Dr. Max Bergholz wins the world’s largest history award, valued at $300,000 (USD)!

Concordia history professor Max Bergholz is one of nine recipients of the 2026 Dan David Prize, an international award recognizing leading scholarship on the human past and the world’s largest prize in the field of history.

Each laureate receives $300,000 USD in recognition of outstanding contributions to historical research. The selection committee lauded Bergholz’s original and fundamental insight into the history of intercommunal violence and warfare in the Balkans and his use of microhistory to decode a specific historical situation in ways that shed light on comparable situations around the world.

Hear directly from Dr. Bergholz in his recent interview on the CBC podcast, Let’s Go with Sabrina Marandola.

Read the full Concordia news article and the press release from the Dan David Foundation.

Congratulations, Max!!