Nine MIT Press titles are recognized by the PROSE Awards in 2024, including subject category winners Mnemonic Ecologies and Ending Epidemics
The MIT Press is honored to have nine books recognized at this year’s annual PROSE Awards, with two subject category winners and seven additional titles chosen as finalists. The PROSE awards recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by celebrating the authors, editors, and publishers whose landmark works have made significant advancements in their respective fields of study each year. Category winners are eligible for the next level of PROSE honors—the Awards for Excellence and the R.R. Hawkins Award, which will be announced in the coming weeks. Congratulations to all authors whose work has been named a winner or finalist.
Winners
Environmental Science
Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ancient History
- Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion by Richard Conniff
Finalists
Business, Finance, and Management
- The Great Remobilization: Strategies and Designs for a Smarter Global Future by Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse
Computing and Information Sciences
- Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming by Michael L. Littman
- Causal Analysis: Impact Evaluation and Causal Machine Learning with Applications in R by Martin Huber
Engineering and Technology
- Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability by Christoph Becker
Popular Science and Mathematics
- Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals by Christopher J. Preston
- More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard
Mathematics and Statistics
- Regression Modeling for Linguistic Data by Morgan Sonderegger
The full list of winners and finalists can be found here.