Meet The
Toynbee Prize Team
Executive Board
Glenda Sluga
President
Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute and President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. A leading scholar of international and global history, her work explores international order, capitalism, globalization, nationalism, gender, and peacemaking. She is the author of The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon and leads major research on twentieth-century international economic thinking and the complex history of globalization. She is also an Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Heidi J.S. Tworek
Vice President
Heidi J.S. Tworek is Vice President of the Toynbee Prize Foundation and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, where she holds a Canada Research Chair and directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. A leading scholar of media, communications, and international history, her work examines how new communications technologies have shaped democracy, governance, health communication, and global public life. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of Global History and coordinates the United Nations History Project. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.
Andrew Cohn
Secretary-Treasurer
Andrew Cohn is Secretary-Treasurer of the Toynbee Prize Foundation and has had a long career spanning law, energy, public service, and education. As a senior partner at WilmerHale, his work focused on real estate, energy, and environmental law, and he later served as President and CEO of the Longwood Medical Energy Collaborative. Throughout his career, he has also been deeply involved in public service, with a particular interest in expanding access to legal assistance and supporting educational initiatives in the Boston community. His academic background includes a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, and a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Poorvi Bellur
Executive Director
Poorvi Bellur is a doctoral candidate studying global anticolonial solidarities and conceptions of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on British Empire in South Asia and Egypt. Her research broadly deals with the construct of political and cultural “solidarity” in the context of the Global South, and the modern historical genealogy of the concept. She is interested in exploring archives of press, literature and performance in order to broaden current scholarship on global anticolonial networks beyond tracing political elites in favour of an understanding of global intellectual histories from below.
Trustees
Nicole CuUjieng Aboitiz
University of Cambridge
Jeremy Adelman
Princeton University
Seema Alavi
Ashoka University
David Armitage
Harvard University
Tomohito Baji
University of Tokyo
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
Emily Greble
Vanderbilt University
Jie-Hyun Lim
Sogang University
Darrin McMahon
Dartmouth College
Manoranjan Mohanty
University of Delhi
Timothy Nunan
University of Regensburg
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
European University Institute
Peter N. Stearns
George Mason University
Heidi J. S. Tworek
University of British Columbia
Editors-at-Large
Edward Jones Corredera
Max Planck Institute
Tathagata Dutta
Tufts University
Arina Federova
European University Institute
Paroma Raya Ghose
Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History
Mirek Tobiáš Hošman
University of Bologna
Henry Jacob
Yale University
Salvador Lima
European University Institute
Asensio Robles Lopez
European University Institute
Daniel LoPreto
Stanford University Press
Carlos Morado Vazquez
University of Chicago