Past Prize Recipients
| Year | Class | Prize Recipient | Collection Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4th-year | Noah Tesfaye | A Student of Black Study |
| 2023 | 4th-year | Eyshe Beirich | Sin valor commercial, or a Worthless Yiddish Library |
| 2023 | 2nd-year | Elijah Perkins | Origami: an Art of Reproduction |
| 2022 | 4th-year | William Trlak | To Stroll South America |
| 2022 | 4th-year | Gurveer Singh | Lives Lived in the Margins: A Collection of Second-hand Japanese Fiction |
| 2021 | 4th-year | Jonah Lubin | Diasporic Jewish Textual Production |
| 2021 | 2nd-year | Roberto Cohen | Tea in Theory and Practice |
| 2020 | 4th-year | Katrina Keegan | Manuscripts Don't Burn, and Reading Russian Literature Won't Burn Me |
| 2020 | 4th-year | Amanda Wong | To Read Is to Love Again: A Collection of Books on Modern Art |
| 2019 | 4th-year | Daniel Jacob Eberts | Language Learning Through the Ages |
| 2019 | 2nd-year | Samuel Barton | The Art of Information: A Beautiful, Empirical Journey of Perception and Understanding |
| 2018 | 4th-year | Anna Wood | Learning a Love for Spanish Language through Latin American Poetry |
| 2018 | 2nd-year | Clare Kemmerer | The Only Crush I Have is the Crushing Weight of My Sins (Love and Faith in Christian Literature) |
| 2017 | 4th-year | Jackson Bierfeldt | Raoul Heinrich France: The Revitalized Doctrine of a Forgotten Life |
| 2017 | 2nd-year | Billie Males, Co-winner | A Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By |
| 2017 | 2nd-year | Bryan McGuiggin, Co-winner | Aesthetic Scholarship: German Piano Music and its Outgrowths |
| 2016 | 4th-year | Samuel Puliafito, Co-winner | Lorraine Louie and the Art of Vintage Contemporaries |
| 2016 | 4th-year | Alexander Relihan, Co-winner | “The Dot and the Line”: Pen-and-Ink Illustrations, Storytelling, Music, Language |
| 2015 | 4th-year | Rose Berman, First Place | Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Pilot, Author, and Friend |
| 2015 | 4th-year | Rachel McEnroe, Second Place | Language Addiction |
| 2015 | 2nd-year | Juliet Eldred | Zines, Punk Rock, and Empowerment |
| 2014 | 4th-year | Kareem Mohammad | Works by Clamp, Four Female Manga Creators |
| 2014 | 4th-year | Mox Schults | A Library for Babel(ing): Books for Reading Aloud |
| 2014 | 2nd-year | G. Philip Crean IV | The Rise and Fall of European High Imperialism |
| 2013 | 4th-year | Drew Synan | Typography: Language Made Visible |
| 2013 | 2nd-year | Phoebe Salzman-Cohen | Ennui, Elves, and Edward Gorey: Alternative Comic Books |
| 2013 | 2nd-year | Rachel Schastok | Zines & Tramp Literature |
| 2012 | 4th-year | Andrew Stevens | Food for Thought: the History, Economics, and Politics of Agriculture |
| 2011 | 4th-year |
John Fisher, Honorable Mention |
John Berryman: His Life, Work and Influences |
| 2011 | 2nd-year | Anastasia Klimchynskaya | Alexandre Dumas: Historian and Storyteller |
| 2010 | 4th-year | Ryan Julian | The History of Mathematics |
| 2010 | 2nd-year | Jake Ransohoff | The Mirror of Heaven: Church, State, and Society in the Byzantine Empire |
| 2010 | 2nd-year | Andrew Stevens, Honorable Mention | Agriculture and Food |
| 2008 | 4th-year | Elizabeth Litchfield | A Library of Love: Challenging the Social Order One Couple (or Threesome?) at a Time |
| 2008 | 2nd-year | Elizabeth Davidson, Honorable Mention | Religion in Late Antique Egypt |
| 2008 | 2nd-year | Aaron Vanides | Into the Mists of the North: A Comparative Collection of the Medieval Germanic Tradition and its Modern Manifestation |
| 2007 | 4th-year | Donna Zuckerberg | Homer and His Students |
