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
PUP authors awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships April 08, 2022 Eight Princeton University Press authors have received 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships, awarded to individuals who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Read More
Wu Hung is awarded a College Art Association Lifetime Achievement Award February 16, 2022 Congratulations to Wu Hung, who has been awarded the 2022 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art by the College Art Association of America (CAA). Read More
Congratulations to PROSE Award winners and finalists January 26, 2022 Fourteen Princeton University Press books are winners or finalists for 2022 PROSE Awards. Read More
Jews and Their Roman Rivals wins National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship January 20, 2022 Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Challenge to Israel by Katell Berthelot has won the National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship. Read More
Joshua D. Angrist and David Card are co-winners of the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel October 11, 2021 Princeton University Press authors Joshua D. Angrist and David Card are co-winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021. According to The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, Dr. Angrist has been jointly awarded one half of the prize, with Guido W. Imbens, “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.” Dr. Card has been awarded one half of the prize “for his empirical contributions to labour economics.” Read More
Syukuro Manabe is co‑winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics October 05, 2021 Princeton University Press author Syukuro Manabe is a co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Professor Manabe was awarded one-half of the Prize, jointly with Klaus Hasselmann, “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.” Read More
Lucas Bessire’s Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains is named a 2021 National Book Award Finalist October 05, 2021 Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by anthropologist Lucas Bessire has been longlisted for a 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Read More
Two PUP books shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize September 23, 2021 Two Princeton University Press books are among eight titles shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize: Emma Rothschild’s An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France Over Three Centuries and Tyler Stovall’s White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea. Read More
PUP author Peter Singer awarded the 2021 Berggruen Prize September 08, 2021 Moral philosopher and Princeton University Press author Peter Singer has won the 2021 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, awarded annually to a thinker “whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement in a rapidly changing world.” Read More
What We Owe Each Other longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award August 16, 2021 Minouche Shafik’s What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract by has been longlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award. Read More
Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize April 21, 2021 Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe is one of six titles shortlisted for the 2021 Wolfson History Prize. Read More
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt’s Chinese Architecture: A History receives 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award April 20, 2021 Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award given by The Society of Architectural Historians. Read More