PUP books take home 14 prizes from the 2011 PROSE Awards!

Princeton University Press rocked the house at the 2011 PROSE Awards in Washington D.C., taking home a staggering 14 prizes!

“The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.”

The press took home two Awards of Excellence, five Category Award Winners, and seven Honorable Mentions! Congratulations to our fantastic authors. A full list of who won what is available after the jump!

Awards of Excellence:
Patricia S. Churchland, Braintrust: what Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences

Richard Crossley, The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works

Category Award Winners
Patricia S. Churchland, Braintrust: what Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Biomedicine & Neuroscience

Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Literature

Peter Goodfellow, Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Popular Science & Popular Mathematics

Richard Crossley, The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Single Volume Reference/Science

Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron & Meera Balarajan, Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award, Sociology & Social Work

Honorable Mention Winners
David A. Weintraub, How Old Is the Universe?
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Cosmology & Astronomy

Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Economics

Robert H. Frank, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Economics

Daniel W. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Government & Politics

Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Philosophy

Robert Wuthnow, Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Sociology & Social Work

Leora Batnitzky, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
2011 PROSE Award, Honorable Mention, Theology & Religious Studies