Awards and prizes

Each year, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is proud to receive a range of awards in the worlds of academia, education and educational publishing. Below is a list of the awards and prizes that we recorded since the listing in the last Annual Report.

Marthe Achtnich, Mobility Economies in Europe’s Borderlands: Migrants’ Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean, winner 2024 Susan Strange Best Book Prize, British International Studies Association

Rabiat Akande, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria, honourable mention, 2023 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association, honourable mention 2024 ICONS Annual Book Prize, International Society for Public Law, honourable mention 2024 Book Prize, International Society of Public Law and finalist 2024 Best Book Prize, African Studies Association

Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Grievance Formation, Rights and Remedies: Involuntary Sterilisation and Castration in the Nordics, 1930s–2020s, winner The Nils Klim Prize, The Holberg Prize

Paulina L Alberto, Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina, co-winner 2024 Susan L. Socolow and Lyman L. Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History

Clare Anderson, Convicts: A Global History, winner 2024 Kay Daniels Award, Australian Historical Association

Anthi Andronikou, Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean, honourable mention 2024 2nd Wadjih F. al-Hamwi Prize Best First Book, Mediterranean Seminar

Peder Anker, The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World, finalist Open Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award (Environmental Humanities), American Council of Learned Societies

Ana Lucia Araujo, The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism, finalist Paul Lovejoy Prize, Brill

Seth Archer, Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778–1855, shortlisted William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine

Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L Carter, Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief, winner Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Best Book Award from the International Journal of Press/Politics

Osman Balkan, Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe, winner ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, International Studies Association

Philippa Nicole Barr, Uncertainty and Emotion in the 1900 Sydney Plague, winner 2024 Addi Road Multicultural History Award, History Council NSW

Vilius Bartninkas, Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy, winner Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, Heidelberg University

Carson Bay, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, winner 2024 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, Heidelberg University

Doris L Bergen, Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany, winner 2024 Book Prize, The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research and shortlisted 2024 Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association

Margaret L Boittin, The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials, winner Prize for Best Book on International Law and Social Science, American Society of International Law and shortlisted W Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, honourable mention Best Edition/Translation Book Prize 2025, The Mediterranean Seminar

Anna Brinkman, Balancing Strategy: Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years’ War, longlisted 2025 Anderson Medal, Society for Nautical Research

Diana Bullen Presciutti, Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art, runner up Italian Art Society Book Prize

Joshua Busby, States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security, finalist 2024 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville

Katherine Calloway, Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England, shortlisted 2025 Richard L. Greaves Prize, The International John Bunyan Society

Elisa Camiscioli, Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking, and Global Migrations, winner 2025 Gilbert Chinard Prize, The Society for French Historical Studies

Mariana P Candido, Wealth, Land, and Property in Angola: A History of Dispossession, Slavery, and Inequality, winner 2023 Best Book Prize, African Studies Association

Sara Caputo, Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, honourable mention 2023 John R. Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History and winner Whitfield Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Christopher Chambers-Ju, Mobilizing Teachers: Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America, honourable mention 2025 Economics and Politics Best Book Award, Latin American Studies Association

Alan K Chen and Justin Marceau, Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century, winner 2024 Tankard Book Award, Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication

Kuan-Jen Chen, Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security, winner 2025 Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Foundation, finalist 2025 Center for Presidential History Book Prize, SMU and winner John R. Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History

Leah R Clark, Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World, winner 2025 Book Prize, Italian Art Society

Owen Clayton, Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos: The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890–1940, winner 2024 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies

Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy, winner 2025 Best Book in Canadian Studies-Nonfiction/Education, Canadian Studies Network

David W Congdon, Who Is a True Christian?: Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture, shortlisted Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion

Linda J Cook, Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia: The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations, co-winner The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities

Janna Coomans, Community, Urban Health and Environment in the Late Medieval Low Countries, winner 2025 John Nicholas Brown Prize, The Medieval Academy of America

David Cowan, Politics of the Past: Inter-war Memories and the Making of British Popular Politics, 1939–2009, longlisted First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Sheila Curran Bernard, Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, finalist Jazz Award 2025 - Biography/Autobiography, Jazz Journalists Association

Mikkel Dack, Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen and Political Screening during the Allied Occupation, winner 2024 David Barclay Book Prize, German Studies Association

Paul D’Arcy, Ryan Tucker Jones, Matt K Matsuda, Anne Perez Hattori and Jane Samson, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean co-winner 2024 John R. Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History

