Recipients
2020-2021
Abimbola Adelakun, Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Performing Faith: Politics, Power, and Nigerian Pentecostalism"
Craig Campbell, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Tunguska Events: Siberia, industrialism and the time of catastrophe"
Wendy Hunter, Professor in the Department of Government, for "Nationalism and the Unmaking of Citizens in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and India"
Coleman Hutchison, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Dixie Mythologies: Region, Race, Refrain"
Youjeong Oh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Placing Periphery: Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju, South Korea"
Martha Selby, Professor in South Asian Studies, for "A Complete Translation of Kuruntokai, an Early Old Tamil Anthology"
2019-2020
Kamran Ali, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Cinema and the City: Karachi in the 1960s"
Katherine Arens, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Kant in Central Europe: From Minoritarian Philosophy to Critique of Knowledge"
Samy Ayoub, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955"
Alex Beasley, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Expert Capital: Houston and the Making of a Service Empire"
Xiaobo Lu, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Skeleton of the State: Party Formation, Fiscal Extraction, and State Building in China and Taiwan"
Gesel Mason, Associate Professor and affiliate in the Departments of Theatre & Dance and African and African Diaspora Studies, respectively, for "No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers"
D. Alex Walthall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, for "Life on the Margins: The University of Texas at Austin Excavations at Morgantina (Sicily)"
Bruce Wells, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "The Forensic Turn in Ancient Near Eastern Litigation (describing the transition in Mesopotamia from ritual-based litigation procedure to one much more grounded in evidence)"
2018-2019
Vladislav Beronja, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, for "Unacknowledged Losses: Mourning Memory, and Resistance in the Wake of Yugoslavia"
Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and African & African Diaspora Studies, for "Queen Mother Moore: Biography of a Black Internationalist"
Jonathan Kaplan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "The Bibilical Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions of Liberty"
Donna Kornhaber, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Women's Work: The Female Screenwriter and the Development of Early American Film"
Kelly McDonough, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for "Indigenous Science and Technologies of Mexico Past and Present"
Julia Mickenberg, Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Eve Merriam and the Way We Were"
Joan Neuberger, Professor in the Department of History, for "Sergei Eisenstein, The Feeling of Landscape, and a Socialist Politics of the Arts"
2017-18
Jennifer-Kate Barret, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Pandora's Clock: Contingent Ethics in Renaissance English Literature”
Deborah Beck, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, for “The Stories of Epic Similes”
Brent Crosson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, for “The Other Anthropocene: Race, Energy, and Fossil Fuel Cosmologies in Trinidad”
Joshua Frens-String, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for “Hungry for Revolution: Food, Land, and Labor in the Making of Modern Chile”
Courtney Handman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for “Unnatural languages: technological and colonial fears at the limits of the human”
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE”
David Kornhaber, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Tragedy and Postmodernity in Anglo-American Drama”
Cory Reed, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for “Embodied Cognition, Empathy, and Activism in Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Performance”
Sonia Roncador, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for “Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies; Cultural History and Anthropology; Hemisphere Studies”
2016-17
Janine Barchas, Professsor in the Department of English, for "The Lost Books of Jane Austen: Case Studies in Editing, Reception History, and Cover Art"
Janet Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Jawsmania: A History"
Lauren Gutterman, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage"
Heather Houser, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Environmental Culture of the 'Infowhelm'"
Julie Minich, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, for "Enforceable Care: Health, Justice, and Latina/o Expressive Culture
Gretchen Murphy, Professor in the Department of English, for "Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers"
Abena Osseo-Asare, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for "Particles in Bodies: Historical Perspectives on Radiation and Health in Ghana"
Gabriela Polit, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Unwanted Witnesses: Journalism and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America"
Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor in the Department of Government, for "Unequal at the Founding: Indentured Servants, Poor Whites, and the Legacy of Colonial America"
Sam Vong, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for "Geopolitics of Compassion: The International History of Southeast Asian Refugees after the Vietnam War, 1960s-1990s"
Jennifer Wilks, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Diasporic Carmens"
