Prof. Stuart MCMANUS won the Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world. The prestigious award recognises outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history. Prof. MCMANUS is the first scholar from an Asian university to win the prize since it was established in 2001.

The Dan David Prize’s committee praised Prof. MCMANUS as “a historian of the Renaissance writ large”.  Prof. MCMANUS’s scholarship addresses the spread of Renaissance Culture from a global perspective, and the links between regions that are generally studied separately, such as the Americas, West Africa and South China. Nine scholars, including Professor McManus, were awarded the prize and US$300,000 each in recognition of their achievements and to support their future endeavours.