| PROSE Awards | |
| Awarded For: | '...the very best in professional and scholarly publishing.' |
| Presenter: | The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers |
| Country: | United States |
| Year: | 1976 |
| Website: | http://proseawards.com/index.html |
The PROSE Awards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) are presented by the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division.[1]
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:[2]
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 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | - | 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 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century | |||
| 2013 | R.R. Hawkins Award | Alan Turing: His Work and Impact | - | 2012 | R.R. Hawkins Award | 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 | 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)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 |