Previous Awardees
2022
Photography
Meggan Gould- Associate Professor of Art, University of New Mexico; Photography After Photography (A Reckoning)
Tarrah Krajnak- Assistant Professor of Art, University of Oregon; Master Rituals
Jennifer Adler- Independent Underwater Photojournalist; Changing Seas
2021
Creative Nonfiction
Heather Christle, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University, English
Rachel Corbett, Independent Writer, Mind Games
2020
Fiction
Mary-Kim Arnold, Visiting Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown University, Artist Unknown, Korean
Julie Iromuanya, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, A Season of Light: A Novel
Namwali Serpell, Professor of English at Harvard University, The Furrows
2019
Literary Studies
Shanna Benjamin, Associate Professor of English, Grinnell College, Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Christopher Taylor, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, The Voluntary Slave: Atlantic Modernity's Impossible Subject
2018
History of Art and Architecture
Sarah Betzer, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, Animating the Antique: Sculptural Encounters in the Age of Aesthetic Theory
Andrew Casper, Associate Professor of Art History, Miami University, Oxford, OH, The Shroud of Turin as Art, Icon, and Relic in Early Modern Italy
2017
2016
Michelle Gil-Montero, Lit. Translation into English, St. Vincent College
Roger Hallas, Film Studies, Syracuse University
Aviya Kushner, Creative Non-Fiction, Columbia College Chicago
Heather R. Love, Literary Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Patrick Madden, Creative Non-Fiction, Brigham Young University
T. Urayoán Noel, Literary Studies, New York University
2015
2014
Benjamin Broening, Music, University of Richmond
Stephanie Fleischmann, Playwriting, Skidmore College
Dana Gooley, Music, Brown University
Keeril Makan, Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David V. Mason, Theatre Studies, Rhodes College
Edward D. Melillo, History, Amherst College
Lydia Murdoch, History, Vassar College