Year

Award Area

Name

Institution

Thesis Title

1977

Humanities

Susan Day Dean

Bryn Mawr College

Hardy’s Poetic Vision in "The Dynasts:" The Diorama of a Dream

1978

Natural Sciences (including Engineering)

Arthur W. Snow

Graduate School - CUNY

Poly (Carbon Suboxide) A Paramagnetic Photosensitive Oligomer

1979

Social Sciences

Thomas O’Sullivan

Columbia University

The "De Excidio" of Gildas: Its Authenticity and Date

1980

Humanities

Robert Dawidoff

Cornell University

The Education of John Randolph

1981

Natural Sciences (including Engineering)

Marshall Long

Yale University

A Light Scattering for Simultaneous Two-Dimensional Gas Concentration Measurements

1982

Social Sciences

Lucille H. Brockway

Graduate School– CUNY

Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens

1984

Humanities

John Lauritz Larson

Brown University

Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America’s Railway Age

1985

Natural Sciences (including Engineering)

Aldo Migone

Pennsylvania State University

Heat Capacity Study of Nitrogen and Argon Absorbed on Graphite

1986

Social Sciences

Sister Anne Munley

Boston College

The Hospice Alternative: A New Context for Death and Dying

1987

Humanities

Cornell Fleiscer

Princeton University

Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Ali

1988

Natural Sciences (including Engineering)

Mark Hollingsworth

Yale University

Infrared Studies of Carbon Dioxide Dimers as a Probe of Local Stress in Solid State Reactions

1989

Social Sciences

William F. Harris II

Princeton University

The Interpretable Constitution

1990

Humanities & Fine Arts

Sheila Emerson

Rutgers University – New Brunswick

Ruskin: The Genesis of Invention

Chantal Zabus

University of Massachusetts – Amherst

Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel

1991

Natural Sciences (including Engineering)

J. Adin Mann

Pennsylvania State University

Acoustic Intensity: Energy Transfer, Wave Properties, and Applications

1992

Social Sciences

Elizabeth Colwill

SUNY – Binghamton

Transforming Women’s Empire: Representations of French Political Culture, 1770 - 1807

1993

Humanities & Fine Arts

Adam Potkay

Rutgers University – New Brunswick

Ideal of Eloquence in the Age of Hume

1994

Agriculture, Biological & Health Sciences

Lyndon Mitnaul

Pennsylvania State University

The Mechanism of Regulation of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase By (6r) – Tetrahydrobiopterin in Cultured Primary Rat Hepatocytes

1995

Physical Sciences, Math, & Engineering

Xianhua Jiang

York University

Wobble-Nutation Modes of the Earth

1996

Social & Behavioral Sciences & Education

Scott Sandage

Rutgers University – New Brunswick

1919 - 1893

1997

Humanities, Fine and Applied Arts

Jose Antonio Brandao

York University

"Your fyre shall burn no more": Iroquois Policy Towards New France and Her Native Allies to 1701

1998

Agricultural, Biological and Health Sciences

Li Cai

Rutgers University – New Brunswick & the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Cell Proliferation in the Pseudostratified Ventricular Epithelium in Early Developing Cerebal Cortex of the Mouse