2023
Graduate Winner: Michael Freeman (Duke University), "The Body of the Scribe"
Honorable Mention: Sophie Seidler (Ludwig Maximilian University Munich)
2022
Graduate Winner: Allison Smith (Florida State University), "The Sims IV Balneum Building: Interconnections and Potential Templates in Central Italian Bath Design"
Honorable Mention: Gwendolyn Gibbons (Indiana University), "Livy’s 'Building Project': Sacrificial Women and the (Raped) Body Politic"
2021
Undergraduate: Luis Sanchez (Florida State University), “Sophocles’ Antigone and the Biological Imperative to Marry”
Honorable Mention: Helen Ruger (Columbia University, NY), “Reproductive Agency and the Role of the Female Psyche in Soranus’ Gynaecology”
Graduate Winner: Sinja Küppers (Duke University, NC), "Studying Abroad in Antiquity: Student Movement and Educational Policy"
Honorable Mentions: Ann Glennie (Florida State University), "A Punic Cistern at Cosa"
Amelia M. Bensch-Schaus (University of California, Los Angeles), "The Second Best at Center Stage: The Odyssean Framework of Sophocles' Ajax"
2020
Undergraduate: Helen Ruger (Columbia University, NY), "Graceful Giving: The Role of the Female in Seneca's De Beneficiis"
Honorable Mention: Tiffany Nguyen (Trinity University), "The Performative Rhetoric of Horace in the Odes"
Graduate: Marko Vitas (Brown University, RI), "Name Replacement as a Stylistic Device in Pindar's Epinician Odes"
Honorable Mentions: Ximing Lu (University of Wisconson-Madison), "Cicero's Athenian Days: Intellectual Rivalry through Study Abroad"
Eva Carrara (Florida State University), "Cato as Exemplary Historian in Against Verres"
2019
Noreen Sit (Yale University CT), Starring Messalina as Maenad
Runners-Up:
Jenna Rice (University of Missouri), Dogs of War?: Reevaluating Dogs in Greek Warfare
Rebecca Moorman (University of Wisconsin--Madison), Lying Eyes? Autopsy, Credibility, and the Senses in Apuleius, Met. 1.4
2018
Grace H. P. Funsten (University of Washington), A Learned Dog: Roman Elegy and the Epitaph for Margarita
Runners-Up:
Isabella Reinhardt (University of Pennsylvania), Sound in Ennius' Annales
Brian D. McPhee (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Weird Pathos: Stesichorus’ Geryoneis and the Sympathetic Monsters of Apollonius’ Argonautica
2017
Ursula M. Poole (Columbia University) The Winter of Discontent: Climate and Interiority in the Exilic Poems.
Sarah C. Teets (University of Virginia) The Counterfeit Rhetor: Class in Demosthenes’ Characterization of Aeschines’ Use of Oral and Written Communication in the De Corona.
2016
Katherine De Boer Simons (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) "Blaming Helen: Inconsistency in Aeneid 6 and Odyssey 24"
2015
Winner
Julia Mebane (University of Chicago), Fighting over Rome’s Corpus: Competing Metaphors of the Body Politic in the Catilinarian Conspiracy
Honorable Mention
Jenna R. Rice (University of Missouri), Why Was Alexander's Indian Campaign So Bloody?
2014
Winners
Scott A. Barnard (Rutgers University), "On the Authorship of the Strasbourg Epodes: Archilochus, Hipponax, or Both?”
Reina E. Callier (University of Colorado Boulder), "Carmentis and the Carpenta: Testing Poetic and Political Boundaries in Fasti 1.617-636”
2013
Winners
Giulio Celotto (Florida State University), "Agathon's 'Ilioupersis' in Aristophanes' Thesmorphoriazusae"
Mitchell R. Pentzer (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Horace-ing Around with Martial 10.68."
2012
Winner
Joshua M. Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Horace Odes 2.7 and the Literary Tradition (?) of Rhipsaspia
Honorable Mention
Michael S. Holstead (Indiana University, Bloomington), "The Divine Arming of Achilles"
2011
Winner
Jason S. Nethercut (University of Pennsylvania) "Generic Multiplicity in the Proem to the Aeneid."