Ida Danewid, Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal, winner L. H. M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize, British International Studies Association

Tracy C Davis, Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform, honourable mention 2024 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, American Society for Theatre Research

Deval Desai, Expert Ignorance: The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform, runner-up 2024 Peter Birks Prize, The Society of Legal Scholars

Hendrik Dey, The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400–1420, winner Premio Daria Borghese Book Award

Mahjabeen Dhala, Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima, shortlisted Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion-Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion

David Stefan Doddington, Old Age and American Slavery, honourable mention 2024 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies and finalist Paul Lovejoy Prize, Brill

Hannah Doherty Hudson, Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era, winner 2024 Marilyn Gaull Book Award, The University of Chicago Press

Samuel Dolbee, Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East, co-winner 2024 Ottoman and Turkish Studies Book Prize, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association

Melissa J Durkee, States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions: Attributing Identity and Responsibility to Artificial Entities, winner 2024 Edited Volume Award, American Branch of the International Law Association

Jacob Eisler, The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy, winner Election Law Section’s Scholarship Award, The Association of American Law Schools

Zaynab El Bernoussi, Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution: Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings, winner Global South Award, International Political Science Association

Peter K Enns, Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World, winner Book Award 2024, American Association for Public Opinion Research

Cindy Ermus, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, winner 2024 Lynn Hollen Lees Prize, Urban History Association

Maria Fernanda Escallón, Becoming Heritage: Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Black Cultural Heritage in Colombia, honourable mention 2024 Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards

Laura Flannigan, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, longlisted First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Andrew Forde, European Human Rights Grey Zones: The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict, finalist 2024 Law Book of the Year-Irish Law Awards, LegalBooks.ie

Hannah Forsyth, Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870-2008, shortlisted 2024 Premier’s History Awards – Australian History Prize, New South Wales

Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Jessica Heybach and Dini Metro-Roland, The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education, winner Society of Professors of Education Book Award

Jennifer C French, Palaeolithic Europe: A Demographic and Social Prehistory, finalist 2023 Book Award, Society for American Archaeology

Darragh Gannon, Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912-1922, honourable mention Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies

Leigh A Gardner, Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980, winner 2023 Peter Lindert Jeffrey Williamson Prize, Economics History Association

Catherine Gascoigne, Causation in the Law of the World Trade Organization: An Econometric Approach, honourable mention 2024 Book Prize, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law

Marie-Amélie George, Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition, honourable mention Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organisation of American Historians

Jamie A Gianoutsos, The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660, co-winner István Hont Book Prize 2020, Institute of Intellectual History

Spike Gibbs, Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, winner 2024 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize, British Agricultural History Society and shortlisted Whitfield Book Prize, Royal Historical Society

Ezequiel A Gonzalez-Ocantos, Prosecutors, Voters and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America, winner IPSA Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize

Lesley J Gordon, Dread Danger: Cowardice and Combat in the American Civil War, finalist 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Simcha Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, winner 2024 Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award, Jewish Book Council and winner Natan Book Award, Jewish Book Council

Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, shortlisted 2024 Cundill History Prize (McGill), The Peter Cundill Foundation

Verena Halsmayer, Managing Growth in Miniature: Solow’s Model as an Artifact, winner Best Monograph Award, The European Society for the History of Economic Thought

Jaakko Heiskanen, Ethnos of the Earth: International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity, shortlisted Hedley Bull Prize, European Consortium for Political Research

Fynn Holm, The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, C. 1600–2019, winner 2024 John R. Lyman Book Awards, North American Society for Oceanic History and winner 10th Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Japanese Studies, Hosei University

Alexandra Homolar, The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and US Hard Power after the Cold War, shortlisted Hedley Bull Prize, European Consortium for Political Research

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery, winner 2024 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, American Sociological Association and winner 2024 Sociology of Emotions Recent Contributions (Book) Award, American Sociological Association

Dragan Huterer, A Course in Cosmology: From Theory to Practice, winner 2025 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award, American Astronomical Society and winner Textbook Excellence Awards, Textbook & Academic Authors Association

Lorna Hutson, England’s Insular Imagining: The Elizabethan Erasure of Scotland, winner 2024 Saltire Scottish Book of Year, The Saltire Society Trust

