Joshua D. Angrist and David Card are co‑winners of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel October 11, 2021 Princeton University Press authors Joshua D. Angrist and David Card are co-winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021. According to The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Dr. Angrist has been jointly awarded one half of the prize, with Guido W. Imbens, “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.” Dr. Card has been awarded one half of the prize “for his empirical contributions to labour economics.” Read More
Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains is named a 2021 National Book Award Finalist October 05, 2021 Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by anthropologist Lucas Bessire has been longlisted for a 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Read More
Syukuro Manabe is co‑winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics October 05, 2021 Princeton University Press author Syukuro Manabe is a co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Professor Manabe was awarded one-half of the Prize, jointly with Klaus Hasselmann, “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.” Read More
Two PUP books shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize September 23, 2021 Two Princeton University Press books are among eight titles shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize: Emma Rothschild’s An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries and Tyler Stovall’s White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. Read More
PUP author Peter Singer awarded the 2021 Berggruen Prize September 08, 2021 Moral philosopher and Princeton University Press author Peter Singer has won the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, awarded annually to a thinker “whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.” Read More
What We Owe Each Other longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award August 16, 2021 Minouche Shafik’s What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract by has been longlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award. Read More
Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize April 21, 2021 Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize. Read More
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt’s Chinese Architecture: A History receives 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award April 20, 2021 Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award given by The Society of Architectural Historians. Read More