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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One of The Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2016, chosen by Andrew Motion
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in Anthologies and Collections, Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2017 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2017 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
James P. Hanlan Book Award, New England Historical AssociationWinner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University
Winner of the 2015 Chicago Folklore Prize, American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago
Winner of the 2016 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner of the 2015 ARNOVA Award for Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2016 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political PsychologyWinner of the 2017 Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award, Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association
Finalist for the 2015 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
Winner of the 2008 Saltire Society/National Library of Scotland Research Book of the Year Award
Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale UniversityHonorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016