Research Projects

On the basis of the International Balzan Foundation Statute promulgated in 2001, Balzan Prizewinners must apportion half of the value of the Prize to the financing of research projects involving a new generation of young researchers.

Restorative Justice
John Braithwaite
Australia
2024
Evolution of Humankind: Paleoanthropology
Jean-Jacques Hublin
France
2023
World Literature
David Damrosch
USA
2023
Ethnomusicology
Philip V. Bohlman
USA
2022
Moral Philosophy
Martha C. Nussbaum
USA
2022
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Saul Friedländer
Israel/USA
2021
Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati
Italy and USA
2021
Environmental Challenges: Responses from the Social Sciences and the Humanities
Joan Martínez Alier
Spain
2020
Islamic Studies
Michael Cook
USA/UK
2019
Film Studies
Jacques Aumont
France
2019
Social Anthropology
Marilyn Strathern
UK
2018
Global History
Jürgen Osterhammel
Germany
2018
Gender Studies
Bina Agarwal
UK/India
2017
Collective Memory
Aleida and Jan Assmann
Germany
2017
Comparative Literature
Piero Boitani
Italy
2016
International Relations: History and Theory
Robert O. Keohane
USA
2016
Economic History
Joel Mokyr
USA/Israel
2015
History of European Art
Hans Belting
Germany
2015
Classical Archaeology
Mario Torelli
Italy
2014
Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
Ian Hacking
Canada
2014
Sociology
Manuel Castells
USA/Catalonia
2013
Medieval History
André Vauchez
France
2013
Musicology
Reinhard Strohm
UK/Germany
2012
Jurisprudence
Ronald Dworkin
USA
2012
Ancient History (The Graeco-Roman World)
Peter Brown
USA/Ireland
2011
Enlightenment Studies
Bronislaw Baczko
Switzerland/Poland
2011
The History of Theatre in All Its Aspects
Manfred Brauneck
Germany
2010
European History (1400-1700)
Carlo Ginzburg
Italy
2010
History of Science
Paolo Rossi Monti
Italy
2009
Literature since 1500
Terence Cave
UK
2009
Visual Arts since 1700
Maurizio Calvesi
Italy
2008
Moral Philosophy
Thomas Nagel
USA/Serbia
2008
International Law since 1945
Rosalyn Higgins
UK
2007
European Literature (1000-1500)
Michel Zink
France
2007
Political Thought: History and Theory
Quentin Skinner
UK
2006
The History of Western Music since 1600
Ludwig Finscher
Germany
2006
Cultural History of Cities since the Beginning of the 16th Century
Peter Hall
UK
2005
History of the Art of Asia
Lothar Ledderose
Germany
2005
Islamic World from the End of the 19th to the End of the 20th Century
Nikki Ragozin Keddie
USA
2004
Prehistoric Archaeology
Colin Renfrew
UK
2004
European History since 1900
Eric Hobsbawm
UK
2003
Social Psychology
Serge Moscovici
France/Romania
2003
Sociology
Dominique Schnapper
France
2002
History of the Humanities
Anthony Grafton
USA
2002
History of Architecture
James Sloss Ackerman
USA
2001
Literary History and Criticism (post 1500)
Marc Fumaroli
France
2001
Nanoporous Materials for Environmental Applications
Omar M. Yaghi
USA
2024
Biological Mechanisms of Ageing
Michael N. Hall
Switzerland
2024
High resolution images: from planetary to cosmic objects
Heino Falcke
The Netherlands/Germany
2023
Evolution of Humankind: Ancient DNA and Human Evolution
Eske Willerslev
Denmark
2023
Glaciation and Ice Sheet Dynamics
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen and Johannes (Hans) Oerlemans
Denmark and The Netherlands
2022
Biomaterials for Nanomedicine and Tissue Engineering
Robert Langer
USA
2022
Gravitation: Physical and Astrophysical Aspects
Alessandra Buonanno and Thibault Damour
Italy/USA and France
2021
Microbiome in Health and Disease
Jeffrey I. Gordon
USA
2021
Earth System Dynamics
Susan Trumbore
Germany/USA
2020
Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy<br />
Jean-Marie Tarascon
France
2020
Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Luigi Ambrosio
Italy
2019
Pathophysiology of Respiration: From Basic Sciences to the Bedside
Research Group von Mutius, Rabe, Seeger, Welte – German Center for Lung Research DZL
Germany
2019
Chemical Ecology
Eva Kondorosi
Hungary / France
2018
Fluid Dynamics
Detlef Lohse
The Netherlands/Germany
2018
Immunological Approaches in Cancer Therapy
James P. Allison and Robert D. Schreiber
USA
2017
The Sun’s Planetary System and Exoplanets
Michaël Gillon
Belgium
2017
Applied Photonics
Federico Capasso
USA/Italy
2016
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Reinhard Jahn
Germany
2016
Astroparticle Physics
Francis Halzen
USA/Belgium
2015
Oceanography
David Karl
USA
2015
Mathematics (Pure/Applied)
Dennis Sullivan
USA
2014
Basic/Applied Plant Ecology
David Tilman
USA
2014
Infectious Diseases: Basic and Clinical Aspects
Pascale Cossart
France
2013
Quantum Information Processing and Communication
Alain Aspect
France
2013
Solid Earth Sciences, with Emphasis on Interdisciplinary Research
Kurt Lambeck
Australia/The Netherlands
2012
Epigenetics
David Baulcombe
UK
2012
The Early Universe (From the Planck Time to the First Galaxies)
Joseph Silk
UK/USA
2011
Theoretical Biology or Bioinformatics
Russell Lande
UK/USA
2011
Stem Cells: Biology and Potential Applications
Shinya Yamanaka
Japan
2010
Mathematics (Pure and Applied)
Jacob Palis
Brazil
2010
Science of New Materials
Michael Grätzel
Switzerland/Germany
2009
Cognitive Neurosciences
Brenda Milner
Canada/UK
2009
Science of Climate Change
Wallace Broecker
USA
2008
Preventive Medicine, Including Vaccination
Ian Frazer
Australia/UK
2008
Nanoscience
Sumio Iijima
Japan
2007
Innate Immunity
Bruce Beutler and Jules Hoffmann
USA - France/Luxembourg
2007
Observational Astronomy and Astrophysics
Paolo de Bernardis and Andrew Lange
Italy - USA
2006
Plant Molecular Genetics
Elliot Meyerowitz and Christopher Somerville
USA - USA/Canada
2006
Mineral Physics
Russell Hemley and Ho-Kwang Mao
USA - USA/China
2005
Population Biology
Peter and Rosemary Grant
USA/UK
2005
Epidemiology
Michael Marmot
UK
2004
Mathematics
Pierre Deligne
USA/Belgium
2004
Infrared Astronomy
Reinhard Genzel
Germany
2003
Genetics and Evolution
Wen-Hsiung Li
USA/Taiwan
2003
Developmental Biology
Walter Gehring
Switzerland
2002
Geology
Xavier Le Pichon
France
2002
Cognitive Neurosciences
Jean-Pierre Changeux
France
2001
Climatology
Claude Lorius
France
2001

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