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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · 14d

Today is the final day to submit a nomination for the 2026 Dan David Prize.

Nominations close at 11:59pm PST ⌛

Submitting a nomination is quick & easy:
- Submit the nominee’s CV
- Provide a list of relevant work/publications
- Answer 3 brief questions

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · 15d

The deadline to nominate someone for the 2026 Dan David Prize is TOMORROW at 11:59pm PST.

Submitting a nomination is quick and easy. Nominators will be asked to provide the nominee’s CV and list of relevant work or publications, and answer three brief questions.

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · 22d

Only 1 week left to nominate for the 2026 Dan David Prize⏳

Deadline: Weds 24 Sept, 2025 (11:59pm PST).

Up to 9 early & midcareer scholars & practitioners in the historical disciplines will be awarded $300,000 each in recognition of excellent work & future potential.

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Graphic advertising the call for nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize. Nominees for the 2026 Dan David Prize can come from any field related to the study of the human past, both within academia and outside it, including: History, Art History, Anthropology, Paleontology, Digital Humanities, Museums and Heritage, Public History, Curation and Archaeology.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · 28d

Do you know a groundbreaking researcher doing excellent work related to history & the human past?

Nominate them for the 2026 Dan David Prize.

Up to 9 early & midcareer scholars & practitioners will be awarded $300,000 each.

Nominations close on September 24, 2025 ⌛

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Aug 13

Nominate an early or midcareer scholar or practitioner for the 2026 Dan David Prize, the world's largest history prize.

Nominators will need to provide the nominee’s CV and a list of relevant work/publications, and answer a few brief questions.

Deadline: Sept 24, 2025

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Call for Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Jul 30

Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open.

Deadline: Sept 24, 2025⌛

Up to 9 winners will be awarded $300,000 each.

Nominees can work in any discipline which focuses on the human past, be within or outside of academia, and be based anywhere in the world: dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Graphic which lists the types of academic disciplines that nominees for the Dan David Prize may be working in, including History, Art History, Anthropology, Paleontology, Digital Humanities, Museums and Heritage, Public History, Curation and Archaeology.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Jul 14

Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open📣

Nominate bold & creative early or midcareer scholars & practitioners in any discipline related to history and the human past

🏆Winners are awarded $300K each
👩‍💻Anyone can nominate
⏳Deadline: Sept 24, 2025

dandavidprize.org/nominate/

Nominations for the 2026 Dan David Prize are open. Deadline for nominations is September 24, 2025.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Jul 10

We mourn the passing of Zelig Eshhar, a 2021 Dan David Prize laureate. Eshhar was an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a pioneer of the CAR-T cell approach and its application for cancer therapy.

Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Jun 10

Announcing the winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize – the world's largest history prize.

Winners receive $300,000 each in recognition of their contribution to the study of the past and to support their future endeavors.

Congratulations to this year's winners 👏

dandavidprize.org/winners

Image with the photos of the nine winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize. From left to right and top to bottom, they are Mackenzie Cooley, Bar Kribus, Fred Kuwornu, Dmitri Levitin, Beth Lew-Williams, Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Hannah Marcus, Caroline Sturdy Colls, Alina Șerban.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · May 19

When we think of Viking raiders, we don't tend to think of women & children. However, new bioarchaeological methods have caused us to think again & reassess women & children's roles in Viking society.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Cat Jarman is a public archaeologist specializing in the Viking Age 🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Cat Jarman

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · May 7

2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person helps Hollywood actor Andrew Garfield uncover his family history on BBC show ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’

Katarzyna helps Andrew explore why his Jewish ancestors may have left Poland in the early 20th Century.

Those in the UK can watch on BBC Iplayer 👇

Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 22: 1. Andrew Garfield

Worthy of a film plot line, Andrew Garfield’s family history takes him from Nazi-occupied Poland to early Hollywood glamour as he uncovers stories which veer from tragedy to hope.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · May 1

"It is not the celebrated constitution, but the Indian voters themselves that have, over the years, doggedly held authoritarianism at bay. Only time will tell how long they will continue to do this", writes 2024 Dan David Prize winner Tripurdaman Singh, in @uk.theconversation.com

Read here👇

Birth of India: ‘biggest experiment’ with democracy was a huge gamble. Happily the people have made it work – here’s how

India’s constitution always gave the executive a great deal of power, but the diversity of the country’s electorate has ensured that this power has been diluted.

