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 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 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
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