Named after Arnold J.Toynbee, the Toynbee Prize Foundation was chartered in 1987 “to contribute to the development of the social sciences, as defined from a broad historical view of human society and of human and social problems.” The Foundation seeks to promote scholarly engagement with global history through several activities.
Foremost among these is the Toynbee Prize, an award granted every other year to recognize outstanding work in global history. As an affiliated society of the American Historical Association, the Foundation sponsors one session at the Association’s annual meeting. In the years in which the Prize is awarded, the recipient presents a lecture. In alternate years, the Foundation sponsors a session on global history.
The Foundation, based in Massachusetts, is tax exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Officers:
- President: Dominic Sachsenmaier, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Vice President: Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College
- Secretary-Treasurer: Andrew Cohn, WilmerHale
- Executive Director: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, University of Cambridge
Current Trustees:
- Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
- David Armitage, Harvard University
- Roland Benedikter, Wroclaw University/Eurac Research Bozen-Bolzano
- Lauren Benton, Yale University
- Erica Charters, University of Oxford
- Andrew H. Cohn, WilmerHale
- David Ekbladh, Tufts University
- Selçuk Esenbel, Boğaziçi University
- Jie-Hyun Lim, Sogang University
- Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College
- Manoranjan Mohanty, University of Delhi
- Hsiung Ping-chen, University of California, Irvine
- Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
- Dominic Sachsenmaier, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Andrew Sartori, New York University
- Akita Shigeru, Osaka University
- Glenda Sluga, University of Sydney
- Peter N. Stearns, George Mason University
- Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia
Former Officers and Trustees:
- Charles Bright, University of Michigan
- Nayan Chanda, Yale University
- John Headley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Marshall Goldman, Harvard University
- Raymond Grew, University of Michigan
- Richard M. Hunt, Harvard University
- Akira Iriye, Harvard University
- Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Philip S. Khoury, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Barbara Metcalf, University of California, Davis
- Karl E. Meyer, Independent Scholar
- Timothy Nunan, Freie Universität Berlin
- Wolf Schafer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Strobe Talbott, The Brookings Institution
Editors-at-Large
- Mahia Bashir, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Antoney Bell, McGill University
- Natalie Behrends, Harvard University
- Collin Bernard, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Mahdi Chowdhury, University of Cambridge
- Martin Crevier, University of Cambridge
- Kristie Flannery, University of British Columbia
- Fernando Gomez Herrero, Birkbeck, University of London
- Henry Jacob, University of Cambridge
- Hayley Keon, University of Hong Kong
- Rustam Khan, University of Hong Kong
- Julia Klimova, University College London
- Tiger Zhifu Li, University of Sydney
- Daniel LoPreto, Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- Joshua Milstein, Freie University of Berlin
- Zaib un Nisa Aziz, Yale University
- Sean Phillips, University of Oxford
- Daniel Quiroga Villamarin, The Graduate Institute Geneva
- Marc Reyes, University of Connecticut
- Joel van de Sande, Columbia University
- Joseph Satish, University of Hyderabad
- Sam de Schutter, Leiden University
- Liat Spiro, College of the Holy Cross
- Nicholas Michael C. Sy, University of the Philippines Diliman
- Christopher Szabla, University of Hong Kong