פרס דן דוד - Dan David Prize

The Dan David Prize is an international group of awards that recognize and support outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past.
Nine prizes of $300,000 are awarded each year to outstanding early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines.
The Prize has an annual purse of $3 million, making it the largest history award in the world, including $300,000 funding an international postdoctoral fellowship program at Tel Aviv University, where the Prize is headquartered.
The Prize is endowed by the an David Foundation.

Until 2021 the Prize comprised 3 annual prizes of $1 million for innovative and interdisciplinary research in three time dimensions: Past, Present and Future. Prize laureates donated 10 percent of their prize money to doctoral scholarships for outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholarships in their own field from around the world.

In September 2021, the Dan David Prize announced that it would shift its focus to support the work of "historians, art historians, archaeologists, digital humanists, curators, documentary filmmakers and all those who deepen our knowledge and understanding of the past".

The Prize announced that starting in 2022 it would award up to nine prizes of $300,000 each year to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners around the world to recognize significant achievements in the study of the past and support the winners’ future endeavors.

From 2022, there will no longer be a distinction between three prize categories.

Prize Winners (from 2022)

• 2024:
  • Keisha N. Blain (b. 1985) - Black internationalism and Black women’s activism in the 20th century
  • Benjamin Brose - Cultural histories of Buddhism and Asian religion
  • Cécile Fromont () - Visual and material cultures of Early modern Africa, Latin America and Europe
  • Cat Jarman (b. 1982) - Archaeology of the Viking Age and public archaeology
  • Daniel Jütte - Cultural histories of material objects and everyday technologies in Europe
  • Stuart M. McManus - Global histories of the Renaissance and of slavery
  • Kathryn Olivarius (b. 1989) - Disease, citizenship and economics in the antebellum South of the United States
  • Katarzyna Person - Holocaust archives and the recovery of marginalized voices
  • Tripurdaman Singh - Colonialism, decolonisation and the birth of democracy in South Asia
• 2023:
  • Saheed Aderinto (b. 1979) - Deploying unusual lenses and categories like sexuality, childhood, guns, animals and music for understanding the Nigerian past
  • Ana Antic - Historian. Exploring issues of politics, violence and mental health;
  • Karma Ben Johanan - Intellectual historian, focusing on Catholic–Jewish interactions;
  • Elise K. Burton - Historian of science, race and nationalism in the modern Middle East;
  • Adam Clulow - Global historian, Deploying video games and virtual reality for popularising history
  • Krista Goff - Historian Understanding experiences of understudied ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union.
  • Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers - Historian exploring women’s social, economic and legal relationships to enslaved people and to the slave trade in the trans-Atlantic world.
  • Anita Radini - “Archaeologist of dirt”
  • Chao Tayiana Maina () - Public historian, preserve previously hidden or suppressed historical narratives in Kenya.
• 2022:
  • Mirjam Brusius - Visual and material culture in global and colonial contexts;
  • Bartow Elmore - Environmental history of global capitalism;
  • Tyrone McKinley Freeman - History of African American philanthropy;
  • Verena Krebs (b. 1984) - Medieval Ethiopia and cross-cultural encounters;
  • Efthymia Nikita () - Bioarchaeology of the Mediterranean;
  • Nana Oforiatta Ayim () - Curator, writer, artist and art historian centering African heritage;
  • Kristina Richardson - Medieval Islamic world and the Roma;
  • Natalia Romik - Architect and public historian who works to preserve the memory of Jewish life in Eastern Europe;
  • Kimberly Welch - Legal history of the antebellum South.

Laureates (2002 - 2021)

