The Dan David Prize awarded nine historians and archaeologists $300,000 each to support their research. The scholars have pursued research on issues including violence and historical memory in the Balkans, how medieval societies perceived and structured time, the ancient Inca road networks that influenced modern infrastructure in central Peru, and Byzantine art and culture. According to Newsday.com, the Dan David Prize is headquartered at Tel Aviv University, is given annually to mid-career scholars, honors research on the human past, and was presented to the winners at a recent gathering in Italy. One winner is Howard Chiang of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who analyzed the history of sex change in China and proposed a new paradigm for transgender history centered around geopolitics. One winner is Dagomar Degroot, an environmental historian, who focuses on [research topics].