The PROSE Awards

The 2011 PROSE Awards winners will be announced on February 2, 2012 live at the PROSE Awards Luncheon and via webcast. View the webcast HERE at 12-1:30pm (ET) on February 2nd!

The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

Each year, publishers and authors are recognized at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., for their commitment to pioneering works of research and for contributing to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields. The R.R. Hawkins Award, presented to the most outstanding work among the publications selected, has been given to more than 30 works since its inception. Indeed, winners represent a broad range of disciplines: they have included Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press), Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy (Elsevier), The Dream of the Poem (Princeton University Press) and The Race Between Education and Technology (Harvard University Press). This year, the R.R. Hawkins Award was presented to Yale University Press for Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis and David Richardson.

The 2011 Awards planning committee has undertaken a number of changes to strengthen the level of participation among member publishers and the representation of published projects. In addition to presenting a total of 50 awards, the 2011 PROSE program is expanding its book subject and journals categories to include electronic publications, including subject category judges in the evaluation of journal and eproduct entries throughout the judging process, and, for the first time in the history of the awards program, extending eligibility to Association of American Publishers (AAP) members.