2015 |
David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning author |
2012 |
Patricia Meyer Spacks, author and President Emeritus of the AAC&U |
2009 |
Douglas Greenberg, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University |
2006 |
Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Letters and Director of the Center for Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis |
2003 |
Robert Pinsky, Professor of English and Creative Writing, Boston University and former Poet Laureate of the United States |
2000 |
Richard Franke, Founder of the Chicago Humanities Festival and CEO Emeritus of The John Nuveen Company |
1997 |
Joseph Epstein, Renowned Essayist and former Editor of The American Scholar |
1990 |
John E. Sawyer, President Emeritus of Williams College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
1988 |
Daniel J. Boorstin, retired Librarian of Congress |
1985 |
Robert M. Lumiansky, President Emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies and The Phi Beta Kappa Society |
1982 |
Dumas Malone, the distinguished Jefferson scholar and Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia |
1979 |
Charles Frankel (awarded posthumously), teacher, philosopher and President Emeritus of The National Humanities Center |
1976 |
Louis B. Wright, Director Emeritus of the Folger Shakespeare Library |
1973 |
Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor for the Humanities at Harvard University |
1970 |
Barnaby C. Keeney, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and President Emeritus of Brown University |