Awards

MIT Press authors are recipients of some of the most prestigious academic prizes in the world. This includes thirty Nobel Prizes in fields ranging from economics to physics. MIT Press books have also won PROSE Awards, Choice Awards, and others.

  • Red Lines

    Red Lines

    Political Cartoons and the Struggle against Censorship

    Cherian George and Sonny Liew

    Finalist for the PROSE Award Finalist, Nonfiction Graphic Novels, 2022

    Finalist for the PROSE Award, Media and Cultural Studies, Non-Fiction Graphic Novels, 2022

    • Paperback $34.95
  • Dressing Up

    Dressing Up

    The Women Who Influenced French Fashion

    Elizabeth L. Block

    Winner of the Victorian Society of American Book Award, 2022

    Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year, 2022

    Winner of the Pasold Fund Publication Grant, 2020

    Winner of Aileen Ribeiro Grant, Association of Dress Historians, 2020

    • Hardcover $34.95
  • Electrify

    Electrify

    An Optimist's Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

    Saul Griffith

    Winner of the Axiom Business Book Awards Silver Medal, Business Intelligence/Innovation, 2022

    • Hardcover $24.95
    • Paperback $18.95
  • Owning the Street

    Owning the Street

    The Everyday Life of Property

    Amelia Thorpe

    Shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize, Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2022

    Shortlisted for an Australian Legal Research Awards Book Award, 2022

    • Paperback $35.00
  • The Alchemy of Us

    The Alchemy of Us

    How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

    Ainissa Ramirez

    Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SBF Prize, Young Adult Science Book Category, 2021

    Winner of the Brown University Book Award, 2021

    Winner of the Connecticut Book Award, Non-Fiction, 2021

    Winner of the Sally Hacker Prize, 2021

    Named one of the Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Science Books, 2020

    Winner of the Florida's Authors and Publisher's Association Prize, Non-Fiction, 2020

    Finalist for the 41st Los Angeles Times Book Awards, Science and Technology, 2020

    Winner of the Foreword Reviews Book Awards Bronze Medal, Science and Technology, 2020

    • Hardcover $27.95
    • Paperback $17.95
  • The Charisma Machine

    The Charisma Machine

    The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

    Morgan G. Ames

    Winner of the Computer History Museum Prize, SIGCIS, 2021

    Winner of the Sally Hacker Prize 2020

    Winner of the Best Information Science Book Award, Association for Information Science and Technology, 2020

    Finalist for the ARSTM Book Award, 2020

    • Paperback $35.00