We congratulate Professor Kristina Richardson on winning the 2022 Dan David Prize!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz8wQJvvHLU

Watch the announcement here: https://dandavidprize.org/2022-dan-david-prize-announcement/ .

Dr. Kristina Richardson is a historian of the medieval Islamic world and the Roma. Her investigation of Arabic manuscripts highlights the importance of understanding the lives of non-elites and marginalized groups when seeking to gain a complete view of a society as a whole. Full biography here.

The Dan David Prize is the largest history prize in the world. Laureates are awarded $300,000 in recognition for “outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.” In her case, this award comes in recognition of her recently published book Roma in the Medieval Islamic World: Literacy, Culture and Migration, which outlines a medieval history of Roma and other traveling groups and argues that they were the missing link between medieval Asian and European print, bringing print to Europe in the 15^th century, decades before Gutenberg invented his press.

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