Toynbee Prize

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. Among its activities, the Foundation has awarded the Toynbee Prize for social scientists who have made significant academic and public contributions to humanity. Among its past recipients are Raymond Aron, Lord Kenneth Clark, Sir Ralf Dahrendorf, Natalie Zemon Davis, Albert Hirschman, George Kennan, Bruce Mazlish, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson, Sir Brian Urquhart, and William McNeill. The Foundation also undertakes to foster the social sciences, historically conceived, by means of various initiatives. Prime among these, so far, has been "The New Global History" project, as demonstrated by this web site.

Toynbee Prize Foundation Trustees, as of October 2008:

• Andrew H. Cohn (Treasurer)
  Andrew Cohn is a partner in the Real Estate Department of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. He is an associate member of the Environmental Department and the Bankruptcy and Commercial Department. He serves on the Real Estate Capital Management Committee and is co-chair of the firm's Energy Group. He is a former chair and member of the Executive Committee and a former chair of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Cohn was a fellow at the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, a Russell Sage Foundation fellow in law and social science, a teaching fellow at Harvard University and a research fellow at University College in Nairobi, Kenya.
  
• Jill Ker Conway (Emerita)
  Associate, STS Program MIT; former President Smith College
  
• Marshall Goldman
  Associate Director, Russian Research Center, Harvard
  
• Raymond Grew
  Raymond Grew is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Michigan. The author of books and articles on the modern history of France and Italy, he was editor of the international quarterly, Comparative Studies in Society and History from 1973 to 1997, remains on its board, and has written often on the use of historical comparison. A participant in the global history initiative almost from its inception, his related publications include his essay in Mazlish and Buultjens, eds., Conceptualizing Global History; a review essay on World Historians and Their Goals in History and Theory, 34:4 (1995); "Seeking the Cultural Context of Fundamentalisms," in Martin Marty, ed., Religion, Ethnicity, and Self-Identity: Nations in Transition (1997); "Comparing Modern Japan: Are There More Comparisons to Make," forthcoming in 2002; and two volumes he edited: Food in Global History (1999) and, with André Burguière, The Construction of Minorities (2001).
  
• Richard Hunt
  University Marshall Emeritus, Harvard
  
• Akira Iriye
  Emeritus Professor of History, Harvard
  
• Mark Juergensmeyer
  Director, Center for Global and International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
  
• Samer Khanachet
  President, United Gulf Management, Inc.
  
• Philip Khoury
  Associate Provost, School of Hum., Arts, and Social Sciences, M.I.T.
  
• Alice L. Mattice
  Director for Trade and Environmental Policy Planning, U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President
  
• Bruce Mazlish (Vice-President)
  Bruce Mazlish, Professor of History Emeritus, MIT, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Mazlish's areas of interest and expertise are Western intellectual and cultural history, with a special nod to history of science and technology, the culture of capitalism, and history of the social sciences. He is also an authority in the interdisciplinary field of psychohistory as well as historical methodology
  
• Priscilla McMillan
  Research Affiliate, Russian Research Center, Harvard
  
• Karl Meyer
  Editor, World Policy Journal
  
• Robert Monks
  President, LENS Investment Management, Inc.
  
• Peter Osnos
  Publisher, Public Affairs Books
  
• Harriet Ritvo
  Professor of History, M.I.T.
• Dominic Sachsenmaier
  Professor of History, Duke University
  
• James Sebenius
  Professor, Harvard Business School
  (Former Vice President, the Blackstone Group)
  
• Wolf Schäfer
  Wolf Schäfer, Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has authored books and articles on social history, history of technoscience, and global history. From the clashing of educated and uneducated thinking in social movements to the cross-fertilization of science and technology in technoscientific networks, he has combined specialized historical studies with a theoretical interest in the writing of history. His approach to contemporary history is driven by the notion that connections between human, social, and natural scientific disciplines are of vital importance in a time of global intercourse between humans and Earth.
• Arthur Singer
  Vice President Emeritus, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  
• Peter N. Stearns (President)
  Peter N. Stearns was named Provost of George Mason University effective January 1, 2000. He also regularly teaches courses in world history and social history. Stearns received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and previously attended Harvard College. He has taught at Harvard, at the University of Chicago, at Rutgers University (where he chaired the New Brunswick History Department), and Carnegie Mellon University, where he was Heinz Professor of History. He served as Dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1992 to 2000. Past Vice President of the American Historical Association, in charge of the Teaching Division. Stearns currently serves as chair of the Advanced Placement World History committee. He founded and continues to serve as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social History.
  
• Crocker Snow, Jr.
  Editor-in-Chief, World Times, Inc.
• Janet Vaillant
  Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
• Graham Wilson
  Professor of Political Science, Boston University
  

The Foundation, based in Massachusetts, is tax exempt under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.