The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize, annually awarding 9 prizes of $300,000 each to early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines, to acknowledge their outstanding achievements and support future work.

We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2024 Dan David Prize are now open and we will be accepting submissions until October 11, 2023.

Nominees can come from any field related to the study of the human past, both within academia and outside it.

The list of previous winners can be found here.

We are looking for researchers in disciplines such as history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities and human palaeontology, as well as independent scholars, public historians, museum curators and documentary filmmakers.