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 Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political ResearchCo-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Selected for The New York Times Book Review’s “What’s the Best Book, New or Old, You Read this Year?” 2016
One of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th CenturyWinner of the 1997 Herskovits Award, African Studies Association
Winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic InteractionWinner of the Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, Media Ecology Association
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity, In Memory of Dorothy Kripke
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Pre-1600Shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
One of History Today's Best Books of 2018
Winner of the Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science AssociationOne of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Co-winner of the 2019 Goldsmith Book Prize for Academic Books, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy SchoolOne of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Education (Practice and Theory), Association of American Publishers
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017Longlisted for the 2017 Bronisław Geremek First Academic Book Prize, College of Europe
Co-Winner of the 2017 Herbert Jacob Book Award, Law and Society AssociationWinner of the 2017 Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2017 SSSP Global Division Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Co-Winner of the 2017 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, Division for Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Book Award, Section on Development of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Roberto Reis Book Prize, Brazilian Studies Association