2009
Laura D’Amore: “Supermom: Feminism, Motherhood, and the Superheroine.” (Jessica Sewell)
Charlotte Emans Moore: “Art as Text, War as Context: The Art Gallery of the Metropolitan Fair, New York City’s Artistic Community, and the Civil War.” (Patricia Hills)
2008
Rebekah Burgess: “Collecting Agency: Reversing the Camera’s Gaze in Early Twentieth-Century Lowell, Massachusetts.” (Kim Sichel)
Hannah Carlson: “Pockets, Possessions, and the Ordering of Things.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Emily Murphy: “‘To Keep Our Trading For Our Livelihood’: The Derby Family of Salem, Massachusetts, and Their Rise to Power in the British Atlantic World.” (Jon Roberts)
2007
Abigail Carroll: “‘Colonial Custard’ and ‘Pilgrim Soup’: Culinary Nationalism and the Colonial Revival.”(Jessica Sewell)
Desiree Garcia: “‘There’s No Place Like Home’: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900-1950.” (Marilyn Halter)
Stephen Hodin: “Jefferson’s Ghost: Slavery, Machinery, and the Haunting of the Literary Imagination in Antebellum America.” (Susan Mizruchi)
Aaron Lecklider: “Brainpower: Intelligence in American Culture from Einstein to the Egghead.” (Bruce Schulman)
Katherine Stebbins-McCaffrey: “Reading Glasses: American Spectacles in the Age of Franklin.”(Jessica Sewell)
2006
Laura Driemeyer: “Rising from the Ashes: The Transformation of 19th Century Building Culture in Charlestown, MA.” (Keith Morgan)
Ella Howard: “Skid Row: Homelessness on the Bowery in the Twentieth Century.” (Bruce Schulman)
Karin Goldstein: “From Pilgrims to Poverty: Biography of an Urban Renewal Neighborhood in Plymouth, Massachusetts.” (Bruce Schulman)
Johnny Lew: “Travels in a World-Economy: Varieties of Subjectivity in Travel Writing, 1492-1666.”(Susan Mizruchi)
Kavita Ramdya: “Bollywood Weddings: Accruing Symbolic Ethnic Capital in Second-Generation Indian-American Hindu Matrimonials.” (Stephen Prothero)
Paul Schmitz: “D’Agostino Supermarkets, from Pushcart to Product: Family and Ethnicity as Cultural Currency.” (Marilyn Halter)
2005
Elif S. Armbruster: “Reading in Three Dimensions: Domestic Architecture and American Authorship from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Edith Wharton.” (Susan Mizruchi)
John Tessitore: “Whitmania: The Poetics of Free Religion.” (Susan Mizruchi)
2004
Brian Carso: “‘Whom Can We Trust Now?’: The Meaning of Treason in the United States, from the Revolution through the Civil War.” (Gerald Leonard)
Diane Jacobsohn: “Boston’s ‘Three-Decker Menace’: The Buildings, the Builders, and the Dwellers, 1870-1930.” (Richard Candee)
Bradley Queen: “Conservatism and the Logic of American Consumer Democracy, 1938-1976.”(Marilyn Halter)
Janine Skerry: “Silver at Harvard College from its Founding to the Revolution.” (Bruce Schulman)
2003
Elysa Engelman: “’The Face that Haunts Me Ever’: Consumers, Retailers, Critics, and the Branded Personality of Lydia E. Pinkham.” (Bruce Schulman)
Kathleen Lawrence: “Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its Legacy: Margaret Fuller, William Wetmore Story, and Henry James.” (Susan Mizruchi)
2002
Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello: “Bonds of Fellowship: Imagining, Building, and Negotiating in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900-1920.” (Bruce Schulman)
2001
Kerry Dean Carso: “Reading the Gothic: American Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature, 1800-1850.”
Paul S. D’Ambrosio: “Ralph Fasanella (1914-1917) The Making of a Working Class Artist.” (Patricia Hills)
Thomas Andrew Denenberg: “Consumed by the Past: Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America.” (Richard Candee)
Jennifer R. Green: “Books and Bayonets: Class and Culture in Antebellum Military Academies.” (Nina Silber)
Laura Johnson: “Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925.” (John Matthews)
2000
Bradford Martin: “‘The Theatre is in the Street’: Art and Cultural Groups in the 1960s.” (Bruce Schulman)
Ronald J. Miller: “The Free School Movement, 1967-1972: A Study of Countercultural Ideology.” (Bruce Schulman)
Jonathon Vogels: “Outrageous Acts of Faith: The Films of Albert and David Maysles, 1982-1986.”(Bruce Schulman)
Bryan Waterman: “The Friendly Club of New York City: Industries Of Knowledge in the Early Republic.”(Susan Mizruchi)