2012

J. Anthony Guillory (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)

“The Physical Uplift of Race”

Desmond Jagmohan (Government, Cornell)

“Creating Community, Cultivating Citizens, and Interrogating Jim Crow: The Political Thought of Booker T. Washington”

2011

Markeysha Davis (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst

“Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind’:
Redefinition and Reaffirmation of the New Black Self in Poetry and Drama of the 1960s and 1970s”

Ricky Fayne (English, Northwestern)

“‘The Shadow of a Mighty Negro Past’: Du Bois and the Re-memory of Africa in to the Black America”