2026
Winners
R.R. Hawkins Award
Cambridge University Press
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
David Eltis

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences
    Simon and Schuster
    Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery
    Mallary Tenore Tarpley

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
    Cambridge University Press
    Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
    David Eltis

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics
    Cambridge University Press
    Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism: From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality
    Wojciech Hubert Zurek

  • PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
    Stanford University Press
    The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution
    Keith Richotte, Jr.

Category Award Winners

  • Architecture and Urban Planning
    University of Texas Press
    Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy
    Shiben Banerji

  • Art Exhibitions
    The Museum of Modern Art
    Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
    Beverly Adams and Christophe Cherix

  • Art History and Criticism
    University of Texas Press
    Inside Abstraction: Interpreting Inka Visual Culture
    Carolyn Dean

  • Best New Journal in Humanities and Social Sciences
    Cambridge University Press
    Public Humanities edited
    Jeffrey R. Wilson and Zoe Hope Bulaitis

  • Biography and Autobiography
    University of Michigan Press
    When Charlie Met Joan: The Tragedy of the Chaplin Trials and the Failings of American Law
    Diane Kiesel

  • Biological Anthropology, Archeology and Ancient History
    University of California Press
    Nature’s Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity
    Robert N. Spengler III

  • Biology (includes Animal Science and Botany)
    Elsevier Inc.
    Insect Ecomorphology: Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution
    Oliver Betz

  • Biomedicine and Neuroscience (includes biochemistry and biophysics)
    Elsevier Inc.
    Brave Genomes: Microbial Genome Plasticity in the Face of Environmental Challenge
    Silvia Bulgheresi

  • Business, Finance, and Management
    The MIT Press
    Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work
    Melissa Valentine and Michael S. Bernstein

  • Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology
    Cambridge University Press
    Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism: From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality
    Wojciech Hubert Zurek

  • Classics
    Cambridge University Press
    The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry
    Michael B. Cosmopoulos

  • Clinical Medicine
    Simon and Schuster
    Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery
    Mallary Tenore Tarpley

  • Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
    Cambridge University Press
    Waves of Hope: Personal Stories of ECT
    George Kirov

  • Computing and Information Sciences
    The MIT Press
    Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms
    Amelia Acker

  • Cultural Anthropology and Sociology
    Johns Hopkins University Press
    Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance
    William D. Lopez

  • Earth Science
    Cambridge University Press
    Earth History: Stories of Our Geological Past
    Peter Copeland and Janok P. Bhattacharya

  • Economics
    Princeton University Press
    How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
    Carl Benedikt Frey

  • Education Theory and Practice
    Harvard Education Press
    Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives: How Students’ Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can Do About It
    Timothy Shanahan

  • Engineering and Technology
    The MIT Press
    What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds
    Blaise Agüera y Arcas

  • Environmental Science
    Cambridge University Press
    Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Modelling: A Physics-based Approach
    Arnaud Mignan

  • European History
    Georgetown University Press
    Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries
    Daniela Richterova

  • Government and Politics
    Princeton University Press
    Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
    Laura K. Field

  • History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
    Princeton University Press
    The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science
    Peter Dear

  • Language and Linguistics
    Cambridge University Press
    The Language Work of Speechwriters
    Gwynne Mapes

  • Legal Studies and Criminology
    Stanford University Press
    The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution
    Keith Richotte, Jr.

  • Literature
    Oxford University Press
    The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore
    Margaret Hiebert Beissinger

  • Mathematics and Statistics
    Princeton University Press
    The Rising Sea: Foundations of Algebraic Geometry
    Ravi Vakil

  • Media and Cultural Studies
    Little, Brown and Company
    Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
    Jeremy Atherton Lin

  • Music and the Performing Arts
    NYU Press
    Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances across the Indigenous Americas
    Lilian Mengesha

  • North American/U.S. History
    Cambridge University Press
    Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations
    David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva

  • Nursing & Allied Health Services
    Springer Publishing
    Environmental Health: Foundations for Public Health
    Natalie Sampson, PhD, MPH, Lindsay Tallon, PhD, MSPH, CPH, and Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, BCES

  • Outstanding Work by a Trade Publisher
    W. W. Norton & Company
    Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
    Agnes Callard

  • Philosophy
    W. W. Norton & Company
    Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
    Agnes Callard

  • Popular Science and Popular Mathematics
    Princeton University Press
    Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
    Karen G. Lloyd

  • Psychology and Applied Social Work
    New York University Press
    Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake
    Judith Weisenfeld

  • Theology and Religious Studies
    Oxford University Press
    Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
    Christian Smith

  • World History
    Cambridge University Press
    Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
    David Eltis