The PROSE Awards (where PROSE is an abbreviation for "professional and scholarly excellence") are presented by the Association of American Publishers' (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division.
Presented since 1976, the awards annually recognize distinguished professional and scholarly books, reference works, journals, and electronic content. The awards are judged by peer publishers, academics, librarians, and medical professionals. Publishers and authors are honored at a luncheon ceremony at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC.
In recent years, the PROSE Awards luncheon has featured a live webcast of the event, original short films and several multimedia presentations highlighting winners.
Awards by the numbers:
Five “best of” awards chosen from 53 book, reference, journal and e-product categories; Forty-five book subject categories for traditional print, electronic publications and print/electronic packages; and Six awards for electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components.
Categories Book subject categories: Humanities Archeology and Ancient History Art Exhibitions Art History and Criticism Biography and Autobiography Classics European and World History Language and Linguistics Literature Media and Cultural Studies Music and the Performing Arts Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher Philosophy Textbook/Humanities Theology and Religious Studies U.S. History Biological and Life Sciences Biological Sciences Biomedicine and Neuroscience Clinical Medicine Nursing and Allied Health Sciences Textbook/Biological and Life Sciences Social Sciences Anthropology Architecture and Urban Planning Business, Finance and Management Economics Education Practice Education Theory Government and Politics Law and Legal Studies Psychology Sociology and Social Work Textbook/Social Sciences Physical Sciences & Mathematics Chemistry and Physics Computing and Information Sciences Cosmology and Astronomy Earth Science Engineering and Technology Environmental Science History of Science, Medicine and Technology Mathematics Popular Science and Popular Mathematics Textbook/Physical Sciences and Mathematics Reference Works Multivolume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences Multivolume Reference/Science Single Volume Reference/ Humanities and Social Sciences Single Volume Reference/Science
Electronic publication categories – For electronic products, including electronic platforms and e-products with multiple components. Electronic platforms and products are recognized in the following six categories: Best in Biological and Life Sciences Best in Humanities Best Multidiscipline Platform Best in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Best in Social Sciences Innovation in ePublishing (Discretionary)
Journals categories – For print and electronic journals. Best New Journal in Science, Technology and Medicine Best New Journal in Social Sciences and Humanities
The PROSE Awards for Excellence – Chosen from among the winners of the books, eproducts and journals categories. One winner is recognized in each of the following categories: Award for Excellence in Biology and Life Sciences Award for Excellence in Humanities Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Award for Excellence in Reference Works Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
The R.R. Hawkins Award The R. R. Hawkins Award has been presented to the most outstanding work among each year’s PROSE Awards entries since they began in 1976.
YearAwardPublisherBook / Journal / eProduct 2021 R.R. Hawkins Award Cambridge University Press Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE 2020 R.R. Hawkins Award Yale University Press Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered 2019 R.R. Hawkins Award Oxford University Press Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President 2018 R.R. Hawkins Award Bloomsbury Publishing Arcadian Library Online 2017 R.R. Hawkins Award Yale University Press Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 2016 R.R. Hawkins Award University of California Press The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology 2015 R.R. Hawkins Award The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2013 R.R. Hawkins Award Elsevier Science Alan Turing: His Work and Impact 2012 R.R. Hawkins Award Princeton University Press Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD 2011 R.R. Hawkins Award McGraw-Hill Professional The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award Yale University Press Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade2009aR.R. Hawkins AwardJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc.Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs)2009bR.R. Hawkins AwardThe University of Chicago PressPlato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues2008R.R. Hawkins AwardHarvard University PressThe Race Between Education & Technology2007R.R. Hawkins AwardPrinceton University PressThe Dream of the Poem2006R.R. Hawkins AwardHarvard University PressEvolutionary Dynamics2005R.R. Hawkins AwardElsevierAtlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy
Other awards YearAwardPublisherBook / Journal / eProduct 2016 Award for Excellence in Humanities Cambridge University Press The Roman Forum: A Reconstruction and Architectural Guide 2016 Award for Excellence in Humanities Harvard University Press Unflattening 2016 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Princeton University Press The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: Digital Edition 2016 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences University of California Press The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology 2016 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences The MIT Press Principles of Neural Design 2016 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Elsevier/Academic Press International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2015 Award for Excellence in Humanities Cambridge University Press The Material Life of Roman Slaves 2015 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Cambridge University Press Atlas of Meteorites 2015 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Capital in the Twenty-First Century 2015 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences John Wiley and Sons Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues 2015 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the First World War 2013 Award for Excellence in Humanities HarperCollins Publishers Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker 2013 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics Elsevier Science Alan Turing: His Work and Impact 2013 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences Cambridge University Press The Body in History: Europe from the Paleolithic to the Future 2013 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences The MIT Press The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criteria Causation 2013 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Elsevier/Academic Press Epigenetic Regulation in the Nervous System: Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Impact 2012 Award for Excellence in Humanities Princeton University Press Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD 2012 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics University of California Press Atlas of Yellowstone 2012 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences Princeton University Press The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy 2012 Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences Harvard University Press Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance 2012 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Religions in America 2011 Award for Excellence in Humanities Cambridge University Press Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era, c. 680–850: A History 2011 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences Yale University Press Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms 2011 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics McGraw-Hill Professional The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers 2011 Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences Princeton University Press Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality 2011 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Princeton University Press The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds 2010 Award for Excellence in Humanities University of California Press Autobiography of Mark Twain 2010 Award for Excellence in Social Sciences Oxford University Press Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro 2010 Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Life in the World’s Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance 2010 Award for Excellence in Biological & Life Sciences Cell Press Article of the Future 2010 Award for Excellence in Reference Works Yale University Press Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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