2024: Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Harvard University), “Flesh and Fabric: the Raiment of the Passion in a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti”
2023: Nina Rowe (Fordham University), “Nero’s Pregnancy and the Body Politic in Illuminated World Chronicle Manuscripts, circa 1400”
2022: Herbert Kessler (Johns Hopkins University), “‘Decorated with Life.’ Ornament’s Meaning during the Middle Ages and Beyond.”
2020: Robert Mills (University College London), “Recognizing Wilgefortis”
2019: Charles T. Little (Metropolitan Museum of Art), “The Gothic Renaissance”
2018: Mark M. Epstein (Vassar College), “The Subversive Afterlife of Images: Implied, Ensuing Action in Medieval Jewish Visual Culture”
2017: Christina Maranci (Tufts University), “Adventures in Armenian Architecture”
2016: Kathryn A. Smith (New York University), “‘A Lanterne of Lyght to the People’: English Narrative Alabaster Images of John the Baptist in their Visual, Religious, and Social Contexts”
2015: Asa S. Mittman (California State University, Chico), “Real Monsters: Medieval Belief, Wonder, and the “Wonders of the East”
2014: Richard K. Emmerson (Manhattan College), “Apocalyptic Visuality in Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts.”
2013 (2012): Thomas Dale (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Experiencing Romanesque Sculpture: The Body, the Senses, and Affect”
2012: Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan): “A Charismatic Thinker: Aby Warburg on Image and Word”
