They Called It Peace is shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize September 05, 2024 They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence by Lauren Benton has been shortlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize. Read More
The Divine Economy is longlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award August 19, 2024 The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People by Paul Seabright has been longlisted for the 2024 FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. Read More
The Last of Its Kind is shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize August 12, 2024 The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction by Gísli Pálsson has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2024. Read More
Author Avi Wigderson receives the 2023 Turing Award April 11, 2024 Congratulations to author Avi Wigderson, who has been honored with the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, given by the Association for Computing Machinery. Read More
The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate wins the R.R. Hawkins Award March 27, 2024 Nicholas Mathevon’s The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate has been awarded the 2024 R.R. Hawkins Award, the top prize among the Association of American Publisher’s PROSE Awards. Read More
Celebrating 2024 PROSE winners and finalists March 05, 2024 Princeton University Press is delighted to have fifteen books recognized as 2024 PROSE Awards category winners or finalists. Read More
Board of trustees member YS Chi is honored with London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award February 21, 2024 Princeton University Press extends our congratulations to YoungSuk "YS" Chi, recipient of the 2024 London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award. Read More
Two Princeton University Press books named National Book Critics Circle Award finalists January 25, 2024 The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, by Nicholas Dames, and Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery are two of five finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award, in the criticism category. Read More
College Art Association book awards finalists December 01, 2023 Three books distributed or co-published by Princeton University Press are included on shortlists for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award and the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, both given by the College Art Association. Read More
Claudia Goldin awarded Nobel Prize in Economics October 09, 2023 Congratulations to author Claudia Goldin, who has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics for her research advancing our understanding of women’s workforce participation. Read More
Two Princeton University Press books shortlisted for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize September 05, 2023 The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe, by James Belich, and The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire, by Henrietta Harrison, are shortlisted for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize. Read More
Two PUP titles honored with 2023 American Political Science Association book awards July 21, 2023 Jacob Grumbach’s Laboratories against Democracy and R. Douglas Arnold’s Fixing Social Security have been honored with American Political Science Association 2023 book awards. Read More
Theodore Porter honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal July 07, 2023 Congratulations to Theodore (Ted) Porter who has been honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal, the highest honor given by the History of Science Society (HSS). Read More
Princeton University Press Director Christie Henry awarded the Special Book Award of China June 14, 2023 Princeton University Press Director Christie Henry has been awarded the 16th Special Book Award of China. Read More
What a Mushroom Lives For nominated for a 2023 James Beard Award May 02, 2023 What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make by Michael Hathaway has been nominated for a 2023 James Beard Media Award. Read More