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.
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Listed on the 2017 War on the Rocks Holiday Reading List
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin WolfFinancial Times Best Books in Economics of the Year
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Science Books of 2016One of Nature.com’s Top 20 Books for 2016
Shortlisted for the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young AdultsOne of American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2016 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor RelationsWinner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust
Winners of the 2016 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science AssociationSelected for The New York Times Book Review’s “The Year in Reading” 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological AssociationOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian StudiesOne of the Evening Standard Best Art Books of 2017 (chosen by David Ekserdijian)
One ofThe New York Times Best Art Books of 2017, chosen by Jason Farago
Winner of the 2002 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award
Finalist for the 2018 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art AssociationShortlisted for 2017 “The Bridge” Book Award, American Initiative for Italian Culture
Runner-Up for the 2017 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize
Winner of the 2018 Roland H. Bainton Prize in Early Modern Art History, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
One of Amazon.com’s 2013 Best Science BooksOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Mathematics, Association of American Publishers