2024 Stephanie Sparling Williams, Brooklyn Museum
Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art
2023 Adriana Zavala, Tufts University
Afrolatinx Art: Radical Unsettling
2022 Huey Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
In Stereo: Modern Art and the Black Anthological
2021 Denise Murrell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reconsidering the Harlem Renaissance: Context and Legacy
2019 Wendy Bellion, University of Delaware
Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
2018: Michael Leja, University of Pennsylvania
The Langenheim Brothers at Niagara Falls: Photographic Fusions and the Mass Marketing of Photography
2017: Marilyn S. Kushner, New York Historical Society
Shock, Influence, or Indifference, the 1913 Armory Show Reconsidered
2016: Rachel Z. DeLue, Princeton University
Thomas Eakin’s Music Paintings and the Problem of Picturing Sound
2015: Douglas R. Nickel, Brown University
Walker Evans and the Art of the Common Man
2014: Richard J. Powell, Duke University
Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley’s Witness to the Modern City
2013: Maurie D. McInnis, The University of Virginia
The Civil War and Slavery’s Shadow
2012: Kathleen A. Foster, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Looking into Winslow Homer’s The Life Line
2011: Sarah Burns, Indiana University, Professor Emeritus
Haunted Houses and Murder Mansions: Art and the Dark Side of American Architecture between the Wars
2010: Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University Professor Emeritus
Social Concern in Jewish American Art
2009: Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University
The Three Lives of Grant Wood’s American Gothic
2009: Martin A. Berger, University of California at Santa Cruz
Civil Rights Photography and the Politics of Race in 1960s America
2008: Thomas E. Crow, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Screen Memories in the Art of Ed Ruscha: Los Angeles as a Pop City
