DAN DAVID PRIZE, WORLD'S LARGEST HISTORY PRIZE, ANNOUNCES 2024 WINNERS
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TEL AVIV, Israel, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world, today announced its 2024 winners – nine scholars whose work illuminates the past in bold and creative ways. This year's winners are early and mid career researchers who work in Europe, Asia and North America. Each will receive $300,000 (USD) in recognition of their achievements and to support their future endeavors.
"To decode the complexities of the present and face future challenges, we need to first of all better understand our past," said Ariel David, board member of the Prize and son of Dan David, the founder of the Prize. "By using innovative methods and source materials, our winners have offered us precious new historical insight, shedding light on everything from the birth of contemporary India to the underground archive of the Warsaw Ghetto and the deep connections of the Vikings to the East."
The 2024 Dan David Prize winners are:
"Archaeology and history offer ways into the backstories that frame our current lives," said Professor Tim Cole, historian and Academic Advisor to the Dan David Prize. "As well as helping us understand how we have ended up where we are, deep knowledge of the past is a reminder that things don't need to stay the same - and indeed that things never stay the same. Looking to the past is also an invitation to look to different futures."
The winners were selected after nominations from colleagues, institutions and the general public were submitted in an open nomination process and were chosen by a global committee of experts that changes annually. This year's selection committee members are affiliated with leading academic institutions in Europe, North America, India and Brazil. A full list of the 2024 committee is available here. The 2024 winners received the prize at a gathering in Italy this summer.
The Dan David Prize was first established in 2001 by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Dan David, to reward innovative and interdisciplinary work that contributed to humanity. In 2021, the Prize was relaunched with a focus on historical research, honoring the founder's passion for history and archaeology. It now rewards early and mid career scholars to help them fulfill their potential at a time when support for the humanities is dwindling. Nominations for the 2025 Dan David Prize are now being accepted online.
The late Dan David lived through persecution in Nazi-occupied and then Communist Romania, becoming an accomplished .
About the Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize, endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at
Tel Aviv University, is the largest history prize in the world.
Dan David, the founder of the Prize, believed that knowledge of the past enriches us and helps us grapple with the challenges of the present, and is crucial for reimagining our collective future. At a time of diminishing support for the humanities, the Prize celebrates the next generation of outstanding historians, archaeologists, curators and digital humanists. Each year, up to nine researchers are awarded
$300,000 each in recognition of their achievements and to support their future endeavors.
To learn more about Dan David, the Prize and the 2024 winners, visit www.dandavidprize.org.
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