2006-07

First Place

• André Schmidt, "Sheep Struck by the Shepherd: Secular Clergy on the Battlefield in History and Literature"

Runners-Up

• Sandy Carpenter, "Ninth Century Carolingian Memory: The Empress Judith as Beautiful Queen, Adulterous Lover, and Concerned Mother"

2005-06

First Place

• Lisa Kaborycha, “Transvestites, Anchorites, Wives, and Martyrs: Legends of Female Saints and How They Were Read by Fifteenth-Century Florentine Women”

Runners-Up

• Randy Schiff, “Subverting the Stuarts: The Revival of Anti-Imperialism in Gologras and Gawane”
• Marisa Libbon, ““Margarete, the storye dothe her calle”: The Textual Invention of St. Margaret of Antioch”

2004-05

No prizes given.

2003-04

First Place

• Alicia Walker, “Articulating a Medieval Community of Kings: Diplomatic Gifts in The Book of Gifts and Rarities”

Runner-Up

• Michael P. McGlynn, “Mund, Mâg (skepi), uurd, uuord: law in the Heliand”

2002-03

First Place

• Liam Moore, “The Use of the Title “Imperator” in the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris”

Runner-Up

• Samuel Dean, “Fürwitz and the Passion for Fashion”

2001-02

First Place

• Glenn Keyser, “One Way Streets: Urban Geography and Anti-Semitism in Chaucer”s Prioress”s Tale”

Runners-Up

• Christina Fitzgerald, “Of Magi and Men: Christ”s Nativity and Masculinity in the Chester Drama Cycle”
• Ronald TGanze, “Leaveing the Bed-Chamber Behind: Chaucer”s Announcement in the Book of the Duchess”

2000-01

First Place

• Eleonora Stoppino, “Between East and West: Bernardo del Carpio and the drawing of cultural boundaries in XIIIc Spain”

Runners-Up

• Christina Fitzgerald, “A Guild Afloat: Domestic and Social Ideology in Chester”s “Noah”s Flood””
• Asa Mittman, ““Light words,” Weighty Pictures”