History Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam at the University of California, Los Angeles, has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his contributions to his field, reports the News India Times.
The Dan David Prize “individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service, and business, that have made and continue to make an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation,” according to the organization’s website. The professor will split the $1 million dollar prize with Kenneth Pomeranz, a renowned historian who is a professor at the University of Chicago.
Subrahmanyam has written 16 books and edited nearly that many, according to the UCLA Newsroom. The newsroom also remarks that his work, “steeped as it is in Western and non-Western historiography, conveys a fuller, more-rounded history than most other scholars have been able to provide.”
“I greatly appreciate the international recognition afforded to my scholarship, which is a great encouragement,” Subrahmanyam said. “When I came to UCLA in 2004, I was proud to join a history department with some great and world-famous figures in it, and I have tried to live up to their example. The Dan David Prize gives me a fresh wind in my sails, to push on with the next set of projects I have in mind: whether on global historiography, Islamic history or the enigmatic figure of Michel de Montaigne.”
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