Previous Winners

2025

Philip Liston-Kraft (Ph.D. 2025, Germanic Languages and Literatures), Portrait of the arzet: The Doctor in German Literature of the High and Late Middle Ages, advised by Racha Kirakosian (quondam Germanic Languages and Literatures).

2024

Louis Copplestone (Ph.D. 2024, History of Art and Architecture), Monasteries, Mountains, and Mandalas: Buddhist Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Eastern India, advised by Jinah Kim (History of Art & Architecture).

2023

Henry Gruber (Ph.D. 2023, History), Wars and Rumors of War: Archaeology, Violence, and the End of Roman Spain, advised by Michael McCormick (History).

Joseph Shack (Ph.D. 2023, English/Celtic ad hoc), The Origins, Lives, and Afterlives of Early English and Welsh Gnomic Poetry, advised by Catherine McKenna (Celtic Languages and Literatures) and Daniel Donoghue (English).

2022

Juliette Calvarin (Ph.D. 2021, History of Art and Architecture), Ornamenta Sacerdotum: Marian Chasubles for Priestly Bodies in Pre-Hussite Prague, advised by Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art & Architecture)