• 2024 Margareta Ingrid Christian - Objects in Air: Artworks and Their Outside around 1900
• 2023 Elisabeth S. Clemens - Civic Gifts: Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
• 2022 Lisa Wedeen - Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria
• 2021 Michael Rossi - The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America
• 2020 Eve Ewing - Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
• 2019 Deborah L. Nelson - Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
• 2018 Forrest Stuart - Down, Out, & Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
• 2017 David Nirenberg - Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today
• 2016 Amir Sufi and Atif Mian - House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
• 2015 Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo - I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 2014 Alison Winter - Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
• 2013 Andreas Glaeser - Political Epistemics: The Secret Police, The Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
• 2012 Adrian Johns - Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
• 2011 Robert J. Richards - The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought
• 2010 Martha Feldman - Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy
• 2009 Bernard Harcourt[1] - Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age
• 2008 Philip Gossett[2] - Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera
• 2006 W.J.T. Mitchell - What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
• 2005 Bill Brown (critical theory) - A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature
• 2004 Jonathan Hall - Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture
• 2003 Robert J. Richards - The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
• 2002 Bruce Lincoln - Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
• 2001 François Furet - The Passing of an Illusion: The idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
• 2000 James Chandler - England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
• 1999 André LaCocque & Paul Ricoeur - Thinking Biblically: Exegetical and Hermeneutical Studies
• 1998 Martin E. Marty - Modern American Religion (in three volumes)
• 1997 Marshall Sahlins - How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
• 1996 W.J.T. Mitchell - Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
• 1995 Edward Laumann, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels - The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
• 1994 David McNeill - Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought
• 1993 Gerald N. Rosenberg - The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?
• 1992 Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff - On Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
• 1991 Leszek Kołakowski - Modernity on Endless Trial
• 1990 Richard G. Klein - The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins
• 1989 S. Chandrasekhar - Truth and Beauty
• 1988 David Grene - Herodotus: The History (translation)
• 1987 Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner - The Founders' Constitution (in five volumes)
• 1986 Mircea Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas (in three volumes)
• 1985 Paul Ricoeur - Time and Narrative, Volume 1
• 1984 Richard Hellie - Slavery in Russia, 1450-1725
• 1983 Anthony C. Yu - The Journey to the West (in four volumes)
• 1982 James M. Gustafson - Ethics from a Theocentric Perspective, Volume 1: Theology and Ethics
• 1981 Wayne C. Booth - Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism
• 1980 Morris Janowitz - The Last Half Century: Societal Change and Politics in America
• 1979 Alan Gewirth - Reason and Morality
• 1978 Sewall Wright - Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 3: Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions
• 1977 Marshall Sahlins - Culture and Practical Reason
• 1976 Keith Michael Baker - Condorcet: From Natural Philosophy to Social Mathematics
• 1975 Eric W. Cochrane - Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527–1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes
• 1974 Stuart M. Tave - Some Words of Jane Austen
• 1973 Edward Shils - The Intellectuals and the Powers
• 1972 Edward Wasiolek - The Notebooks of Dostoevsky (in five volumes)
• 1971 Herrlee G. Creel - The Origins of Statecraft in China, Volume 1: The Western Chou Empire
• 1970 Gerald D. Suttles - The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City
• 1969 Leonard B. Meyer - Music, the Arts, and Ideas: Patterns and Prediction in Twentieth-Century Culture
• 1968 Philip Foster - Education and Social Change in Ghana
• 1967 Donald F. Lach - Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume 1, Books 1 and 2
• 1966 A. Leo Oppenheim - Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
• 1965 Tang Tsou - America’s Failure in China, 1941-1950
• 1964 William Hardy McNeill - The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community
• 1963 Bernard Weinberg - A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance

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