2012 Gears for the Greeks
            Professor Alexander Jones,  New York University

2011 Laid Out For Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved With a
           Child's Portrait and His Poem
              Kathleen Coleman, Harvard University

2010   Making History Personal: Constantine Cavaf and the Rise of Rome
               Bruce Frier, University of Michigan

2009 The Fall (or not) of Rome: What Counts as Civilization? 
           Gillian Clark, University of Bristol

2008 Education in Greek and Roman Antiquity:
        The Papyri versus the Literary Sources
            Raffaella Cribiore, Columbia University

2007 Nature as Healer in Ancient Greek Medicine
              Paul Potter, University of Western Ontario 

2006  Roman Historians and the Truth 
             John Yardley, University of Ottawa

2005  The Genesis, Character, and Influence of Erasmus' Adagia
               John Grant, University of Toronto

2004  From Mystery to History:  The Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara
               David Mattingly, University of Leicester 

2003  The Odyssey's Odyssey
               David F. Bright, Emory University

2002  The Earliest Signs of a Christian Material Culture
          The Codex, the Nomina Sacra, the Staurogram
                Larry W. Hurtado, University of Edinburgh

2001  Plato and the Fates of His Books
               Mark Joyal, Memorial University of Newfoundland

2000  Getting to Heaven - The Mithraists' Way
              Roger Beck, University of Toronto

1999  Chasing Roman Soldiers From Turkey to Syria & Palestine, and Back
              James Russell, University of British Columbia

1998  Nationalism and Archaeology  Roman Africa and Germany Compared
              Colin M. Wells, Trinity University, Texas

1997  Michael Ventris and an Architect's Plan for the Decipherment of Linear B
              Thomas G. Palaima, University of Texas at Austin

1996  Married with Children The Structure and Dynamics of the Roman Family
              Jo-Ann Shelton, University of California, Santa Barbara

1995  Godesses, Whores, Vampires & Archaeologists 
          Ten Years of Excavation at Mytilene (Lesbos)
              Hector Willims, University of British Columbia

1994  Three Ways to Understand the Middle Ages
          The Historiographical, The Narrative, and The Biographical
              Norman Cantor, New York University

1993  The Oldest City in Western Europe 
          The Foundation and Early History of Marseille
              A. Trevor Hodge, Carleton University

1992  Honour and Shame and the Unity of the Roman World
              Susan Treggiari, Sanford University

1991  Vergil's Aeneid and J.M.W. Turner's Flaming Fields
               Alexander Gordon McKay, McMaster University

1990  A Medical Career in the Roman Empire: Galen of Pergamon
                John Scarborough, University of Wisconsin

1989  The Origins of the Alphabet
               George P. Goold, Yale University