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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![What a Mushroom Lives For](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691225890.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Nominee for the James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship
Winner of the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes, BC and Yukon Book Prizes
![American Shtetl](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691226439.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies Category
Honorable mention for the Saul Veiner Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
![Prototype Nation](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691204956.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
![Ancient Wine](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691197203.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers
![Chasing Innovation](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691175133.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
![Three Stones Make a Wall](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691183237.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research
![Disruptive Fixation](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691163987.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![For Love of the Prophet](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165158.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2017 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion
![The Management of Hate](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691171951.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable 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
![The Mushroom at the End of the World](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400873548.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Business and Economics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 in Science
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Times Higher Education’s Best Books of 2015
![Coming of Age in Second Life](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691168340.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
![How Ancient Europeans Saw the World](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691166759.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Making War at Fort Hood](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691165707.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America
![Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691161921.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Leisurely Islam](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691153667.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
![Perfect Order](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691156262.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![The New Arab Man](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691148892.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2014 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies
One of Choice's Editors' Picks, October 2012
Shortlisted for the 2013 Book Prize, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness of the British Sociological Association
![The Enculturated Gene](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691123172.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute
![Global "Body Shopping"](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9781400836338.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691139555.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association
Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
![Mitzvah Girls](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691139173.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies
Highly Commended 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion
![The Empire of Trauma](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691137537.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Will to Live](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691143859.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
Winner of the 2008 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association
![When Experiments Travel](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691126579.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Bipolar Expeditions](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691141060.jpg?w=410&auto=format)
![Yoga in Modern India](https://pup-assets.imgix.net/onix/images/9780691118741.jpg?w=410&auto=format)