The winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize is Camilla Townsend, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press USA). The event was broadcast live in partnership with History Hit and concluded the inaugural Cundill History Prize Festival, a two-day program of virtual events for a global audience. “2020 was never going to be an ordinary year for the Cundill History Prize,” said Antonia Maioni, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University, at the conclusion of the Cundill History Prize Festival. The Cundill History Prize is administered by McGill University in Montreal and awarded by five distinguished jurors. This led him to found the Cundill History Prize.
