Viral Justice wins 2023 Stowe Prize February 28, 2023 Ruha Benjamin’s Viral Justice: How to Grow the World We Want has won the 2023 Stowe Prize. Read More
Spiderweb Capitalism wins the R.R. Hawkins Award February 23, 2023 Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets by Kimberly Kay Hoang has been awarded the prestigious R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize among the Association of American Publishers’s (AAP) PROSE Awards. An additional sixteen PUP books were also honored this year as PROSE Awards Category Winners and Finalists. Read More
Translating Myself and Others is a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay February 15, 2023 Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri has been named a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Read More
Svetlana Alpers is awarded the 2023 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association February 07, 2023 Congratulations to Svetlana Alpers, who has been awarded the 2023 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, awarded by the College Art Association of America (CAA). Read More
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India wins the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, A Site of Struggle is a finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award February 06, 2023 Congratulations to Sylvia Houghtling whose book The Art of Cloth in Mughal India has won the 2023 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and to Janet Dees, editor of A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, a finalist for the 2023 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for Smaller Museums, Libraries, Collections, and Exhibitions, both overseen by the College Art Association of America (CAA). Read More
Up from the Depths nominated for a 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award February 01, 2023 Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs has been named a Finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, one of five books included in the Biography category and one of four university press titles among this year's nominees. Read More
Four PUP books recognized by the National Jewish Book Awards January 18, 2023 Four Princeton University Press books have been recognized by the 2022 National Jewish Book Awards. Read More
Jennifer Morton is awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Education December 08, 2022 Jennifer Morton has been awarded the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, given to acknowledge a recent idea or study that has “potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment.” Read More
Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour longlisted for the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize October 26, 2022 Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour is longlisted for the 2023 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Hands-On Science Book category. Written by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, J. Richard Gott, and Robert J. Vanderbei, this New York Times bestseller is a thrilling journey through the universe, in stereoscopic 3D. Read More
Two Princeton University Press authors named 2022 MacArthur Fellows October 12, 2022 Authors Jennifer Carlson and Monica Kim are named 2022 MacArthur Fellows. Read More
In Praise of Good Bookstores wins the Heartland Booksellers Association Award for nonfiction October 12, 2022 Jeff Deutsch’s In Praise of Good Bookstores has won the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award in the Nonfiction category. Read More
The 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences October 11, 2022 Princeton University Press is honored to have published two of the three 2022 recipients of The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Ben S. Bernanke and Douglas W. Diamond. Read More
The Perils of Interpreting shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize September 22, 2022 Henrietta Harrison’s The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire is one of eight titles shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize. Read More
Getting Something to Eat in Jackson nominated by the James Beard Foundation for a 2022 Book Award May 11, 2022 We are pleased to share that Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr.’s Getting Something to Eat in Jackson: Race, Class, and Food in the American South has been nominated by the James Beard Foundation for a 2022 Book Award in the Writing category. Read More
Two PUP titles honored with 2022 Society of Architectural Historian awards April 28, 2022 We are honored that two Princeton University Press books have been awarded prizes by the Society of Architectural Historians. Ünver Rüstem’s Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul is winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award and Despina Stratigakos’s Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway is winner of the Spiro Kostof Book Award. Read More