Kyle Jackson, The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj: Empire and Religion in Northeast India, 1890–1920, winner 2025 Book Prize, Ecclesiastical History Society

Andrew S Jacobs, Gospel Thrillers: Conspiracy, Fiction, and the Vulnerable Bible, shortlisted American Academy of Religion, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, finalist 2024 Best Book Prize, African Studies Association and winner 2024 Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association

Martine Jean, Policing Freedom: Illegal Enslavement, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, honourable mention Bolton Johnson Prize, Conference on Latin American History

Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Complexity Science: The Study of Emergence, winner Textbook Excellence Awards, Textbook & Academic Authors Association

Laurie Johnson, Leicester’s Men and their Plays: An Early Elizabethan Playing Company and its Legacy, honourable mention, 2024 David Bevington Award, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

Peter N Jordan, Naturalism in the Christian Imagination: Providence and Causality in Early Modern England, winner 2024 Annual Book Prize, International Society for Science and Religion

Susan Kellogg, A Concise History of the Aztecs, winner Judy Ewell Award, Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Laura Kelly, Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History, C. 1922–92, winner 2024 British Association for Irish Studies Book Prize

Paul Kenny, Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present, winner 2024 Brian Farrell Book Prize, Political Studies Association of Ireland

Ahmad Khan, Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy: The Making of Sunnism, from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century, shortlisted 2024 Society Book Prize, British-Kuwait Friendship Foundation

Claire Jean Kim, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, winner 2025 Best Book Award in Social Science, Association of Asian American Studies

Julia Kindt, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human, longlisted 2025 Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League and shortlisted Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League and winner Nautilus Book Awards

Dina Kiwan, Academic Freedom and the Transnational Production of Knowledge, winner Society of Professors of Education Book Award

Masatoshi Koizumi, Constituent Order in Language and Thought: A Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics, winner 2024 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, Linguistic Society of America

Alex Kozulin, The Cultural Mind: The Sociocultural Theory of Learning, winner Society of Professors of Education Book Award

Yasser Kureshi, Seeking Supremacy: The Pursuit of Judicial Power in Pakistan, shortlisted 2024 Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize, Social Science and Research Advocacy

David Lambert, Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture, shortlisted 2025 Templer Prize, The Society for Army Historical Research

Egor Lazarev, State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya winner 2024 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, honourable mention 2024 Davis Center Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, winner 2024 Yale Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Ginevra Le Moli, Human Dignity in International Law, winner Paul Guggenheim Prize, Organisation of American Histories

Mark Letteney, The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations, shortlisted 2024 Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing and shortlisted American Academy of Religion, Best First Book in the History of Religions Award

Yiwen Li, Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE, honourable mention Joseph Levenson Prize Pre-1900, Association for Asian Studies

Adam Lichtenheld, Guilt by Location: Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars, winner 2025 Book of the Year Prize, Conflict Research Society

Anne E Linton, Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France, honourable mention 2024 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Science and longlisted 2024 Book Award, The American Library in Paris

Heather A Love, Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data, finalist Book Prize, British Society for Literature and Science

Alex Mayhew, Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front, honourable mention Western Front Association Tomlinson Prize

Susan McCall Perlman, Contesting France: Intelligence and US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War, winner 2024 Intelligence History Book Prize, International Intelligence History Association

Belén Fernández Milmanda, Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America, co-winner Donna Lee Van Cott Award, Latin American Studies Association and winner Economics and Politics Best Book Award, Latin American Studies Association

Claire Morelon, Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920, longlisted First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Naosuke Mukoyama, Fueling Sovereignty: Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States, shortlisted Hedley Bull Prize, European Consortium for Political Research and winner Institute of Developing Economies Award, Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Organization

José Lingna Nafafé, Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century, winner 2024 Best Book Award, African Studies Association of the UK

Martin Nedbal, Mozart’s Operas and National Politics: Canon Formation in Prague from 1791 to the present, runner-up 2024 Radomir Luža Prize, German Studies Association

Michael Ng, Political Censorship in British Hong Kong: Freedom of Expression and the Law (1842-1997), honourable mention 2024 Book Prize, International Society for Chinese Law & History

Tricia D Olsen, Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse, finalist 2024 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville

John Osborne, Rome in the Ninth Century: A History of Art, winner 2024 Premio Daria Borghese

Joshua Paine, The Functions of International Adjudication and International Environmental Litigation, co-winner 2024 Margaret Brazier Prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Legal Scholarship, The Society of Legal Scholars