2015-16
Daniel Birkholz, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "We Have to Invent Him: Harley Lyrics, Hereford Maps, and the Life of Roger de Breynton, c. 1290-1351"
Paola Bonifazio, Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Women's Popular Culture in Italy, 1948-1968"
Danny Law, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, for "Structure and Authority in Classic and Colonial Mayan Texts"
Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor in the Department African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Calypso Conquered the World: C.L.R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in the Trinidadian Postcolony"
Sandro Sessarego, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Chocó Spanish and Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis"
Shirley Thompson, Associate Professor in the departments of American Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies, for "No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property" and "The African-American Experience in Texas"
Per Urlaub, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Literary Reading in the Second Language: Theoretical Considerations and Curricular Implications"
2013-14
Pascale Bos, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Between History and Imagination: Nazi Sexual Violence in the Literature of the Holocaust"
Jennifer Graber, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, for "Forged in Empire: Indian and American Religious Worlds, 1803–1903"
Benjamin Gregg, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Genetic Manipulation of Human Embryos: Moral Dilemmas, Humanistic Answers"
Peter Hess, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Mapping Emerging Modernity: Crisis, Transgression, Discipline, and Ordering in Early Modern German Literature"
Lars Hinrichs, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Variation in Texas English: Diversity and Changing Cultural Identity"
Sofian Merabet, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "The Queer Archive of the Carlton Hotel Beirut: Documents and Ephemera as a Record of the Human Experience in Colonial Lebanon"
Elizabeth Scala, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "The Early Modern Book Project"
Christen Smith, Assistant Professor in the Departments of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, for "Remembering Beatriz Nascimento: Quilombo, Territoriality, Memory and Black Transcendence"
2012-2013
Marc Bizer, Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "The Impossible Choice: Toward a New Definition of the Tragic and Tragedy in France, 1100-1700"
Juliet A. Hooker, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Hybrid Traditions: Race in U.S. African-American and Latin American Political Thought"
Randolph R. Lewis, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The Culture of Surveillance: Affect, Power, and Technology"
Marc Pierce, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Towards a New History of Germanic Linguistics in North America"
Nancy K. Stalker, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Budding Fortunes: Ikebana, Identity, and Globalization in Modern Japan"
Circe D. Sturm, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Race, Sovereignty, and Civil Rights: The Cherokee Freedmen and the Ongoing Struggle for Tribal Citizenship"
Cynthia M. Talbot, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Noble Lineages in the Making: Writing Warrior Histories in Mughal India, 1590-1690"
Lisa Thompson, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory"
Jeffrey Walker, Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition, for "The Rhetoric of the Ant: Joseph Rhakendytes' Synopsis of Rhetoric and Ptochoprodromos 4"
Alexandra Wettlaufer, Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Translating George: Sand, Eliot, and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900"
Hannah C. Wojciehowski, Professor in the Department of English, for "Archaeologies of Censorship: Michel Foucault's 1968"
2011-2012
Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Mediascapes: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Spanish Caribbean"
Kristen Belgum, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Geographical Imagination or How the World Shrank in the Nineteenth Century"
Benjamin Brower, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Mediterranean Hajj Under French Rule, 1798-1962"
Kirsten Cather, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Scripting Suicide in Modern Japan"
Tarek El-Ariss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "Making a Scene: Literature, Social Media, and the Arab Spring"
Huaiyin Li, Professor in the Department of History, for "China Under Mao: A New Interpretation"
Jeffrey Meikle, Stiles Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The Cultural Legacy of the Beat Generation:a multidisciplinary study of writers and artists influenced by the Beat writers"
Lisa Moore, Professor in the Department of English, for "Selected Poems of Anna Seward - new edition"
Lynn Wilkinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "A Field of Their Own: Women Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Europe"
2010-2011
Katherine Arens, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Austrian Arc/K: A Historical Epistemology of Modern Science."
Arturo Arias, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Kotz'ib': The Emergence of a New Maya Literature."
Janine Barchas, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity."
Erika Bsumek, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Concrete West: Engineering Society and the Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1980."
