2024
Campbell Rosener (Loyola University Chicago) "Inscribing Identity: The Development of the Latin Script in Ancient Rome and Early Modern Vietnam"
Srija Dey (University of Florida) "Bosom Buddies: Female Friendship in Senecan Tragedy"
Honorable Mention: Katherine Griffith (Indiana University Bloomington) "What's in a Name: Autobiographical Memory and Identity in the Erotic Graffiti of Roman Pompeii"
Honorable Mention: Laurence Pavlik (Augustana College) "Missing the Forest for the Trees: Identifying the Italian Sacred Grove"
2023
Rachel Becker (University of the Puget Sound, "Infelix Dido: Teaching Suicide Prevention Alongside Virgil’s Aeneid"
2022
Leejay Guyton (Metropolitan State University -Denver), "Ludus Latrunculorum Reconstructed"
2021
Isabella Blanton (University of Michigan), "For the Favor of Venus Pompeiana: A Gendered Analysis of Venus Graffiti in Pompeii"
2020
Kelsey Myers (University of Arkansas), "Isis as a Commercial Goddess? An Analysis of Egyptian Imagery in Pompeian Shops and Workshops"