 Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science AssociationOne of Times Higher Education's Best Books of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2015 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian StudiesWinner of the George L. Mosse Prize 2015, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
Honorable Mention for the 2015 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law and Society Association
Longlisted for the 2015 Historia Nova Prize, Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation and Academic Studies Press
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
One of Spirituality and Practice's 50 Best Spirituality Books of 2018
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018One of Marketwatch's Nonfiction Best of 2018 Books
Winner of the William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section of the American Political Science AssociationBest Book of the Year by one of Politico's Top 50 Thinkers (Sean McElwee)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers