Stephen G. Brush
in recognition of his book Choosing Selection: The Revival of Natural Selection in Anglo-American Evolutionary Biology, 1930-1970
John Frederick Lewis Award
Established by a gift from the widow of John F. Lewis, to honor the outstanding maritime lawyer who played a major role in various cultural institutions in Philadelphia. Since 1981 the award has recognized the best book published by the Society in a given year.
2009
2008
Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt
for her monograph, Franz Boas and W.E.B. DuBois at Atlanta University, 1906
2007
Lionel Gossman
for his monograph, The Making of a Romantic Icon: The Religious Context of Friedrich Overbeck's “Italia und Germania”
2005
Derek S. Linton,
for his monograph, "Emil von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy."
2004
Edward J. Olszewski,
for "Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII"
2003
James E. McClellan,
for Specialist Control: The Publications Committee of the Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris), 1700-1973
2001
A. Mark Smith,
for Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception: A Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of the First Three Books of Alhacen's De aspectibus, the Medieval Latin Version of Ibn al-Haytham's Kitab al-Manazir
1998
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.,
for Patriot-Improvers, Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, 1743-1769
Martin W. Daly,
for The Sirdar. Sir Reginald Wingate and the British Empire in the Middle East
1995
Herbert H. Kaplan,
for Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
Corinne Comstock Weston,
for The House of Lords and Ideological Politics: Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party, 1846-1922
