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 2014 Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize, History of Science Society
Winner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Winner of the 2012 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, American Astronautical Society
Co-Winner of the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, Australian Government Department of Communications and the Arts
2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
2015 Silver Winner in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in Government & Politics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2018 Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association
Winner of the 2018 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2016 Best Book Award, Experimental Research Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the 2014 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2014 Salo Baron Prize, American Academy for Jewish Research
Co-Winner of the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2016 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies
A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in History 2015, chosen Tony Barber
A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in History 2015, chosen Tony Barber
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council