Dr Alice Palmer, Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law, winner 2024 Book Prize, Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law and winner 2024 Award to an Early Career Researcher, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand

Sarah Palmer, Maritime Metropolis: London and its Port, 1780–1914, longlisted 2025 Anderson Medal, Society for Nautical Research

Tejas Parasher, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought, winner 2024 Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research

Justin Parks, Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America, winner 2024 Book Prize, American Studies Network

Matthew Pawlak, Sarcasm in Paul’s Letters, winner 2024 Frank W. Beare Award, Canadian Society of Biblical Studies

Deborah C Payne, The Business of English Restoration Theatre, 1660–1700, winner David Bevington Award, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

Tu Phuong Nguyen, Law and Precarity: Legal Consciousness and Daily Survival in Vietnam, honourable mention 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Asian Law and Society Association

Lucio Picci, Rethinking Corruption: Reasons Behind the Failure of Anti-Corruption Efforts, co-winner 2025 Best Book Award, The International Public Policy Association

Eva Piirimäe, Herder and Enlightenment Politics, runner-up 2023 Constance Blackwell Prize, International Society for Intellectual History and winner 2023 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History

Annamaria Pinter, Engaging Children in Applied Linguistics Research, winner 2024 Book Award, British Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award

Liza Piper, When Disease Came to This Country: Epidemics and Colonialism in Northern North America, winner 2024 Book Prize in Indigenous Histories, Canadian Historical Association Book Prize

Douglas Porch, Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945, winner 2025 Distinguished Book Awards, The Society for Military History

Robert C Post, The Taft Court 2 Volume Hardback Set: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930, finalist Order of the Coif Book Award 2025

H Jefferson Powell, The Practice of American Constitutional Law, honourable mention, 2024 Scribes Book Award, The American Society of Legal Writers

Diana Bullen Presciutti, Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art, winner 2024 Book Prize, American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize

Sara Protasi, The Philosophy of Envy, winner 2024 Joseph B. Gittler Prize, American Philosophical Association

Sergey Radchenko, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, shortlisted 2025 Lionel Gelber Prize, University of Toronto and shortlisted Pushkin House Book Prize

Vibhuti Ramachandran, Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India, winner 2024 Joseph W. Elder Prize, American Institute of Indian Studies

J Mark Ramseyer, Contracting in Japan: The Bargains People Make When Information is Costly, Commitment is Hard, Friendships are Unstable, and Suing is Not Worth it, finalist Order of the Coif Book Award 2025

Alexandra Roginski, Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, winner 2024 Donna Coates Book Prize, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Studies Network and highly commended 2024 AHA Ernest Scott Prize for History, The University of Melbourne

Chris Sandal-Wilson, Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Palestine, honourable mention 2024 John Pickstone Prize, The British Society for the History of Science

Matthew Sangster, An Introduction to Fantasy, winner 2024 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies, Mythopoeic Society

Luis L Schenoni, Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, shortlisted Hedley Bull Prize, European Consortium for Political Research

Peer Schouten, Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa, winner 2024 Book Prize, Conflict Research Society

Rachel A Schwartz, Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America, winner 2024 Donna Lee Van Cott Award, Latin American Studies Association

Anika Seemann, The Quislings: The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, longlisted First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Aziza Shanazarova, Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World, shortlisted Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion

April G Shelford, A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792, winner 2024 Kenshur Prize for best book in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University

Devani Singh, Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript, winner 2024 Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, The Medieval Academy of America

Monika Smialkowska, Shakespeare’s Tercentenary: Staging Nations and Performing Identities in 1916, shortlisted University English Book Prize, University English

Hania Sobhy, Schooling the Nation: Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt, honourable mention 2024 CAE Outstanding Book Award, American Anthropological Association and shortlisted Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award, Comparative and International Education Society

Stuart N Soroka and Christopher Wlezien, Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy, winner Book Award 2025, American Association for Public Opinion Research

Marika Sosnowski, Redefining Ceasefires: Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria, shortlisted 2024 CRS Book Prize, Conflict Research Society

Michalis Sotiropoulos, Liberalism after the Revolution: The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, c. 1830-1880, winner 2024 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association

Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale and Miriam B Mandel, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6: 1934–1936, winner 2024 Lyman H. Butterfield Award, Association for Documentary Editing