Luis Carcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "On Mapuche Voices and Poetic Economies."
John Hartigan, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "The Roots of Racial Thinking: A Contemporary and Historical Study of ‘Razas de Maiz'."
Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Broken Promise: The United States and the Developing World in the Crucial Decade."
Julia Mickenberg, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination."
Martha Newman, Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies, for "Miracle and Doubt in Late Twelfth-Century Monasticism."
Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Fictions of Drugs: Stories from Culiacan, Medellin and La Paz."
2009-2010
Hans Boas, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Linguistic Infrastructure in Texas: Past potentials, current challenges, and future opportunities"
Yoav Di-Capua, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Arab Thought on the Eve of Dystopia, 1939-1967"
Alison Frazier, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Beginning of the World in the Italian Renaissance: Conversations about Creation, 1300-1500"
Karen Grumberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages, for "Hebrew Gothic: Narrative, Nation, and the Discourse of Victimization"
Sabine Hake, Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Political Affect: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema"
Tracie Matysik, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for a monograph, "Spinoza Matters" and a translation, "Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality"
Robert Oppenheim, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "An intellectual History of Korea and American Anthropology"
Paula Perlman, Professor in the Department of of Classics, for two Cretan Studies, "The Inscribed Laws of Ancient Crete" and "Constructing Crete: Society and History, ca. 1000-400 B.C."
Guy Raffa, Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Dante's Bones"
Marjorie Curry Woods, Professor in the Department of English, for "Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom"
2020-2021
Abimbola Adelakun, Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Performing Faith: Politics, Power, and Nigerian Pentecostalism"
Craig Campbell, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Tunguska Events: Siberia, industrialism and the time of catastrophe"
Wendy Hunter, Professor in the Department of Government, for "Nationalism and the Unmaking of Citizens in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, and India"
Coleman Hutchison, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Dixie Mythologies: Region, Race, Refrain"
Youjeong Oh, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Placing Periphery: Development, Dispossession, and Desires in Jeju, South Korea"
Martha Selby, Professor in South Asian Studies, for "A Complete Translation of Kuruntokai, an Early Old Tamil Anthology"
2019-2020
Kamran Ali, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Cinema and the City: Karachi in the 1960s"
Katherine Arens, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Kant in Central Europe: From Minoritarian Philosophy to Critique of Knowledge"
Samy Ayoub, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "Law and Legal Modernity in Colonial Egypt, 1800-1955"
Alex Beasley, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Expert Capital: Houston and the Making of a Service Empire"
Xiaobo Lu, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Skeleton of the State: Party Formation, Fiscal Extraction, and State Building in China and Taiwan"
Gesel Mason, Associate Professor and affiliate in the Departments of Theatre & Dance and African and African Diaspora Studies, respectively, for "No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers"
D. Alex Walthall, Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics, for "Life on the Margins: The University of Texas at Austin Excavations at Morgantina (Sicily)"
Bruce Wells, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "The Forensic Turn in Ancient Near Eastern Litigation (describing the transition in Mesopotamia from ritual-based litigation procedure to one much more grounded in evidence)"
2018-2019
Vladislav Beronja, Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies, for "Unacknowledged Losses: Mourning Memory, and Resistance in the Wake of Yugoslavia"
Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and African & African Diaspora Studies, for "Queen Mother Moore: Biography of a Black Internationalist"
Jonathan Kaplan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "The Bibilical Jubilee and Ancient Utopian Visions of Liberty"
Donna Kornhaber, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Women's Work: The Female Screenwriter and the Development of Early American Film"
Kelly McDonough, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for "Indigenous Science and Technologies of Mexico Past and Present"
Julia Mickenberg, Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Eve Merriam and the Way We Were"
Joan Neuberger, Professor in the Department of History, for "Sergei Eisenstein, The Feeling of Landscape, and a Socialist Politics of the Arts"
2017-18
Jennifer-Kate Barret, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Pandora's Clock: Contingent Ethics in Renaissance English Literature”
