Awards & Recognition
¿ìɫֱ²¥ books have won numerous awards, including seven 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, the Holberg Prize, and the Cundill Prize. Every year, ¿ìɫֱ²¥ books are named among the year’s best reads by publications around the world.
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Nobel Prize–Winning Authors
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Honorable Mention for the Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian StudiesHonorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Honorable Mention for the William A. Douglass Prize, American Anthropological Association
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies CategoryA New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Honorable mention for the Saul Veiner Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society
Winner of the Labor Tech Book Award, Labor Tech Research NetworkWinner of the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists Book Award
Honorable Mention for the Arthur J. Rubel Book Prize, Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Winner of the Americo Paredes Book Award, South Texas College
Winner of the Society for Anthropology of Work Book Award
Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Winner of the Organisation Internationale de la Vigne et du Vin Grand Prize, History, Literature and Fine Arts CategoryWinner of the Research Prize, Asociación Internacional de Historia y Civilización de la Vid y el Vino
Honorable Mention for the Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Sciences Professional/Scholarly Award, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationWinner of the Diana Forsythe Prize, Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing of the General Anthropology Division, and the Society for the Anthropology of Work
One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017One of CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2017
Winner of the 2018 Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award, American Schools of Oriental Research
Winner of the 2016 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic AnthropologyWinner of the 2016 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology
Finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Awards in General Nonfiction, Northern California Book Reviewers
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2015 in Business and Economics
One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2015 in Science
One of Flavorwire’s 10 Best ¿ìɫֱ²¥ by Academic Publishers in 2015
One of Times Higher Education’s Best ¿ìɫֱ²¥ of 2015
Third Place for the 2013 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological AssociationHonorable Mention for the 2015 Delmos Jones and Jagna Scharff Memorial Book Award, Society for the Anthropology of North America
One of ForeignAffairs.com's Best International Relations ¿ìɫֱ²¥ in the Best ¿ìɫֱ²¥ on the Middle East category for 2012
Winner of the 2014 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern StudiesOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
Winner of the 2007 Julian Steward Book Award, Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
Winner of the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe/American Anthropological AssociationWinner of the 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Winner of the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association
Winner of the 2010 Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Winner of the 2009 New York City Book Award, New York Society LibraryWinner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies
Highly Commended 2010 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, Society for the Anthropology of Religion