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 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion
Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Consumers and Consumption Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of a 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Award, National Winner in “Culinary History”
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2016
One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Africa / MalawiWinner of the 2018 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association
Finalist for the 2018 Melville J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association
Honorable Mention for the 2017 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
Co-Winner of the 2017 Alexander L. George Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology2017 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association
The 2018 Medieval Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Arts of the Present
Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association
Shortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present