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. 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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Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies

Winner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers

Winner of the Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society

Honorable Mention for the Clifford Geertz Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Honorable Mention for the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Book Prize in Critical Anthropology

Finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council
Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and Folklore, Association for Jewish Studies

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Writing Based on Archival Material
Winner of the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Winner of the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
Winner of the Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America

Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology
Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History



Winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize, American Catholic Historical Association

Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association

Winner of the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, Association for Asian Studies


Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize
Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion




Winner of the 2002 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers


Winner of the Vinson Sutlive Book Prize, Anthropology Department of William & Mary

Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016


Winner of the 2017 Hubert Morken Award for Best Book, Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Co-Winner of the 2016 Book Award, Religion and International Relations Section, International Studies Association


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007

Winner of the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of The Middle East Channel’s Top Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch

Winner of the 2017 Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2017 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute

Shortlisted for the 2014 Sophie Brody Medal, Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) of the American Library Association

First Place for the Book Award in History, 2013 Catholic Press Association
Winner of the 2012 Best Book Award, College Theology Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012


Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010

Finalist for the 2007 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2014

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005

Honorable Mention for the 2005 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of The Middle East Channel’s Top Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005

Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles Top 25 Academic Books for 2013

Winner of the 2013 Cover/Jacket Merit Award in the Professional, Scholarly Series category, New York Book Show

Honorable Mention for the 2005 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association





One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004

One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004

Co-Winner of the 1998 Towson University Prize for Literature

Finalist for the 2004 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award, University of Scranton
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books for 2004


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2000


One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