| 2007 | 2nd-year | Erin Wonder | Cultured Insolence: Wit in British Literature |
| 2006 | 4th-year | Quinn Anya Carey | Languages and Linguistics of the Former USSR |
| 2006 | 2nd-year | Sabahat F. Adil | From Málaga To Miyagi- Collected Wisdoms of the Seeker |
| 2005 | 4th-year | Benjamin Trofatter | INIM.MEŠ, AMATU, uddar ("Words, Words, Words"): A Collection of the Languages and Literatures of the Ancient Near East |
| 2004 | 4th-year | Ian R. B. Desai | here Poetry Comes to Live |
| 2004 | 4th-year | Austin Bean, Honorable Mention | Alternatives to, Defenses of, Mathematical Orthodoxies |
| 2003 | 4th-year | Rukmini Singh | Manga (Japanese Comics), Shoujo Manga ( Girl's Comics) and Boys' Love |
| 2003 | 4th-year | Christian Kammerer, Honorable Mention | Man and Fish |
| 2003 | 4th-year | Margo Miller, Honorable Mention | Rock Writing and the Vinyl Closet |
| 2002 | 4th-year | Rachel Anne Dion | Ancient Egypt |
| 2002 | 4th-year | Licsi Aniko Szatmari | The Development of Sufism in Iran and Central Asia |
| 2002 | 4th-year |
Jessica B. Ferguson, Honorable Mention |
Modern Central European Literature in Translation |
| 2002 | 2nd-year | Zachary Martin | First Person Masculine American Travel Literature |
| 2002 | 2nd-year |
Ian R. B. Desai, Honorable Mention |
Enduring Verse: Ancient Legacy/ Modern Inheritance |
| 2001 | 4th-year | Patrick Earnest | Suicidal Writers and Their Works |
| 2001 | 4th-year |
Elisha Fishbane, Honorable Mention |
Jewish Mystical Literature |
| 2001 | 2nd-year | Kristin Paige Schmidt | Gnosticism and Its Early Christian Context |
| 2000 | 2nd-year | Moshe Krakowski | Jewish Studies |
| 2000 | 2nd-year | Jared Ronai Shurin | Robert Graves: His Life and Works |
| 2000 | 2nd-year | Aniko Szatmari | The Marriage of Philo and Sophia: Love and Knowledge in Medieval Islam and the European Renaissance |
| 1999 | 4th-year | Katharine Olson | Cymru am byth: The Language, Literature, and History of Wales |
| 1998 | 4th-year | Sherlina Nageer | Literature and Poetry from the Caribbean |
| 1998 | 4th-year | Elda Stanco | The New Latin American Narrative |
| 1998 | 2nd-year | John Allread | Hoosier Notables: 1880-1930 |
| 1997 | 4th-year | Benjamin A. Lord | Abstract Expressionism |
| 1997 | 2nd-year | Nathan H. Mauk | The Epistemology of Meaning and Communication |
| 1996 | 4th-year | Nathanael Crawford | From "Mankind" to Midwives: The John Newberry Medal |
| 1996 | 4th-year | Aden Kumler | A Bookmaker's Books: A Collection of Fine Printed and Handmade Books |
| 1995 | 4th-year | Gregory Vargo | Contemporary American Poetry |
| 1995 | 4th-year | Isabel Cole | Fairytales and Folklore |
| 1995 | 2nd-year | Taska Moira Harnischfeger | Imagination and Prophecy: Early to Modern Classics of Fantasy and Science Fiction |
| 1994 | 4th-year | Robert J. Williams | U.S. Highways |
| 1994 | Honorable Mention | Daska Babcock | Issues of Women around the World |
| 1993 | 4th-Year | William Frohnhoefer | Catholic Literature with a special emphasis on English Converts |
| 1993 | 2nd-year | John Ward | 18th Century French Decorative Arts and the English Country House |
| 1992 | 4th-year | Heather Stettler | The History of Paleonanthropology and Archeology |
| 1992 | 2nd-year | Benjamin Wiener | Media and Mass Culture and the Works of Don DeLillo |
| 1991 | 4th-year | David A. Gemunder | American Antebellum and Civil War History |
| 1991 | 2nd-year | Brian Huelsmann | Experimental Literature and Modern German Literature and its Precursors |
| 1990 | 4th-year | Mark M. Levandoski | Vladimir Nabokov |
| 1990 | 2nd-year | Nathan Ferguson | Michael Moorcock |