Winner Announcement: 2025-26 Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop

We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year's Toynbee Prize Foundation First Book Workshop Competition is Daniel Quiroga Villamarín.

Quiroga-Villamarín is currently a Hauser/Remarque Global Fellow in International Law and European History at New York University (USA). He also serves as the managing editor of the Journal of the History of International Law. He obtained his PhD in International Law with a minor in International History & Politics (2024) —with the distinction summa cum laude avec les félicitations du jury (SLF)— from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (IHEID Geneva, Switzerland). He was awarded a three-year Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Doc.CH grant for this purpose. After NYU, he will return to the University of Vienna (Austria) where he is pursuing his postdoctoral lecturing qualification (habilitation, in German) in Legal and Constitutional History with the support of a SNSF two-year Postdoc Mobility grant.

He is currently working on his first book manuscript, titled: "Architects of the Better World: Democracy, Law, and the Construction of International Order, 1899-1998." The project studies the intersections between the built-environment, democratic ideals, and the institutionalization of international law in the twentieth century.

The Toynbee First Book Workshop Competition aims to support early career scholars in global history at a pivotal moment in their scholarly trajectory. To this end, the Toynbee Prize Foundation (TPF) funds an annual first book manuscript/work in progress workshop with scholars specifically chosen to comment on the selected Toynbee Early Career Scholar’s project.