Laureates Year Image Laureate(s) Country Language(s) Citation Field(s) 2004 75px (b. 1941) Bulgarian and French "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" philosophy of language, semiotics, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism 2005 75px (b. 1929) German "for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy" epistemology, social theory political theory, philosophy of law, Rationalization, pragmatics, pragmatism 2006 75px (1923–2010) Polish, English, and Hebrew "for developing comparative knowledge of exceptional quality and originality concerning social change and modernization, and concerning relations between culture, belief systems and political institutions" social anthropology, social history, political science 2007 75px (1931–2013) English "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" social justice, legal theory, political philosophy 2008 75px (b. 1934) English "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 postmodernism, hermeneutics, cultural studies, dialectical method, history 2009 75px (b. 1936) English "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" philosophy of science, philosophy of statistics 2010 75px (b. 1928) English and French for "connecting early modern Europe with new areas of comparative history, exploring cultural, geographical and religious interchange" social history, cultural history, social anthropology, ethnography, literary theory 2011 75px (b. 1941) 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" social history, hermeneutics, historiography 2012 75px (b. 1942) Spanish and English for shaping "our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society" communication studies, organization studies, network society, urban sociology, sociology of culture, political economy 2013 75px (b. 1947) French for having "undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity, and [having] challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between modern and pre-modern, nature and society, human and non-human"Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize , Holberg Prize postmodernism, social constructionism, actor–network theory, metaphysics, social anthropology 2014 75px (b. 1940) English for having "reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiyya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology" oriental studies, history of religion 2015 75px (b. 1946) English for her "analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place." mythography, feminism, oral tradition 2016 75px (b. 1943) English for being "one of the most important Shakespeare scholars of his generation" new historicism, renaissance studies, new criticism 2017 75px (b. 1941) English for "her influential role in ethical and political philosophy" political philosophy, ethics 2018 Cass Sunstein (2008)|75px (b. 1954) English for having "reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the modern regulatory state and constitutional law." legal theory, constitutional law, environmental law, administrative law, behavioral economics, social theory 2019 75px (b. 1956) English "for his contributions to critical race studies, post-colonialism and related fields" cultural politics, cultural history, social anthropology 2020 Griselda Pollock (2019) |75px (b. 1949) English "for her groundbreaking contributions to feminist art history and cultural studies." feminist theory, feminism, art history, gender studies2021 75px (b. 1947) English "for her groundbreaking contribution to research in philosophy, law and related fields." liberal theory, political philosophy, feminism, ethics, social liberalism
Laureates Year Image Laureate(s) Country Language(s) Citation Field(s) 2004 75px (b. 1941) Bulgarian and French "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" philosophy of language, semiotics, literary criticism, psychoanalysis, feminism 2005 75px (b. 1929) German "for developing path-breaking theories of discourse and communicative action and thereby providing new perspectives on law and democracy" epistemology, social theory political theory, philosophy of law, Rationalization, pragmatics, pragmatism 2006 75px (1923–2010) Polish, English, and Hebrew "for developing comparative knowledge of exceptional quality and originality concerning social change and modernization, and concerning relations between culture, belief systems and political institutions" social anthropology, social history, political science 2007 75px (1931–2013) English "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" social justice, legal theory, political philosophy 2008 75px (b. 1934) English "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 postmodernism, hermeneutics, cultural studies, dialectical method, history 2009 75px (b. 1936) English "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" philosophy of science, philosophy of statistics 2010 75px (b. 1928) English and French for "connecting early modern Europe with new areas of comparative history, exploring cultural, geographical and religious interchange" social history, cultural history, social anthropology, ethnography, literary theory 2011 75px (b. 1941) 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" social history, hermeneutics, historiography 2012 75px (b. 1942) Spanish and English for shaping "our understanding of the political dynamics of urban and global economies in the network society" communication studies, organization studies, network society, urban sociology, sociology of culture, political economy 2013 75px (b. 1947) French for having "undertaken an ambitious analysis and reinterpretation of modernity, and [having] challenged fundamental concepts such as the distinction between modern and pre-modern, nature and society, human and non-human"Bruno Latour wins the 2013 Holberg Prize , Holberg Prize postmodernism, social constructionism, actor–network theory, metaphysics, social anthropology 2014 75px (b. 1940) English for having "reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiyya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology" oriental studies, history of religion 2015 75px (b. 1946) English for her "analysis of stories and myths and how they reflect their time and place." mythography, feminism, oral tradition 2016 75px (b. 1943) English for being "one of the most important Shakespeare scholars of his generation" new historicism, Renaissance studies, New Criticism 2017 75px (b. 1941) English for "her influential role in ethical and political philosophy" political philosophy, ethics 2018 Cass Sunstein (2008)|75px (b. 1954) English for having "reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the modern regulatory state and constitutional law." legal theory, constitutional law, environmental law, administrative law, behavioral economics, social theory 2019 75px (b. 1956) English "for his contributions to critical race studies, post-colonialism and related fields" cultural politics, cultural history, social anthropology 2020 Griselda Pollock (2019) |75px (b. 1949) English "for her groundbreaking contributions to feminist art history and cultural studies." feminist theory, feminism, art history, gender studies2021 75px (b. 1947) English "for her groundbreaking contribution to research in philosophy, law and related fields." liberal theory, political philosophy, feminism, ethics, social liberalism
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renaissance studies, new criticism
Renaissance studies, New Criticism