2023 — Sarah Margaret Pittman (English), University of Mississippi
Honorable Mention: Dana Aicha Shabaan (English), Texas Christian University
2022 — Grace Franklin (English), University of Southern California
Honorable Mention: Holly Dayton (History), Northwestern University
2021 — Meghna Sapui (English), University of Florida
Honorable Mention: Maddison McGann (English), University of Iowa
2020 — Menglu Gao (English), Northwestern University
Honorable Mention: Claire Arnold (History), Northwestern University
2019 — Lindsay Wells (Art History), University of Wisconsin–Madison
Honorable Mention: Avigail Moss (Art History), University of Southern California; Kate Nesbit (English), University of Iowa
2018 — Victoria Wiet (English), Columbia University
2017 — Amanda Shubert (English), University of Chicago
Honorable Mention: Shannon Draucker (English), Boston University
2016 — Doreen Thierauf (English), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Honorable Mention: Martha J. Groppo (History), Princeton University
2015 — Erin Johnson-Hill (Music), Yale University
2014 — Caitlin Silberman (Art History), University of Wisconsin–Madison
Honorable Mention: Ruth M. McAdams (English), University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
2013 — Erin Nested (English), University of Chicago
2012 — Winter Jade Werner (English), Northwestern University
2011 — Anna Stenson (English), University of Iowa
2010 — Karen Laird (English), University of Missouri–Columbia
2009 — Joseph Steubenrauch (History), Indiana University
2008 — Kevin Morrison (English), Rice University
2007 — Christopher Ferguson (History), Indiana University
2006 — Danielle L. Coriale (English), Brandeis University
2005 — Robert Bell (English), McMaster University
2004 — Anna Henchman (English), Harvard University
2003 — Debra Gettelman (English), Harvard University
2002 — Narisara Murray (History & Philosophy of Social Science), Indiana University
2001 — Amy Woodson-Boulton (History), UCLA
2000 — Elizabeth MacLeod Walls (English), Texas Christian University
1999 — Kristin Brandser (English), University of Iowa
1998 — Lydia Murdoch (History), Indiana University
1997 — Nadja Durbach (History), Johns Hopkins University
1996 — Susan Paton Pyecraft (History), Central Michigan University
1995 — William R. McKelvey (English), University of Virginia
1994 — Brenda J. Assael (History), University of Toronto
1993 — Martha Stoddard Holmes (English), University of Colorado
1992 — Anne Helmreich (Art History), Northwestern University
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