2024
Senior Faculty: Jamie Capuzza, The Fifth Star: Ohio’s Fight for Women’s Right to Vote
Junior Faculty: Daniel Vandersommers, Entangled Encounters at the National Zoo: Stories from the Animal Archive
2023, No Award Given
2022, Mary Ann Heiss, Kent State University, Fulfilling the Sacred Trust: The UN Campaign for International Accountability for Dependent Territories in the Era of Decolonization
2021 Adam J. Davis, Denison University, The Medieval Economy of Salvation: Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of the Hospital
2020 Geoffrey Parker, The Ohio State University, Emperor: A New Life of Charles V
2019 Joan Cashin, The Ohio State University, War Stuff: The Struggle for Human and Environmental Resources in the American Civil War
2018
Senior Faculty: Sam White, The Ohio State University, A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
Junior Faculty: Randy M. Browne, Xavier University, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean
2017
Senior Faculty: Christopher Phillips, University of Cincinnati, The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
Junior Faculty: Ethan B. Katz, University of Cincinnati, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
2016 No award given
2015
Senior Faculty: Willard Sunderland, University of Cincinnati, The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
Junior Faculty: Drew A. Swanson, Wright State University, A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South
2014
Senior Faculty: Alice L. Conklin, The Ohio State University, In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950
Junior Faculty: Daniel Rivers, The Ohio State University, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
2013 Christian A. Raffensperger, Wittenberg University, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World
2012 John L. Brooke, The Ohio State University, Columbia Rising: Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson
2011 Carter Findley, The Ohio State University, Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity
2010 Daniel Hobbins, The Ohio State University, Authorship and Publicity Before Print
2009 Jonathan Reed Winkler, Wright State University, Nexus: Strategic Communications and American Security in World War I
2008 Andrew M. Schocket, Bowling Green State University, Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia
2007 David L. Stebenne, Ohio State University,Modern Republican: Arthur Larson and the Eisenhower Years
2006 Nicholas B. Breyfoglge, Ohio State University, Heretics and Colonizers: Forging Russia’s Empire in the South Caucasus
2005 Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University, A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen.
2004 Clifton Crais, Kenyon, The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa
2003 Isolde R. Thyrêt, Kent, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia
2002 Constance Brittain Bouchard, Akron, Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia.
2001 Theodore Steinberg, CWRU, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America.
2000 William B. Scott and Peter M. Rutkoff, Kenyon, New York Modern: The Arts in the City.
1999 Jeffrey P. Kimball, Miami, Nixon’s Vietnam War.
1998 Judith Sealander, BGSU, Private Wealth and Public Life.
1997 David Kyvig, Akron, Explicit and Authentic Acts: Amending the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1995.
1996 Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Carey, Toledo, Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775.
1995 David Hoffmann, OSU, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-41.
1994 John C. Burnham, OSU, Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in America.
1993 Raymond Dominck, OSU – Mansfield, The Environmental Movement in Germany:Prophets and Pioneers, 1871-1971.
1992 Christine D. Worobec, Kent, Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period.
1991 Jeremy Cohen, OSU, “Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It “: The Ancient and Medieval Career of a Biblical Text.
1990 Carter Findley, OSU, Ottoman Civil Officialdom. A Social History.
1989 Daniel Nelson, Akron, American Rubber Workers and Organized Labor.
1988 Michael J. Hogan, OSU, The Marshall Plan: America, Britain, and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952.
1987 Joseph H Lynch, OSU, Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe.
1986 Michael Grossberg, CWRU, Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in Nineteenth Century America.
1985 Morris Slavin, YSU, The French Revolution in Miniature.
1984 Raymond Boryczka, Ohio Historical Society, and Lorin Lee Cary, Toledo, No Strength Without Union: An Illustrated History of Ohio Workers, 1803-1980.
1983 Bertram Wyatt-Brown, CWRU, Southern Honor, Ethics and Behavior in the Old South.
1982 Zane Miller, Cincinnati, Suburb: Neighborhood and Community in Forest Park, Ohio, 1934-76.
1981 Allan K. Wildman, OSU, The End of the Russian Imperial Army: The Old Army.
1980 John D. Unruh, Jr., Bluffton, The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60.
1979 Allan Peskin, CSU, Garfield.
1978 David H. Weinberg, BGSU, A Community on Trial: The Jews of Paris in the 1930’s.
1977 David R. Sturtevant, Muskingum, Popular Uprisings in the Philippines, 1840-1940.
1976 James Kittleson, OSU, Wolfgang Capito: From Humanist to Reformer.
1975 Robert Chazan, OSU, Medieval Jewry in Northern France: A Political and Social History.
1974 Alonzo L. Hamby, Ohio University, Beyond the New Deal: Harry S Truman and American Liberalism.
1973 Robert Freeman Smith, Toledo, The United States and Revolutionary Nationalism in Mexico, 1916-1932.
1972 Charles Chatfield, Wittenberg, For Peace and Justice: Pacificism in America, 1914-1941.
1971 Jacob Marcus, Hebrew Union, The Colonial American Jew.