Yorim Spoelder, Visions of Greater India: Transimperial Knowledge and Anti-Colonial Nationalism, c.800-1960, winner 2024 Humanities Book Prize, European Association for Southeast Asian Studies

Jason A Staples, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews, Former Gentiles, Israelites, shortlisted Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion-Textual Studies, American Academy of Religion

Vedran Sulovsky, Making the Holy Roman Empire Holy: Frederick Barbarossa, Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium, longlisted First Book Prize, The Royal Historical Society

Mistale Taylor, Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law: Fundamental Rights, Privacy and Extraterritoriality, winner 2023 Books of the Year, The European Data Protection Law review

Nikki M Taylor, Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance, winner 2024 Slaveryarchive Book Prize, Slaveryarchive

Ches Thurber, Between Mao and Gandhi: The Social Roots of Civil Resistance, finalist 2024 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, University of Louisville

Bryce C Tingle, Hard Lessons in Corporate Governance, finalist 2025 The Donner Prize, Donner Canadian Foundation

Jonas Tinius, State of the Arts: An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration, shortlisted 2024 book prize, Waterloo Centre for German Studies

Inés Valdez, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism, honourable mention 2024 Sussex International Theory Prize for Best Book, University of Sussex and winner T.V. Paul Best Book in Global International Relations Award

Thomas Vidick and Stephanie Wehner, Introduction to Quantum Cryptography, winner Textbook Excellence Awards, Textbook & Academic Authors Association

Wim Voermans, The Story of Constitutions: Discovering the We in Us, winner 2024 The Constitutional Studies - 2023 Book of the Year Award, The University of Texas at Austin

Anthea Vogl, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, winner 2024 Book/Monograph Prize, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand

Magdalena Waligórska, Cross Purposes: Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland, winner 2025 Bronislaw Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America

Feng Wang, China’s Age of Abundance: Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath, winner Sociology of Population Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, American Sociological Association

Yael Warshel, Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization, finalist Next Generation Indie Book Award, Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group

Arianna Whelan, Reciprocity in Public International Law, winner 2024 Monograph Prize, European Society of International Law

Norman Wirzba, This Sacred Life: Humanity’s Place in a Wounded World, longlisted 2021 Michael Ramsey Prize

Ezgi Yildiz, Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture honourable mention 2025 Chadwick Alger Prize, International Studies Association

Yuliya Zabyelina, Between Immunity and Impunity: External Accountability of Political Elites for Transnational Crime, winner 2024 Best Book Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, winner 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, winner 2024 International Section Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and winner 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Division of International Criminology American Society of Criminology

Weiying Zhang, Re-Understanding Entrepreneurship: What It Is and Why It Matters, finalist 2025 Hayek Book Prize, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

APSA (American Political Science Association)

Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L Carter: Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief, honourable mention Luebbert Book Prize, Comparative Politics Section and honourable mention Best Book Award 2023, Democracy and Autocracy section

Osman Balkan, Dying Abroad: The Political Afterlives of Migration in Europe, winner Charles Taylor Award

Pamela Ban, Ju Yeon Park, Hye Young You, Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress, winner 2025 Legislative Studies Section 3 Alan Rosenthal Prize

Tiffany D Barnes, Yann P Kerevel and Gregory W Saxton, Working Class Inclusion: Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America, winner Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize, Legislative Studies Section and co-winner Best Book Award Class and Inequality

Richard Franklin Bensel, The Founding of Modern States, shortlisted 2025 Luebbert Book Prize, Comparative Politics Section 2023

Margaret L Boittin, The Regulation of Prostitution in China, Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials, honourable mention Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section 37 Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Volha Charnysh, Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe, winner Merze Tate, Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award

Sandipto Dasgupta, Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony, winner 2025 South Asian Politics Section 55 Francine Frankel Award

James N Druckman and Elizabth A Sharrow, Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports, winner 2024 Gladys M. Kammerer Award

Miles M Evers and Eric Grynaviski, The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire, winner Foreign Policy Section Best Book Award

Tyle Jost, Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation, winner Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award and winner Public Administration Section 6 Herbert A Simon Book Award

Tomila V Lankina, The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class, winner J. David Greenstone Book Prize

Jennifer M Larson, Designing Empirical Social Networks Research: The Patriarchal Political Order, honourable mention 2025 Political Networks Section Best Book

