Dan_David_Prize

Dan David Prize

Dan David Prize

Annual history awards

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.[1] Nine prizes of $300,000 are awarded each year to outstanding early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines.[2] The Prize has an annual purse of $3 million, making it the largest history award in the world,[3][4] including $300,000 funding an international postdoctoral fellowship program at Tel Aviv University, where the Prize is headquartered. The Prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation.[5]

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Jimmy Wales accepting the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University, 2015

Until 2021 the Prize comprised 3 annual prizes of $1 million[6] 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[2] and all those who deepen our knowledge and understanding of the past.

History

The Dan David Foundation was founded in 2000 with a $100 million endowment by Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist Dan David.[7]

Laureates include cellist Yo-Yo Ma (2006), Israeli author Amos Oz (2008), U.S. Vice President Al Gore (2008), Canadian author Margaret Atwood (2010), French economist Esther Duflo, and immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci (2021).[8]

In 2016, Catherine Hall of University College London rejected the Dan David Prize. Her prize money was donated to fund scholarships at Tel Aviv University.[9]

Transition to new focus

The Dan David Prize was founded with the goal of rewarding and encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms.[10]

Each year, three prizes of $1 million were awarded in rotating fields to those who made outstanding contributions to humanity.  

In anticipation of the Prize’s 20th anniversary in 2021, the Dan David Prize refocused in a new direction, citing the decline of global investment in the humanities and the relative scarcity of major prizes in the humanities. The redesigned prize[11] focuses on supporting outstanding research in the historical disciplines and celebrating scholars and practitioners whose work illuminates the human past and enriches public debate with a deeper understanding of history.

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[12] to recognize significant achievements in the study of the past and support the winners’ future endeavours. From 2022, there will no longer be a distinction between three prize categories.

Winners (from 2022)

From 2022 recipients of the Prize were called winners rather than laureates. The first cohort of Prize winners was announced on March 1, 2022.[13]

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Laureates (2002–2021)

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See also

References

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    "Dan David Prize". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    "The Prize". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    Prize, Dan David. "Dan David Prize Relaunches as the Largest History Prize in the World". WFMZ.com. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    "Dan David Foundation". www.dandavid.org. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    Lonas, Lexi (15 February 2021). "Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for 'defending science'". The Hill. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    "The true worth of Dan David – Haaretz – Israel News". Haaretz. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
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    Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (16 February 2021). "Covid-19: Biden Suggests All Americans Could Be Offered Vaccines by August". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
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    Prominent Feminist Historian Rejects Israeli Academic Award, Haaretz, 22 May 2016; UK historian declines Israeli prize, citing conflict with Palestinians, Times of Israel, 22 May 2016; Haggai Matar: Famed feminist British historian refuses prestigious Israeli award, +972 Magazine, 22 May 2016; , TimesHigherEducation, 23 May 2016.
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    "The Prize 2001 – 2021". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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    "The Prize". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
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    "Nominate". Dan David Prize. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
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    "A new MacArthur-style 'genius grant' for history names its first winners". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
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    "2003 Present – Print & Electronic Media: James Nachtwey". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
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    "Laureates 2003". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
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    Al Gore – Present 2008 Laureate – Dan David Prize, TAU Archived 3 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
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    "Laureates 2009". Dan David Prize. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
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    "Coen brothers win $1m Dan David Prize". BBC News. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011. The pair were given the Dan David Prize – awarded to people who have made 'an outstanding contribution to humanity' – at Tel Aviv University in Israel.
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