• 2021:
  • Past – History of Health and Medicine: Alison Bashford FAHA, FBA (b. 1963); Katharine Park (); Keith Wailoo ();
  • Present – Public Health: Anthony Fauci (b. 1940);
  • Future – Molecular Medicine: Zelig Eshhar (b. 1941); Carl H. June (b. 1953); Steven Rosenberg (b. 1940);
• 2020:
  • Past – Cultural Preservation and Revival: Lonnie G. Bunch III (b. 1952); Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (b. 1942);
  • Present – Gender Equality: Gita Sen () ; Debora Diniz ();
  • Future – Artificial Intelligence: Sir Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 (b. 1976); Amnon Shashua (b. 1960);
• 2019:
  • Past – Macro History: Kenneth Pomeranz FBA (b. 1958); Sanjay Subrahmanyam (b. 1961);
  • Present – Defending Democracy: Michael Grant Ignatieff (b. 1947); Reporters Without Borders;
  • Future – Combatting Climate Change; Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (b. 1956);
• 2018:
  • Past – History of Science: Lorraine Daston (b. 1951); Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023); Simon J. Schaffer (b. 1955);
  • Present – Bioethics: Ezekiel "Zeke" Jonathan Emanuel (b. 1957); Jonathan Glover (b. 1941); Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, CH, DBE, FBA, FMedSci (1924–2019);
  • Future – Personalized Medicine: Carlo M. Croce (b. 1944); Mary-Claire King (b. 1946) ; Bert Vogelstein (b. 1949);
• 2017:
  • Past – Archeology and Natural Sciences; Svante Pääbo, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022 (b. 1955);
  • Present – Literature: Jamaica Kincaid (b. 1949); A. B. Yehoshua (1936-2022);
  • Future – Astronomy: Neil Gehrels (1952–2017); Shinivas Kulkarni (b. 1956); Andrzej Udalski (b. 1957);
• 2016:
  • Past – Social History – New Directions: Inga Clendinnen (b. 1934); Arlette Farge (b. 1941) ;
  • Present – Combatting Poverty: Anthony "Tony" B. Atkinson CBE FBA (1944-2017); Francois Bourguignon (b. 1945); James J. Heckman Nobel Prize in Economics 2000 (b. 1944);
  • Future – Nanoscience: Paul Alivisatos (b. 1959); Chad Mirkin (b. 1963); Sir John Brian Pendry, FRS (b. 1943)
• 2015:
  • Past – Retrieving the Past: Historians and their Sources: Peter Brown FRS; (b. 1939); Alessandro Portelli (b. 1942);
  • Present – The Information Revolution: Jimmy Wales (b. 1966);
  • Future – Bioinformatics: Cyrus Chothia FRS (1942-2019); David Haussler (b. 1953); Michael Waterman (b. 1942)
• 2014:
  • Past – History and Memory: Krzysztof Czyzewsk (b. 1958); Pierre Nora (b. 1931); Saul Friedländer (b. 1932);
  • Present – Combating Memory Loss: Sir John Anyhony Hardy FRS (b. 1954); Peter St. George-Hyslop (b. 1953); Brenda Milner CC GOQ FRS FRSC (b. 1918!);
  • Future – Artificial Intelligence, The Digital Mind: Marvin Minsky (1927-2016);
• 2013:
  • Past – Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World: Sir Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd FBA FLSW (b. 1933);
  • Present – Ideas, Public Intellectuals and Contemporary Philosophers: Michel Serres (1931-2019); Leon Wieseltier (b. 1952);
  • Future – Preventive Medicine: Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2019 (b. 1972); Alfred Sommer (b. 1942);
• 2012:
  • Past – History/Biography: Robert Conquest CMG, OBE, FBA, FAAAS, FRSL, FBIS (1917-2015); Sir Martin John Gilbert (1936-2015);
  • Present – Plastic Arts: William Kentridge (b.1955);
  • Future – Genome Research: David Botstein (b. 1942); Eric Lander (b. 1957); J. Craig Venter (b. 1946);
• 2011:
  • Past – Evolution: Marcus William Feldman (b. 1942);
  • Present – Cinema and Society: Coen Brothers - Joel David Coen (b. 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (b. 1957)
  • Future – Ageing: Facing the Challenge: Cynthia Kenyon; Gary Ruvkun, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 (b. 1952);
• 2010:
  • Past – March Towards Democracy: Giorgio Napolitano (1925-2023);
  • Present – Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century: Margaret Atwood (b. 1939); Amitav Ghosh (b. 1956);
  • Future – Computers and Telecommunications: Leonard Kleinrock; Gordon E. Moore; Michael O. Rabin (b. 1931);
• 2009:
  • Past – Astrophysics – History of the Universe: Paolo de Bernardis; Andrew E. Lange (1957–2010); Paul Richards;
  • Present – Leadership: Sir Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair, KG, PCr; (b. 1953);
  • Future – Global Public Health: Robert Gallo (b. 1937);
• 2008:
  • Past – Creative Rendering of the Past: Amos Oz (1939-2018); Tom Stoppard (b. 1937); Atom Egoyan (b. 1960);
  • Present – Social Responsibility: Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, III (b. 1948);
  • Future – Geosciences: Ellen Mosley-Thompson () & Lonnie Thompson (b. 1948); Geoffrey Eglinton FRS (1927–2016);
• 2007:
  • Past – Historians: Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014);
  • Present – Contemporary Music: Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955); Zubin Mehta (b. 1936);
  • Future – Quest for Energy: James E. Hansen (b. 1941); Jerry Olson (b. ); Sarah Kurtz ( );
• 2006:
  • Past – Music: Yo-Yo Ma (b. 1955);
  • Present – Journalism: Magdi Allam (b. 1952); Monica Gonzalez; Adam Michnik; Mohamad (b. 1941);
  • Future – Treatment of cancer: John Mendelsohn (1936-2019); Joseph Schlessinger (b. 1945);
• 2005:
  • Past- Archaeology: Graeme William Walter Barker, CBE, FBA (b. 1946); Israel Finkelstein (b.1949);
  • Present – The Performing Arts: Film, Theater, Dance, Music: Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (1925-2022);
  • Future – Materials science: Robert Langer (b. 1948); George Whitesides (b. 1939); C.N.R. Rao FNA, FASc, FRS, FTWAS, HonFRSC, MAE, HonFInstP (b. 1934);
• 2004:
  • Past – Cities: Historical legacy: Rome; Istanbul; Jerusalem;
  • Present – Leadership: Changing our World: Klaus Schwab (b. 1938);
  • Future – Brain sciences: Robert Wurtz (b. 1936); Amiram Grinvald (1945-2021); William Newsome (b. 1952);
• 2003:
  • Past – Paleoanthropology: Michel Brunet (b. 1940);
  • Present – Print & electronic media: James Nachtwey; Frederick Wiseman (b. 1948);
  • Future – cosmology & astronomy: John Bahcall (1934-2005);
• 2002:
  • Past – History: Warburg Library (U. of London);
  • Present – Technology, Information and Society: Daniel Hillis; (b. 1956)
  • Future – Life sciences: Sydney Brenner, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002 (1927-2019); Sir John Edward Sulston, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2002 (1942-2018); Robert Hugh "Bob" Waterston (b. 1943);