Egor Lazarev, State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya, honourable mention 2024 Luebbert Book Prize, Comparative Politics Section

Cathie Jo Martin, Education for all?: Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark, co-winner 2024 Best Book on European Politics

Monika Nalepa, After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability, honourable mention Best Book Conflict Processes Section Award

Noah L Nathan, The Scarce State: Inequality and Political Power in the Hinterland, winner William H. Riker Book Award and winner 2024 African Politics Conference Group-Best Book Award

William G Nomikos, Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up, winner 2025 Experimental Research Section 42 Best Book Award

Tricia D Olsen, Seeking Justice: Access to Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse, winner Human Rights Best Book Award

Tejas Parasher, Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought, co-winner 2024 Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award

Tommaso Pavone, The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe, winner C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in Law and Courts 2023

Soledad Artiz Prillaman, The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India, winner 2024 Victoria Schuck Award, winner 2025 Luebbert Book Prize, Comparative Politics Section and winner 2025 Political Networks Section Best Book

Jaime E Settle, Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America, winner Political Communication Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

Niloufer A Siddiqui, Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan, winner Robert A. Dahl Award and winner Leon Epstein Award

Megan A Stewart, Governing for Revolution: Social Transformation in Civil War, winner 2021-22 Best Book Conflict Processes Section Award

Manuel P Teodoro, Samantha Zuhlke and David Switzer, The Profits of Distrust: Citizen-Consumers, Drinking Water, and the Crisis of Confidence in American Government, winner Lynton Keith Caldwell Award

James Tully, Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity, winner Benjamin E Lippincott Award

Denise Sienli van der Kamp, Clean Air at What Cost?: The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China, winner 2025 Lynton Keith Caldwell Award

Ezgi Yildiz, Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture, winner Best Book Award of the Human Rights Section

2025 PROSE Awards (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence)

Michael A Box and Gail P Box, The Science of Our Changing Climate, finalist PROSE, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Katherine Butler Schofield, Music and Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, 1748-1858, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Sheron Fraser-Burgess, Jessica Heybach and Dini Metro-Roland, The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education, finalist PROSE, Social Sciences

Linda Gask, Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change, winner PROSE, Biological and Life Sciences

Andrew Gelman and Aki Vehtari, Active Statistics: Stories, Games, Problems, and Hands-on Demonstrations for Applied Regression and Causal Inference, winner PROSE, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Peter Harrison, Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Julia Kindt, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories: Ten Ancient Creatures That Make Us Human, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Carolyn Laferrière, Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Shawn Loewen and Masatoshi Sato, A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning, winner PROSE, Humanities

Yaron Matras, Speech and the City: Multilingualism, Decoloniality and the Civic University, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Fathali M Moghaddam, The Psychology of Revolution, finalist PROSE, Social Sciences

Lien-Hang T Nguyen, Edward Miller, Andrew Preston and Pierre Asselin, Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, winner PROSE, Humanities and winner PROSE Multi Volume

Stephen Turton, Before the Word was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600-1930, finalist PROSE, Humanities

Thomas Vidick and Stephanie Wehner, Introduction to Quantum Cryptography, finalist PROSE, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Lijing Wang, David Zhen Yin and Jef Caers, Data Science for the Geosciences, winner PROSE, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Lawson R Wulsin, Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It, finalist PROSE, Biological and Life Sciences

2025 Choice Outstanding Titles

H Spencer Banzhaf, Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics, winner

Michal Biran and Hodong Kim, The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, winner

Michael Borshuk, Jazz and American Culture, winner

Michael Brown, Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793–1912, winner

Ethan O Bryson and Christine E Boxhorn, Opioid Epidemic: Origins, Current State and Potential Solutions, winner

Robert Bud, Applied Science: Knowledge, Modernity and Britain’s Public Realm, winner

Bruce Campbell, Philip Thornton, Ana Maria Loboguerrero, Dhanush Dinesh and Andreea Nowak, Transforming Food Systems Under Climate Change Through Innovation, winner

Richard W Carney, China’s Chance to Lead: Acquiring Global Influence via Infrastructure Development and Digitalization, winner

Stuart Carroll, Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe, winner

Miguel A Centeno and Agustin E Ferrero, State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: The Neoliberal State and Beyond, winner

Anindya S Chakrabarti, K Shuvo Bakar, Anirban Chakraborti, Data Science for Complex Systems, winner

