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.
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Longlisted for the Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust Category
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- History
A Democracy Paradox Absolute Must Read Book About Democracy
Winner of the James Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law & Society Association
Winner of the Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize
Co-Winner – Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship
A Prospect Best History Book of the Year
A FiveBooks Best Economic History Book of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
An Australian Most Anticipated Book
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Albert C. Outler Prize, American Society of Church History
Finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, Association for Jewish Studies
Runner up for the British and Irish Association of Jewish Studies Book Prize
Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention for the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award
Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
A History Today Book of the Year
Winner of the Kenshur Prize, Bloomington Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Winner of the Cover & Design Award, The Nebraska Center for the Book
Winner of the PROSE Award in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Winner of the Book-of-the-Year Award, Journal of the American Revolution
Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Financial Times Best Books of 2021: Politics
A The Hindu Top 10 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year
Winner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association
Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association
Winner of the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
Shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize, The Hellenic Centre
Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Contemporary Subject
Winner of the AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges & Universities
Winner of the HES Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
Finalist for the PROSE Award in European History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Henry Adams Book Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government
Winner of the PROSE Award in North American History, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Finalist for the Shapiro Book Prize, The Shapiro Center for American History and Culture at The Huntington
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America
Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)
Honorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association
Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Winner of the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the 2018 J.I. Segal English Non-fiction Award on a Jewish Theme, Jewish Public Library
Winner of the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Modern Jewish History and Culture: Europe and Israel, Association for Jewish Studies
Smithsonian: Best History Books of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities
Winner of the 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Social Sciences Award, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in Non-U.S. History, Society for Military History
Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Book Award, Institute for the Study of Genocide
Longlisted for the 2019 ICAS Book Prize in Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2018: History
One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018
Runner-Up Commendation for the DeLong Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
Shortlisted for the MAAH Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History
One of Whoopi Goldberg's Favorite Things, ABC The View
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Chicago Tribune writer John Warner's Book That Will Help You Better Understand the Messed-Up Nature of the World
One of The Undefeated's 25 Can't Miss Books of 2019
One of The Progressive's Favorite Books of 2019
One of LitHub's 50 Favorite Books of the Year
One of Inside Higher Ed's Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays
Winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association
Co-Winner of the EHS First Monograph Prize, Economic History Society
Co-Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize
Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Finalist with Special Recognition for the Brendan Gill Prize, Municipal Art Society of New York
One of Kirkus’ Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books for Fall 2019
Named a Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of Fall 2019
Finalist for the On the Brinck Book Awards, The University of New Mexico
Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 Ab Imperio Award, KRES Poliskola
Finalist for the 2018 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, Pen American Center
2017 Finalist in History, ForeWord Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Longlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize, McGill University
Honorable Mention for the 2018 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in History (Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award)
Finalist for the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Jewish Book Council
Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards
One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019
Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Finalist for the TSA/CUP Prize, Transatlantic Studies Association and Cambridge University Press
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies (Barbara Dobkin Award)
Finalist for the Dionisius A. Agius Book Prize, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean
Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum Sarna Memorial Award)
Honorable Mention for the 2018 AAR Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Historical Studies, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
Winner of the 2018 PCCBS Book Prize, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Co-Winner of the 2018 ASFS Book Award, Association for the Study of Food and Society
Winner of the 2018 Jerry Bentley Prize in World History, American Historical Association
Winner of the James B. Palais Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the Distinguished Book Award in U.S. History, Society for Military History
Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: History
Edward J. Balleisen, Winner of the 2018 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference
Honorable Mention for the 2017 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
Honorable Mention for the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Shortlisted for the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, New India Foundation
Winner of the 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association
One of Isthmus' Most Important Books of 2018 (Dave Cieslewicz)
Shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017 in Economics
One of The New York Times Deal Book “Business Books Worth Reading” 2017 (chosen by Andrew Sorkin)
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017
Selected for The HCSS Bookshelf (chosen by Stephan De Spiegeleire) 2017
One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2017
One of the Microsoft Best Business Books of 2017
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Dambisa Moyo)
One of the Economist.com “2017 Books of the Year” in Economics and Business
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics, chosen by Martin Wolf
One of The Wall Street Journal’s What Business Leaders Read in 2017, chosen by Mohamed A. El-Erian
One of the CNBC 13 Best Business Books of 2017
One of World’s 2017 Books of the Year in “Understanding the World”
Medium.com’s Books of the Year 2017, chosen by Mark Koyama
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Finalist for the 2017 Prix du Livre Européen, Esprit d’Europe
Winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship, Nahum Sarna Memorial Award
One of the Financial Times' Best Books of the Year: Critics' Picks
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Runner-Up for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in History
Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion
Shortlisted for the MSA Book Prize, Modern Studies Association
Winner of the 1997 Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association
Shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation
One of History Today's Best Books of 2018
New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Winner of the Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award, Latin American Studies Association
Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Winner of the William M. LeoGrande Prize, American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society
