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Cambridge books honoured at 2024 PROSE Awards
Fourteen titles were recognised for extraordinary merit in scholarly publishing, from an alternative history of the Bible to data science and quantum phases.
Our Academic publishing excellence has been recognised at this year’s annual PROSE awards, with five of our titles named subject category winners and an additional nine chosen as finalists. Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility by Henrike Christiane Lange won the additional distinction of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities.
Since 1976, the annual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) awards have recognised publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary merit that make a significant contribution to a field of study. This year, 118 finalists were named along with 41 category winners.
Our five category winners were eligible for the next level of PROSE honours:
- The 2024 PROSE Award for Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences
- The 2024 PROSE Award for Excellence in Humanities
- The 2024 PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
- The 2024 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences
“I’m delighted to see another very strong showing for us at the annual PROSE awards. The finalists and winners from Cambridge not only put some wonderful books and authors in the spotlight, but also highlight the extraordinary breadth of our publishing.” Ben Denne, Director of Publishing, Cambridge University Press.
Our five PROSE award-winners are:
Excellence in Humanities Winner
Category Winner - Art History and Criticism
Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
Henrike Christiane Lange
Category Winner - Computing and Information Sciences
Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities
Alfred Z. Spector, Peter Norvig, Chris Wiggins, and Jeannette M. Wing
Category Winner - Theology and Religious Studies
Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
Jacob L. Wright
Category Winner - Mathematics and Statistics
Exponential Families in Theory and Practice
Bradley Efron
Category Winner - Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology
Quantum Phases of Matter
Subir Sachdev
“The PROSE Awards 2024 Finalists and Category Award winners illustrate the extraordinary depth, breadth and complexity of scholarly authorship and publishingWe are pleased to honour these works, and delighted to report that the standard for scholarly works has never been higher.” Syreeta Swann, AAP’s Chief Operating Officer.
Our nine finalists:
In addition to our five category winners, the Association of American Publishers also recognised the following nine Cambridge books as finalists:
- Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans by Sally A. Nuamah (Government and Politics category)
- Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies by Gaia Bernstein (Legal Studies and Criminology category)
- No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air by Mark Z. Jacobson (Engineering and Technology category)
- The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements by Adam Aron (Earth Science category)
- The Atmospheric General Circulation by John M. Wallace, David S. Battisti, David W. J. Thompson, and Dennis L. Hartmann (Environmental Science category)
- Modern Physics by Gary N. Felder and Kenny M. Felder (Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology category)
- Complexity Science: The Study of Emergence, by Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen (Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, and Cosmology category)
- Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture by Janet Soskice (Theology and Religious Studies category)
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion 2 Volume Hardback Set by Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire, and Giorgio Riello (World History category)
You can browse the full range of our titles by visiting cambridge.org/universitypress
