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.”

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2008

Caroline Humphrey
for "Alternative Freedoms"

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2007

Patricia M. Wald
for "International Criminal Courts: Some Kudos and Concerns"

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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"
1996

Christian Habicht
for "Athens, Samos, and Alexander the Great"
1995

James McPherson
for "Who Freed the Slaves?"