William Chester Jordan
for "Count Robert's 'Pet' Wolf."
Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities
Established in 1982 by a gift from the widow of Henry Allen Moe, to honor the longtime head of the Guggenheim Foundation and president of the American Philosophical Society from 1959 to 1970. It pays particular tribute to his firm commitment to the humanities and those who pursue them. The Moe Prize is awarded annually to the author of a paper in the humanities or jurisprudence read at a meeting of the Society.
Recipients
2009
Barbara Mittler
for “Popular Propaganda? Art and Culture in Revolutionary China.”
2007
Patricia M. Wald
for "International Criminal Courts: Some Kudos and Concerns"
2006
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
for "The Study of Greek Sculpture in the Twenty-first Century"
2005
Linda Greenhouse
For "'Because We Are Final': Judicial Review Two Hundred Years after Marbury," delivered as part of the symposium "The Two Hundredth Anniversary of Marbury v. Madison."
2004
James J. Megivern
for "Capital Punishment: The Curious History of its Privileged Place in Christendom"
2003
Carmela Vircillo Franklin
for "'Pro Communi doctorum virorum comodo': The Vatican Library and Its Service to Scholarship"
2002
Thomas Noel Mitchell
for "Roman Republicansim: The Underrated Legacy"
2001
Harry Kitsikopoulos
for "Technological Change in Medieval England: A Critique of the Neo-Malthusian Argument"
2000
Helen Hennessy Vendler
for "Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: 'Mycanae Outlook' and the Usefulness of Tradition"
1999
Anthony Grafton
for "Girolamo Cardano and the Tradition of Classical Astrology"
1998
Gerhard Böwering
for "The Concept of Time in Islam"
1997
Jaroslav Pelikan
for "Greek Wisdom in New Rome"
