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.

Nobel Prize–Winning Authors

Browse Awards¹⁸⁷¹

The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age
Steven Weitzman Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (In Memory of Dorothy Kripke)

The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
Richard Bookstaber Selected for Askblog’s Books of the year 2017

Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security
Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman One of Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2019

Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History
Matthew Simonton Co-Winner of the 2018 Runciman Award, The Anglo-Hellenic League

Religion: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters
Christian Smith Winner of the 2018 SSSR Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion

The Bounds of Agency: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics
Carol Rovane One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998

Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
Christopher J. Phillips Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine

The Emergence of Globalism: Visions of World Order in Britain and the United States, 1939–1950
Or Rosenboim Winner of the 2019 Francisco Guiccardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations, International Studies Association
Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017

Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel
Clayton Childress Co-Winner of the 2018 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association

Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism
Alexander Knysh Winner of the 2019 I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year, Islamic Republic of Iran

Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
Eve Krakowski Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)
Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History and Culture, Association for Jewish Studies

A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter
Andrew Hui One of FiveBooks' Best Philosophy Books of 2019