PROSE Awards

PROSE Awards
Awarded for '...the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.'
Country United States
Presented by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers
First awarded 1976
Official website http://proseawards.com/index.html

The PROSE Awards are presented annually since 1956 by the Association of American Publishers Professional Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division to recognize contributions in the field of professional and scholarly publishing. [1] Awards are presented at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC.

Categories

Book subject categories:

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:

Journals categories – For print and electronic journals.

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:

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. Hawkins winners have included Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs) (John Wiley & Sons), Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Yale University Press), The Diffusion Handbook (McGraw-Hill) and Alan Turing: His Work and Impact (Elsevier). The 2016 R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to University of California Press for The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology by Aldon Morris.[3]

Year Award Publisher Book / Journal / eProduct
2016 R.R. Hawkins Award University of California Press The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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 R.R. Hawkins Award The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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 R.R. Hawkins Award Elsevier Science Alan Turing: His Work and Impact
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 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
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 R.R. Hawkins Award McGraw-Hill Professional The Diffusion Handbook: Applied Solutions for Engineers
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 R.R. Hawkins Award Yale University Press Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ https://proseawards.com/
  2. ↑ https://proseawards.com/winners/
  3. ↑ https://proseawards.com/r-r-hawkins-award/
  4. ↑ http://proseawards.com/current-winners.html

References

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