The Dan David Prize volition grant 9 historians, archaeologists and filmmakers from astir the satellite with $300,000 for their research, the instauration announced Tuesday
JERUSALEM -- The Dan David Prize volition grant 9 historians, archaeologists and filmmakers from astir the satellite with $300,000 for their research, the instauration announced Tuesday.
The grant winners are researching a immense array of topics, from the notebook of Isaac Newton’s roommate to the past and civilization of Ethiopian Jews. The academics precocious received the prize during a ceremonial successful Italy.
The prize, based astatine Tel Aviv University, is awarded each twelvemonth to academics successful the aboriginal and mediate stages of their careers who are conducting “innovative probe connected the quality past.”
“By making groundbreaking discoveries oregon applying caller methods to humanities research, our winners perpetually situation america to deliberation astir the past portion rethinking however we shed airy connected it,” said Ariel David, whose father, Dan David, founded the prize successful 2001.
One of the winners is Beth Lew-Williams of Princeton University, a historiographer whose enactment has focused connected however ineligible favoritism impacted Chinese migration to the US and the acquisition of Chinese immigrants.
Another is Fred Kudjo Kuwornu of Do The Right Films, a filmmaker whose enactment focuses connected Black practice and identity. His caller film, We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans successful Renaissance Europe, was presented astatine the 2024 Biennale successful Venice.
Another awardee is Dmitri Levitin of the University of Utrecht and All Souls College, Oxford, a past of assistance who is collaborating connected probe into the recently discovered notebook of Isaac Newton’s assemblage roommate.
Other winners are Abidemi Babatunde Babalola of the British Museum, Mackenzie Cooley of Hamilton College, Bar Kribus of Tel Aviv University, Hannah Marcus, Harvard University, Alina Șerban, Founder of Untold Stories, and Caroline Sturdy Colls, University of Huddersfield.
Among the ranks of past winners are Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, the cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. infectious illness expert.
The grant was primitively launched to absorption connected world enactment that rewarded humanity. It has since shifted to absorption specifically connected those who survey the past, with the thought that the prize volition greatly heighten their probe abilities.
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