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March 24, 2025
The Toynbee Prize Foundation’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that the 2025 recipient of the Toynbee Prize is Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan...
March 5, 2025
Her book, In the Land of Marvels, was honored with the most prestigious international award for works on the history of scientific instruments.
February 28, 2025
Naina Agrawal-Hardin, who explores how the effects of climate change are being litigated globally, is among 35 U.S. scholars selected to be part of the 2025 cohort. 
February 12, 2025
Amrith, a historian who explores the intersection of human migration and global environmental history, will begin his new role on March 1.
February 7, 2025
Nakhimovsky, Associate Professor of History and Humanities, discusses the surprising history of a nineteenth-century political project.
January 30, 2025
In a Q&A, Yale’s Daniel Magaziner discusses his new book on South African photographer Omar Badsha, whose images captured the human cost of apartheid.
January 13, 2025
The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.