A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in History 2015, chosen Tony Barber
Winner of the 2016 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History & Culture in Antiquity, Association for Jewish Studies
Winner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship (Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award), Jewish Book Council
Shortlisted for the 2018 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin
Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)
Winner of the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honor Book, 2015 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association
Winner of the 2015 William G. Bowen Award, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University
Honorable Mention for the 2015 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Legal History/Biography, Langum Charitable Trust
Winner of the 2015 Caughey Western History Prize, Western History Association
Winner of the 2015 Hal K. Rothman Prize, Western History Association
Winner of the 2015 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association
Winner of a 2015 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Honorable Mention for the 2016 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2017 Crader Family Book Prize in American Values, Crader Family Endowment at Southeast Missouri State University
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS)
Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University
Peter Cole, Winner of a 2010 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Peter Cole is the recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Fellowship
Winner of the Martin A. Klein Prize 2015, American Historical Association
Winner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association
One of HistoryBuff.com’s 10 Can’t-Miss History Books of 2015
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991
One of The New York Post’s Best Books of 2014
One of The Irish Times “Our Favourite Books of 2016”
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
Honorable Mention for the 2017 PROSE Award in Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2014 Best First Book, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Finalist for the 2015 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Winner of the 2017 Paul Hair Prize, African Studies Association
Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers
Jürgen Osterhammel, Winner of the 2012 Gerda Henkel Prize, of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Project Syndicate’s Best Reads in 2017 (chosen by Mark Leonard)
One of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Best Books of 2014, chosen by Satiyajit Das
One of Marginal Revolution.com's (Tyler Cowen) Best Non-Fiction Books of 2014
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in European & World History, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Honorable Mention for the 2010 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture Section category, American Sociological Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Prize in Western American History
Winner of the 1996 Premio del Rey Prize, American Historical Association
Winner of the 1998 Best First Book in Iberian History Award, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies
Winner of the 2000 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Special Mention for the 2014 F. X. Šalda Prize, Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences
One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best History Books of 2013
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Winner of the 2010 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Award, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Co-Winner of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies, awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010
One of Jewish Ideas Daily.com's 40 Best Jewish Books of 2012
Winner of the 1997 Philip Taft Prize in Labor History
Winner of the 1996 President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
Winner of the 1997 Best Book in North American Urban History Award, Urban History Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
Winner of the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
Co-Winner of the 2004 History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies
Co-Winner of the 2004 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Winner of the 2004 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the 2004 Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Association for Jewish Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2012 James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2012 Philip Taft Labor History Award, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
Winner of the 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
One of Choice's Top 25 Titles for 2012
Winner of the 2005 Koret Jewish Book Award in History, Koret Foundation
Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies category, Jewish Book Council
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002
One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best Books on the Middle East for 2012
Winner of the 2007 Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association
Winner of the 2007 Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the Best Book in Georgia History, Georgia Historical Society
Honorable Mention for the 2012 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2012 Harry J. Kalven Prize, Law & Society Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012
Winner of the 2010 Best First Book Award, Phi Alpha Theta
Winner of the 2010 Bronze Medal Book of the Year Award in HistoryForeWord Reviews
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice for 2010
One of U.S. News & World Report's (online version) Top Debate Worthy Books of the Year for 2010
A Boston Authors Club Annual Awards Highly Recommended Book for 2011
Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010
Winner of the Toynbee Prize
Winner of the 2005 Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative Historical Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Mirra Komarovsky Award, Eastern Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2004 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the 2012 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Top 25 Academic Books for 2012
Co-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
Winner of the 2008 Book Award in History, Association for Asian American Studies
Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League
Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council
Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association
Winner of the 2007 New York City Book Award
Winner of the 2004 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 2006 Fraenkel Prize in Category A, Wiener Library
Winner of the 2006 Saidi-Sirjani Award, International Society of Iranian Studies
Winner of the 2007 McLemore Prize for the Best Mississippi History Book
Finalist for the 2005 Philip Schaff Prize, The American Society of Church History
Runner-Up for the 2005 National Jewish Book Award in History, Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Jewish History
Finalist for the 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award
Winner of the 2006 Theodore Saloutos Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Co-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
Finalist for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council
Winner of the 2006 New England Historical Association Book Prize, New England Historical Association
Winner of the 2008 Rachel Carson Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science
Co-Winner of the 2006 Robert K. Merton Prize, Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention for the 2007 John G. Cawelti Award, American Culture Association
Winner of the 2005 Best Book in Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Association
Winner of the 2004 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2004 Best Book in North American Urban History, Urban History Association
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1996
Winner of the 1993 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in History, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1995
Winner of the 1994 Excellence in Book Publishing Award, American Academy of Religion
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998
Winner of the 1997 Presidential Book Award, American Association of Italian Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994
Finalist for the 1993 Pacific Coast Branch Book Award, American Historical Association
Winner of the 1992 Hiromi Arisawa Award, Association of American University Presses
Winner of the Award for Excellence in Analytical-Descriptive Studies of Religion, American Academy of Religion