Deborah Beck, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, for “The Stories of Epic Similes”
Brent Crosson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, for “The Other Anthropocene: Race, Energy, and Fossil Fuel Cosmologies in Trinidad”
Joshua Frens-String, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for “Hungry for Revolution: Food, Land, and Labor in the Making of Modern Chile”
Courtney Handman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for “Unnatural languages: technological and colonial fears at the limits of the human”
Geraldine Heng, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Early Globalities: The Interconnected World, 500-1500 CE”
David Kornhaber, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for “Tragedy and Postmodernity in Anglo-American Drama”
Cory Reed, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for “Embodied Cognition, Empathy, and Activism in Early Modern Spanish Theatrical Performance”
Sonia Roncador, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, for “Luso-Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies; Cultural History and Anthropology; Hemisphere Studies”
2016-17
Janine Barchas, Professsor in the Department of English, for "The Lost Books of Jane Austen: Case Studies in Editing, Reception History, and Cover Art"
Janet Davis, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Jawsmania: A History"
Lauren Gutterman, Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage"
Heather Houser, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Environmental Culture of the 'Infowhelm'"
Julie Minich, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, for "Enforceable Care: Health, Justice, and Latina/o Expressive Culture
Gretchen Murphy, Professor in the Department of English, for "Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers"
Abena Osseo-Asare, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for "Particles in Bodies: Historical Perspectives on Radiation and Health in Ghana"
Gabriela Polit, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Unwanted Witnesses: Journalism and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America"
Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor in the Department of Government, for "Unequal at the Founding: Indentured Servants, Poor Whites, and the Legacy of Colonial America"
Sam Vong, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, for "Geopolitics of Compassion: The International History of Southeast Asian Refugees after the Vietnam War, 1960s-1990s"
Jennifer Wilks, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Diasporic Carmens"
2015-16
Daniel Birkholz, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "We Have to Invent Him: Harley Lyrics, Hereford Maps, and the Life of Roger de Breynton, c. 1290-1351"
Paola Bonifazio, Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Women's Popular Culture in Italy, 1948-1968"
Danny Law, Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics, for "Structure and Authority in Classic and Colonial Mayan Texts"
Minkah Makalani, Assistant Professor in the Department African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Calypso Conquered the World: C.L.R. James and the Politically Unimaginable in the Trinidadian Postcolony"
Sandro Sessarego, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Chocó Spanish and Veracruz Spanish: African Diaspora and Creole Genesis"
Shirley Thompson, Associate Professor in the departments of American Studies and African and African Diaspora Studies, for "No More Auction Block for Me: African Americans and the Problem of Property" and "The African-American Experience in Texas"
Per Urlaub, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Literary Reading in the Second Language: Theoretical Considerations and Curricular Implications"
2013-14
Pascale Bos, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Between History and Imagination: Nazi Sexual Violence in the Literature of the Holocaust"
Jennifer Graber, Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, for "Forged in Empire: Indian and American Religious Worlds, 1803–1903"
Benjamin Gregg, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Genetic Manipulation of Human Embryos: Moral Dilemmas, Humanistic Answers"
Peter Hess, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Mapping Emerging Modernity: Crisis, Transgression, Discipline, and Ordering in Early Modern German Literature"
Lars Hinrichs, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Variation in Texas English: Diversity and Changing Cultural Identity"
Sofian Merabet, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "The Queer Archive of the Carlton Hotel Beirut: Documents and Ephemera as a Record of the Human Experience in Colonial Lebanon"
Elizabeth Scala, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "The Early Modern Book Project"
Christen Smith, Assistant Professor in the Departments of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology, for "Remembering Beatriz Nascimento: Quilombo, Territoriality, Memory and Black Transcendence"
2012-2013
Marc Bizer, Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "The Impossible Choice: Toward a New Definition of the Tragic and Tragedy in France, 1100-1700"
Juliet A. Hooker, Associate Professor in the Department of Government, for "Hybrid Traditions: Race in U.S. African-American and Latin American Political Thought"
