1989
Marianne Doezema: “George Bellows and Urban America 1905-1913.” (Patricia Hills)
Joon Hoy: “The Publication and Distribution of Books Among New England Quakers, 1775-1836.” (David Hall)
Mo-Ying Lee: “A Synthesized Creation: Hu Shih and his Reconstruction of Chinese History.” (David Hall)
Susan Montgomery: “‘The Spirit of the New Idea in Artistic Handicraft’: The Ceramics of William H. Grueby.” (John Kirk)
Mary Panzer: “Romantic Origins of American Realism: Photography, Art and Letters in Philadelphia 1850-1875.” (Carl Chiarenza)
1988
Elizabeth Hurth: “In His Name: Comparative Studies in the Quest for the Historical Jesus.” (David Hall)
Kate Wittenstein: “The Heterodoxy Club and American Feminism, 1912-1930.” (David Hall)
1987
Jeffrey Halprin: “Getting Back to Work: The Revaluation of Work in Literature and Sociology 1950-1985.” (William Vance)
Elizabeth Kornhauser: “Ralph Earl: Toward an American Plain Style.” (Patricia Hills)
Komla Messan Nubukpo: “Through Their Sisters’ Eyes: The Representation of Black Men in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara.” (Millicent Bell)
1986
Terrie Dopp Aamodt: “Righteous Armies, Holy Cause, Apocalyptic Imagery and the Civil War.” (Cecilia Tichi)
Marilyn Halter: “Cape Verdean American Immigration and Patterns of Settlement, 1860-1940.” (Sam Bass Warner)
Sarah Junkin: “The Europeanization of Henry Bacon 1839-1912: American Expatriate Painter.” (Patricia Hills)
1985
Richard Cote: “The Architectural Workmen of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia.” (Abbott Cummings)
Margaret Creighton: “Private Life of Jack Tar: Sailors at Sea in the Nineteenth Century.” (James Henretta)
Jean Follett-Thompson: “The Business of Architecture: William Gibbons Preston and Architectural Professionalism in Boston during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century.” (Keith Morgan)
Robert E. Mackay: “Managing the Clerks: Office Management from the 1870s Through the Great Depression.” (Robert Bruce)
1984
Beverly Brandt: “‘Mutually Helpful Relations’: Architects, Craftsmen, and the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston 1897-1917.” (Jonathan Fairbanks)
Carol Kiler Doreski: “All the Conditions of Existence: A Study of Elizabeth Bishop.” (Helen Vendler)
Jan Seidler Ramirez: “A Critical Reappraisal of the Career of William Wetmore Story (1819-1895): American Sculptor and Man of Letters.” (David Hall)
Edward Zimmer: “The Architectural Career of Alexander Parris, 1780-1852.” (Keith Morgan)
Philip Zimmerman: “Ecclesiastical Architecture in the Reformed Tradition in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, 1790-1860.” (Abbott Cummings)
1983
Martin Blatt: “Anarchism of Ezra Heywood 1829-1893: Abolition, Labor Reform, and Free Love.” (Robert Bruce)
Edward S. Cooke, Jr.: “Rural Artisanal Culture: The Pre-Industrial Joiners of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut, 1760-1820.” (James Henretta)
James Garvin: “The Architecture of the Piscataqua Region of New Hampshire and Maine, 1715-1915.” (Abbott Cummings)
Janet Golden: “From Breast to Bottle: The End of Wet Nursing in Boston 1867 – 1927.” (Diana Long Holl)
Sheila Hones: “Geography, Literature, and the Figurative Landscape.” (William Vance)
Susan Walton: “To Preserve the Faith: Catholic Charities in Boston, 1870-1930” (Robert Bushman)
Gerald Ward: “Silver and Society in Salem, MA, 1630-1820: A Case Study of the Consumer and the Craft.” (Abbott Cummings)
1982
Marlou Belyea: “The Joy Ride and the Silver Screen: Commercial Leisure, Delinquency and Play Reform in Los Angeles, 1900-1980.” (Sam Bass Warner)
William Doreski: “Vision and Seeing in Robert Lowell’s Later Poetry.” (Helen Vendler)
Judithea Douglas-Speidel: “The Theater and Early Romanticism in America.” (William Vance)
Barbara Hobson: “Sex in the Marketplace: Prostitution in an American City, Boston, 1820-1880.” (Aileen Kratidor)
Susan Reverby: “‘The Nursing Disorder’: A Critical History of the Hospital-Nursing Relationship, 1861-1945.” (Sam Bass Warner)
Barbara Ward: “The Craftsman in a Changing Society: Boston Goldsmiths, 1690-1730.” (Abbott Cummings)
1981
Maren Stange: “American Documentary Photography: The Mode and Its Style 1900-1943.” (Carl Chiarenza)
Louise Stevenson: “Scholarly Means to Evangelical Ends: The New Haven Scholars 1840-1890.” (David Hall)
Elizabeth Rinehardt: “In the Name of the Family: Suburbanization and the Rural Domestic in Lexington MA, 1875-1915.” (James Henretta)
Trevor Fairbrother: “John Singer Sargent and America.” (Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.)
Charles Hammond: “Where the Arts and the Virtues Unite: Country Life near Boston, 1637-1864.” (Richard Candee)
1980
Charles Hambrick-Stowe: “The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England.” (David Hall)
Edith Tonelli: “The Massachusetts Federal Art Project: A Case Study in Government Support for Art.” (Patricia Hills)
Lynn Weiner: “From the Working Girl to the Working Mother: The Debate over Women, Work, and Morality in the US 1820-1980.” (Sam Bass Warner)