For generations, scholars argued that white women were rarely involved in the active buying and selling of Black people. 2023 Dan David Prize winner Stephanie Jones-Rogers' research found that female enslavers were ubiquitous.

Rachel L. Swarns, The New York Times

2022 Dan David Prize winner Kristina Richardson explores the history of slavery and racial capitalism outside of the Transatlantic slave trade and the importance of research on often understudied groups and histories.

Juan Chang, The Bowdoin Orient

2024 Dan David Prize winner Keisha N. Blain and co-author Amy Sommers look back at the history of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and hypothesize how it might inform Vice President Kamala Harris's possible presidency.

Keisha N. Blain and Amy Sommers, Foreign Policy Magazine