Holberg International Memorial Prize

Laureates

Year	Laureate(s)	Institution	Nationality	Citation
2004	Julia Kristeva	University of Paris	Bulgarian	“for innovative explorations of questions on the intersection of language, culture and literature which inspired research across the humanities and the social sciences throughout the world and have also had a significant impact on feminist theory”
2005	Jürgen Habermas	University of Frankfurt	German	“for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy”
2006	Shmuel Eisenstadt	Hebrew University in Jerusalem	Israeli	“for developing comparative knowledge of exceptional quality and originality concerning social change and modernization, and concerning relations between culture, belief systems and political institutions.”
2007	Ronald Dworkin	New York University University College London	American	“for developing an original and highly influential legal theory grounding law in morality, characterized by a unique ability to tie together abstract philosophical ideas and arguments with concrete everyday concerns in law, morals, and politics.”
2008	Fredric Jameson	Duke University	American	“for outstanding contributions to the understanding of the relation between social formations and cultural forms in a project he himself describes as the "poetics of social forms".”
2009	Ian Hacking	University of Toronto	Canadian	“for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts.”
2010	Natalie Zemon Davis	University of Toronto Princeton University	Canadian/ American	“for being one of the most creative historians writing today, an intellectual who is not hostage to any particular school of thought or politics.”
2011	Jürgen Kocka	Free University of Berlin	German	“for effecting a paradigm shift in German historiography by opening it up to related social sciences and establishing the importance of cross-national comparative approaches.”
2012	Manuel Castells	University of Southern California	Spanish	for shaping "our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society"