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Apr 23

By 1940, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon, a working-poor Black woman in the US, had built up >300,000 supporters for her Black nationalist group, the Peace Movement of Ethiopia.

For 2024 DDP winner Keisha N. Blain, it is crucial to tell histories like this, which are so often missing from the narrative.🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Keisha N. Blain

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Apr 16

In the long 18thC, bundles of carefully chosen ingredients lent people across the Afro-Atlantic world empowerment & protection, in face of the violent realities of enslavement.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Cécile Fromont studies the visual & material cultures of the Afro-Atlantic world 🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Cécile Fromont

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Apr 9

“The lesson from history is these are not mild ailments...These are diseases that have killed hundreds of millions of people – and quite horribly too.”

2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius is quoted in @theguardian.com providing historical context to the recent measles outbreak in the US 👇

‘The goal is to disassemble public health’: experts warn against US turn to vaccine skepticism

As measles sickens hundreds and health secretary RFK Jr spreads dubious information, experts sound the alarm

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Apr 1

In 1640s England, stained glass windows in churches were condemned by the Puritan parliament as popish; many were destroyed.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Daniel Jütte researches Early Modern European history. His work asks what we can learn from the history of inconspicuous materials, like glass. 🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Daniel Jütte

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Mar 27

In 1619, the process that culminated in British privateers selling the first enslaved Africans in British North America involved global actors & forces, spanning the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Africa & Asia.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Stuart M. McManus is a historian of the global Renaissance. 🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Stuart M. McManus

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Mar 25

How did someone’s vulnerability to Yellow Fever make or break their life chances and future prosperity in 19th Century New Orleans?

Listen to 2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius discuss her research on the Road to Now podcast @roadtonow.bsky.social 🗃️

Necropolis: Disease, Power & Capitalism in 19th Century New Orleans w/ Kathryn Olivarius (#329) | The Road to Now

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Mar 18

Congratulations to 2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person, who was recently appointed Director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum 👏

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Mar 10

In mid-19thC New Orleans, yellow fever killed 50% of victims. Survivors gained the status of “acclimated citizens”, gaining socio-economic capital. Staying was risky, but could reap big rewards.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Kathryn Olivarius researches disease & capitalism in the antebellum South. 🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Kathryn Olivarius

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Mar 3

After a 17 year pilgrimage to India, Buddhist monk Xuanzang returned to his homeland of China in 645, bringing with him new Buddhist texts & relics, & marking a key moment in the transmission of Buddhism into China.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Ben Brose is a historian of Buddhism & Asian religion.🗃️

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Ben Brose

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Feb 25

In 1940, historian Emanuel Ringelblum began a clandestine archive of the Warsaw Ghetto, which collected testimonies from women, children, refugees & suspected collaborators.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Katarzyna Person highlights this archive, which uncovers marginalized voices & untold stories 🗃️.

2024 Dan David Prize Winner Katarzyna Person

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Feb 19

In 1951, as politicians debated the 1st Amendment to India's Constitution, a storm hit New Delhi; a timely metaphor for the political storm engulfing the nation.

2024 Dan David Prize winner Tripurdaman Singh is a historian of colonialism, decolonization & democracy in modern South Asia 🗃️

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2024 Dan David Prize Winner Tripurdaman Singh

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Feb 11

Why does history matter?

From wanting to understand an increasingly complex world, to the significance of finding the histories about people who look like themselves, 2024 Dan David Prize winners tell us why studying the past is important to them.

9 Winners, 5 Questions. Watch. 🗃️

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9 Winners, 5 Questions: Why does telling stories about the past matter?

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Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org · Feb 4

Historical sources and archaeological evidence are often patchy and incomplete. Some 2024 Dan David Prize winners tell us how they approach the challenges and gaps in their sources, and remind us that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

9 Winners, 5 Questions. Watch. 🗃️

9 Winners, 5 Questions: How do you deal with gaps in the sources?

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