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
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Winner of the 2019 I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year, Islamic Republic of Iran
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
Winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
Winner of a 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, U.S. National Winner in “Tea”Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society
Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2019
Shortlisted for the Alice Award, Furthermore grants in publishing
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Economics
One of 20 essential books about the Middle East, compiled by the Middle Eastern Studies community at Anhui University in central China
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: HistoryOne of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: History
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Economics
Winner of the ISA Theory Best Book, Theory Section of the International Studies Association