# PROSE Awards

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.
| Year | Award | Publisher | Book / 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 Trade |
| 2009a | R.R. Hawkins Award | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) |
| 2009b | R.R. Hawkins Award | The University of Chicago Press | Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues |
| 2008 | R.R. Hawkins Award | Harvard University Press | The Race Between Education & Technology |
| 2007 | R.R. Hawkins Award | Princeton University Press | The Dream of the Poem |
| 2006 | R.R. Hawkins Award | Harvard University Press | Evolutionary Dynamics |
| 2005 | R.R. Hawkins Award | Elsevier | Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy |

## Other awards

| Year | Award | Publisher | Book / 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 |