2024
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Princeton University Press
The Voice of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
Nicolas Mathevon

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    The Voice of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
    Nicolas Mathevon

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Cambridge University Press
    Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
    By Henrike Christiane Lange

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    The MIT Press
    Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain
    Sonja K. Pieck

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Duke University Press
    Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
    Gabrielle Hecht

 
Category Award Winners
 
  • Architecture-Urban Planning
    University of Texas Press
    In the Land of the Patriarchs: Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements
    Noam Shoked

  • Art Exhibitions
    ACMRS Press
    Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
    Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey

  • Art History and Criticism
    Cambridge University Press
    Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
    Henrike Christiane Lange

  • Biography and Autobiography
    NYU Press
    Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain
    L. Ayu Saraswati

  • Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History
    THE MIT Press
    Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
    Richard Conniff

  • Biological Sciences
    Princeton University Press
    The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
    Nicolas Mathevon

  • Biomedicine and Neuroscience
    Oxford University Press
    Why We Forget and How to Remember Better: The Science behind Memory
    Andrew E. Budson and Elizabeth A. Kensinger

  • Business, Finance, and Management
    Harvard University Press, Imprint: Belknap Press
    Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions
    Zongyuan Zoe Liu

  • Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology
    Cambridge University Press
    Quantum Phases of Matter
    Subir Sachdev

  • Classics
    University of Michigan Press
    Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire
    David J. Mattingly

  • Clinical Medicine
    Elsevier Inc
    Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health
    Bonnie Halpern-Felsher

  • Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    Elsevier Inc
    Promoting Desired Lifestyles Among Adults With Severe Autism and Intellectual Disabilities
    Dennis H. Reid and Mary Rosswurm

  • Computing and Information Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities
    Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, and Jeannette M. Wing

  • Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
    Princeton University Press
    Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
    Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen

  • Earth Science
    Princeton University Press
    The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica
    David J. Drewry

  • Economics
    Manchester University Press
    Carbon Colonialism
    Laurie Parsons

  • Education Theory and Practice
    Oxford University Press
    The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth
    Derron Wallace

  • Engineering and Technology
    Princeton University Press
    Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI
    Josh Simons

  • Environmental Science
    THE MIT Press
    Mnemonic Ecologies: Memory and Nature Conservation along the Former Iron Curtain
    Sonja K. Pieck

  • European History
    Harvard University Press, Imprint: Belknap Press
    Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
    Anthony Grafton

  • Government and Politics
    Duke University Press
    Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
    Gabrielle Hecht

  • History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
    Princeton University Press
    Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
    James T. Costa

  • Journals
    Wiley
    Community Science
    Julia K. Parrish, Editor-in-Chief, Community Science Exchange and Journal, and Jean J. Schensul, Deputy Editor, Community Science Exchange Hub

  • Language and Linguistics
    Harvard University Press
    A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
    Caleb Everett

  • Legal Studies and Criminology
    University of Toronto Press
    The Legal Singularity: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better
    Abdi Aidid and Benjamin Alarie

  • Literature
    Princeton University Press
    The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
    Nicholas Dames

  • Mathematics and Statistics
    Cambridge University Press
    Exponential Families in Theory and Practice
    Bradley Efron

  • Media and Cultural Studies
    Princeton University Press
    24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
    Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  • Multivolume
    Elsevier Inc
    Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Health
    Bonnie Halpern-Felsher

  • Music and Performing Arts
    University of Michigan Press
    On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
    Philip Ewell

  • Nonfiction Graphic Novels
    Getty Publications
    Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun
    Kaz Rowe

  • North American and US History
    Yale University Press
    The Rediscovery of America
    Ned Blackhawk

  • Nursing and Allied Health Services
    Springer Publishing
    Leadership in Practice: Essentials for Public Health and Healthcare Leaders
    Susan Helm-Murtagh, DrPH, MM and Paul C. Erwin, MD DrPH

  • Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
    Random House
    The 272
    Rachel Swarns and edited by Hilary Redmon

  • Philosophy
    Harvard University Press
    In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
    Costica Bradatan

  • Popular Science and Mathematics
    Princeton University Press
    The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World
    Lixing Sun

  • Psychology and Applied Social Work
    American Psychological Association
    APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development
    Lisa J. Crockett, Gustavo Carlo and John E. Schulenberg

  • Single Volume
    Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
    Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Angela A. Gonzales, and Robert Henry

  • Textbooks
    Princeton University Press
    Dynamics of Planetary Systems
    Scott Tremaine

  • Theology and Religious Studies
    Cambridge University Press
    Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
    Jacob L. Wright

  • World History
    Harvard University Press
    Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos
    Travis Zadeh