Honorable Mention
Kerry Lefebvre (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "From Field to Fold: Mixed Metaphors in Moschus' Europa"
T. George Hendren (University of Florida) "Woven Alliteration in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura."
2010
Winner
Patrick G. Lake (Fordham University) "Plato's Quarrel with Homer's 'Divine Bard': Implied Censorship in Republic 389d2-3 & 390a10-b2."
Second Prize
Hunter L. Nielsen (University of Arizona) "Civitas Terrena et Civitas Dei: Orosius and Augustine on Temporal Power, Roman Society, and Divine Will."
Honorable Mention
Elizabeth M. Greene (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Roman Military Wives in Latin Epigraphy"
Daniel J. Griffin (Duke University) "Ovid's Vertumnus and the Elegiac Fantasy."
2009
Winner
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "From the homosocial to the heterosocial: Societal development in Argonautica 4."
Honorable Mention
Emily Kratzer (University of California, Los Angeles) "ἄνω κάτω: spatial metaphor in Euripides' Herakles and the duality of the hero"
Alexander E. Hall (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "'Shades of Sappho: Melic Allusion in Aeneid 6.450-475."
2008
Winner
Lynne A. Kvapil (University of Cincinnati) "Contolling the Countryside: Defining the Territory of Mycenae"
Honorable Mention
Charlie R. Harper (Florida State University) "The Beast Within: Lucan's Lion (1.205ff.) and his Achillean Caesar"
C. Michael Sampson (University of Michigan) "The themist's of Zeus (Od. 16.400-5)"
Aaron W. Wenzel of The Ohio State University) "Beneficia in Cicero's De Officiis and Philippic II"
2007
Winner
Johanna Hobratschk (Washington University, St. Louis) "Apulian Vase-Painting in Context: A Reconsideration of Dramatic Scenes"
Aaron M. Seider (University of Chicago) for"'Vergil's Sixth Eclogue and Creative Freedom"
Honorable Mention
Andrew T. Alwine (University of Florida) "The Non-Homeric Side of the Homeric Cyclops"
2006
Winner
John H. Henkel (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "Provocative Enjambment in Vergil's Aeneid"
2005
Winner
Chad Matthew Schroeder (University of Michigan) "New Inscriptions on Old Shells: Hellenistic Epigram and a New Kingdom Inscribed Fossil from Heliopolis."
Honorable Mention
Laura Van Abbema (University of Wisconsin: Madison) "Odi / hanc ego quae ... : Juvenal's Voice and the Problematic Persona"
Gerol C. Petruzella (SUNY Buffalo) "The Proper Limits of Philosophy: A Defense of Callicles"
Cami Slotkin (Tulane University) "Absence of Miasma as Proof of Innocence in Antiphon 5"
2004
Winner
Christopher Lovell (University of Texas-Austin) "Aggressive Xenia : Bronze for Gold in Iliad 6"
Honorable Mention
Chad Matthew Schroeder (University of Michigan) "Ascraeus Vergilius : Some Unobserved Instances of Intertexuality"
2003
Winner
Mark Nugent (University of Washington) "Moralizing Loss: Dio Chrysostom and the Rhetoric of Decline"
2002
Winner
Peter Anderson (University of Cincinnati) "Martial's Ideal Reader: Epigrammaton 1. praef and Moral Men"
2001
Winner
Karin Halvorsen (University of Arizona) "Masters of Metal: The Influence of Macedonian Metal Vases on Ceramics"
2000
Winner
Julie Langford-Johnson (Indiana University, Bloomington) "Brothels, Booze, and Back Allies? Reexamining the Moral Topography of Pompeii."
1999
Winner
Chad Turner (Loyola University of Chicago) "Tegeans vs. Athenians, Herodotus vs. Plutarch: Reassessing the Historicity of Aristides 12"
1998
Winner
Lisa A. Hughes (Indiana University)"The Amiternum Reliefs: A Re-Evaluation of the Role of Freedmen Outside of Rome"
1997
Winner
James Whelton (Loyola University of Chicago) "Sexual Fidelity of Female Slaves and the Stability of the Oikos in Homer's Odyssey."
1996
Winner
Hugh Cayless (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Ovid and Augustus Tonans."