Randolph R. Lewis, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The Culture of Surveillance: Affect, Power, and Technology"
Marc Pierce, Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Towards a New History of Germanic Linguistics in North America"
Nancy K. Stalker, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Budding Fortunes: Ikebana, Identity, and Globalization in Modern Japan"
Circe D. Sturm, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "Race, Sovereignty, and Civil Rights: The Cherokee Freedmen and the Ongoing Struggle for Tribal Citizenship"
Cynthia M. Talbot, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Noble Lineages in the Making: Writing Warrior Histories in Mughal India, 1590-1690"
Lisa Thompson, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, for "Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory"
Jeffrey Walker, Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition, for "The Rhetoric of the Ant: Joseph Rhakendytes' Synopsis of Rhetoric and Ptochoprodromos 4"
Alexandra Wettlaufer, Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Translating George: Sand, Eliot, and the Novel in France and Britain, 1830-1900"
Hannah C. Wojciehowski, Professor in the Department of English, for "Archaeologies of Censorship: Michel Foucault's 1968"
2011-2012
Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Mediascapes: Literature and New Media Cultures in the Spanish Caribbean"
Kristen Belgum, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Geographical Imagination or How the World Shrank in the Nineteenth Century"
Benjamin Brower, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Mediterranean Hajj Under French Rule, 1798-1962"
Kirsten Cather, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "Scripting Suicide in Modern Japan"
Tarek El-Ariss, Assistant Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for "Making a Scene: Literature, Social Media, and the Arab Spring"
Huaiyin Li, Professor in the Department of History, for "China Under Mao: A New Interpretation"
Jeffrey Meikle, Stiles Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The Cultural Legacy of the Beat Generation:a multidisciplinary study of writers and artists influenced by the Beat writers"
Lisa Moore, Professor in the Department of English, for "Selected Poems of Anna Seward - new edition"
Lynn Wilkinson, Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "A Field of Their Own: Women Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Europe"
2010-2011
Katherine Arens, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Austrian Arc/K: A Historical Epistemology of Modern Science."
Arturo Arias, Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Kotz'ib': The Emergence of a New Maya Literature."
Janine Barchas, Associate Professor in the Department of English, for "Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity."
Erika Bsumek, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Concrete West: Engineering Society and the Culture in the Arid West, 1900-1980."
Luis Carcamo-Huechante, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "On Mapuche Voices and Poetic Economies."
John Hartigan, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, for "The Roots of Racial Thinking: A Contemporary and Historical Study of ‘Razas de Maiz'."
Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Broken Promise: The United States and the Developing World in the Crucial Decade."
Julia Mickenberg, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, for "The New Woman Tries on Red: Russia in the American Feminist Imagination."
Martha Newman, Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Religious Studies, for "Miracle and Doubt in Late Twelfth-Century Monasticism."
Gabriela Polit-Dueñas, Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, for "Fictions of Drugs: Stories from Culiacan, Medellin and La Paz."
2009-2010
Hans Boas, Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Linguistic Infrastructure in Texas: Past potentials, current challenges, and future opportunities"
Yoav Di-Capua, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "Arab Thought on the Eve of Dystopia, 1939-1967"
Alison Frazier, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for "The Beginning of the World in the Italian Renaissance: Conversations about Creation, 1300-1500"
Karen Grumberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages, for "Hebrew Gothic: Narrative, Nation, and the Discourse of Victimization"
Sabine Hake, Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture in the Department of Germanic Studies, for "Political Affect: The Fascist Imaginary in Postfascist Cinema"
Tracie Matysik, Associate Professor in the Department of History, for a monograph, "Spinoza Matters" and a translation, "Women on Nietzsche, Gender, and Sexuality"
Robert Oppenheim, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, for "An intellectual History of Korea and American Anthropology"
Paula Perlman, Professor in the Department of of Classics, for two Cretan Studies, "The Inscribed Laws of Ancient Crete" and "Constructing Crete: Society and History, ca. 1000-400 B.C."
Guy Raffa, Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian, for "Dante's Bones"
Marjorie Curry Woods, Professor in the Department of English, for "Weeping for Dido: Male Writers and Female Emotions in the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Classroom"