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, and Sir Brian Urquhart. 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 2007:

• Andrew H. Cohn (Treasurer)
  Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, LLP
  
• Jill Ker Conway (Emerita)
  Associate, STS Program MIT; former President Smith College
  
• Marshall Goldman
  Associate Director, Russian Research Center, Harvard
  
• Raymond Grew
  Emeritus Professor of History, U. of Michigan
  
• 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
  Dean, 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)
  Emeritus Professor of History, M.I.T.
  
• 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
  Professor of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
• Arthur Singer
  Vice President Emeritus, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  
• Peter N. Stearns (President)
  Provost, George Mason University
  
• Crocker Snow, Jr.
  Editor-in-Chief, World Times, Inc.
• Janet Vaillant
  Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University
• Graham Wilson
  Professor of Politcal Science, Boston University
  

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