2024
Grace McGowan, “Venus Worked in Bronze”: African American Women Writers and Classical Beauty Myths” (Anita Patterson)
Kayli Reneé Rideout, “Not made by hands, built by memory and devotion”: Tiffany’s Confederate Memorial Windows” (William Moore)
Marina Wells, “Making Men From Whales: Gender and American Whaling Art, 1814-1861” (Ross Barrett)
2023
Katherine Evans, “‘I am Going to be a Veteran of this War:’ American Women’s Explorations of Domestic Life on the Western Front” (William Huntting Howell)
Megan LeBarron, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest and Literary Modernism in the Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis” (John T. Matthews)
Astrid Tvetenstrand, “Buying a View: American Landscape Painting and Gilded Age Vacation Culture, 1870-1910” (Ross Barrett)
Sean Case, “To Balance the World: The Development of the United States’ National Interest, 1919-1969” (Bruce Schulman)
Madeline Webster, “Race and Reuse: Black Historic Preservation Efforts in Boston, 1876-1976” (Daniel Abramson)
Megan Hermida Lu, “Amateur Travel Films of the American Pacific, 1923-1975″ (Roy Grundmann)
Alyssa Kreikemeier, “Aerial Empire: Contested Sovereignties and the American West” (Sarah Phillips)
Dan DeFraia, “State Work: A History of the American Reporter and Journalistic Independence” (Bruce Schulman)
2022
Frankie Vanaria, “The Global Screen: Intercultural Dialogue and Community in the Filmmaking of Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu” (Roy Grundmann)
Rachel Kirby, “Consuming the South: Representations of Taste, Place, and Agriculture” (Ross Barrett)
Christopher Stokum, “A Working Dress: American Intellectuals and Manual Labor, 1800-1860” (Jon Roberts)
Christine D’Auria: “Before the Blacklist: The Fiction and Film Work of Hollywood Screenwriters” (Susan Mizruchi)
Samantha Pickette: “Bridging the JAP: The Female-Driven Reconception of the Young Jewish Woman in American Popular Culture during the 1970s” (Ingrid Anderson)
Will Edmonstone: “Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the Literary Culture of Empire, 1898-1959” (Louis Chude-Sokei)
2021
Jessica S. Samuel: “From Virgin Land to Virgin Islands: Conserving ‘America’s Paradise’” (Julian Go)
Aaron Ahlstrom: “Revitalizing Forests: Multiple Management and the Evolving Landscapes of Massachusetts’s State Forests and Parks, 1891-1941” (Keith Morgan)
Mariah Gruner: “”…Has Ever Been the Appropriate Occupation of Woman”: Crafting Femininity in American Women’s Decorative Needlework, 1820 to 1920″ (Ross Barrett)
Emma Thomas: “Art Against Docility Visual Culture and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i” (William Moore)
2020
P.J. Carlino: “Docile by Design: Commercial Furniture and the Education of American Bodies 1840-1920” (William Moore)
Samuel R. Palfreyman: “The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Through it’s Twentieth-Century Architecture” (William Moore)
Kate Viens: “‘To Try the Speed’: Adventures in the Development of Massachusetts Railroads, 1826-1850” (Sarah Phillips)