Dr Dmitri Levitin has been awarded the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest history prize.

Dmitri Levitin (All Souls College) has been awarded the Dan David Prize ($300,000), the world’s largest history prize. 

A historian of premodern knowledge who has published on the histories of scholarship, science, medicine, philosophy, theology, and European encounters with and perceptions of global societies. His books include Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science (Cambridge, 2015) and The Kingdom of Darkness (Cambridge, 2022). He has just completed a trade book on the history of the humanities and the sciences from ancient Mesopotamia to 1700, arguing for a model of intellectual change that prioritises educational institutions. In 2024, he delivered Oxford's Dacre Lecture, on ’The Origins of Modern Eurocentrism’. 

Previous winners of the Prize include Peter Brown, also of All Souls. 

To learn more about Dmitri’s work, please visit www.dmitrilevitin.com.