Anthony R DiMaggio, Fake News in America: Contested Meanings in the Post-Truth Era, winner

James Owen Drife, Gwyneth Lewis, James P Neilson, Marian Knight, Griselda Cooper and Roch Cantwell, Why Mothers Died and How Their Lives Are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths, winner

James N Druckman and Elizabeth A Sharrow, Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports, winner

Giuseppe Fusco and Alessandro Minelli, Understanding Reproduction, winner

Dexter J Gabriel, Jubilee’s Experiment: The British West Indies and American Abolitionism, winner

Simcha Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, winner

Dan Gusfield, Proven Impossible: Elementary Proofs of Profound Impossibility from Arrow, Bell, Chaitin, Gödel, Turing and More, winner

Nigel Hunt, Applied Narrative Psychology, winner

John Claiborne Isbell, Staël, Romanticism and Revolution: The Life and Times of the First European, winner

Michael Kwet, The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance, winner

Eric Loth, Fluid Dynamics of Particles, Drops, and Bubbles, winner

Kelvin E Y Low, Sensory Anthropology: Culture and Experience in Asia, winner

Tina Malti and Maayan Davidov, The Cambridge Handbook of Prosociality: Development, Mechanisms, Promotion, winner

Bruce Marsh, Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, winner

Alexus McLeod, An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy, winner

Tina Miller, Motherhood: Contemporary Transitions and Generational Change, winner

Bernard Moitt, Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial Senegal, winner

Louis A Penner, John F Dovidio, Nao Hagiwara and Brian D Smedley, Unequal Health: Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to American Health, winner

Gustavo G Politis and Luis A Borrero, The Archaeology of Patagonia and the Pampas, winner

Riccardo Rebonato, How to Think About Climate Change: Insights from Economics for the Perplexed but Open-Minded Citizen, winner

Corinne Saunders and Diane Watt, Women and Medieval Literary Culture: From the Early Middle Ages to the Fifteenth Century, winner

Ellen A Skinner and Melanie J Zimmer-Gembeck, The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping, winner

Philip Smallwood, The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson: Forms of Artistry and Thought, winner

Elliott Sober, The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities, winner

Mathias Thiemann, Taming the Cycles of Finance?: Central Banks and the Macro-Prudential Shift in Financial Regulation, winner

Peter Trudgill, The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language, winner

Graham Tucker, Nature Conservation in Europe: Approaches and Lessons, winner

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger, Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment, winner

Christy Wampole and Jason Childs, The Cambridge History of the American Essay, winner

Stuart Ward, Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain, winner

A B Watts, Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere, winner

Kurt Weyland, Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism, winner

Justin Wilkinson and Yanni Gunnell, Fluvial Megafans on Earth and Mars, winner

Lawson R Wulsin, Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It, winner

Gabriel Zuchtriegel, The Making of the Doric Temple: Architecture, Religion, and Social Change in Archaic Greece, winner

ELTons 2024 (British Council awards for innovations in English Language Teaching)

Matthew T Ellman and Peter Lucantoni, From Teacher to Trainer, finalist in Innovation in Teacher Resources category

Outstanding Achievement Award went to our highly regarded series editor, Scott Thornbury (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers series)

e-Assessment Best Practitioner of the Year-Team Award

Shortlisted for our Assessing programming in Computer Science submission

Equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDIB) awards won by our International Education group

International Forums of Inclusion Practitioners (IFIP) Global Inclusion Award (Category 2: social-emotional, mental health, wellbeing) for our Primary and Lower Secondary Wellbeing framework

Disability Smart Inclusive Product Design Award of the Business Disability Forum for our Cambridge Latin Course developed in partnership with the Cambridge School Classics Project

Alison Morrison Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award category of the Independent Publishing Awards, for embedding EDIB and accessibility in our global publishing programmes with highlights from the work of the Australia and the Sub-Saharan Africa teams

Other awards

Cambridge’s Senior Research Manager, Nicholas Glasson won the Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award for his doctoral dissertation in the field of language assessment

The HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship was shortlisted for the HundrED Global Collection 2026, which highlights the most scalable and impactful education innovations

The HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship was shortlisted for the Bett Award 2025 for Transformational Impact

The Partnership for Education team were shortlisted for Team of the Year at the British Educational Suppliers Association Awards 2025