Dmitri Levitin

Dmitri Levitin is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford who has held positions at Cambridge, Caltech, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He has written extensively on pre-modern intellectual history, and his Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science and The Kingdom of Darkness were both Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year. In 2016 he was awarded the prestigious Leszek Kolakowski Prize for the world's leading early career historian of ideas; in 2025 the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest award for history.