2009 – Andrew Stewart (University of California, Berkeley), Innovation and Individuality in Greek Sculpture
2007 – Georges Didi-Huberman (École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris), Images of Lament, Lamentable Images?
2004 – Hayden B.J. Maginnis (McMaster University, Ontario), Rome: The Missing Maps
2001 – David Rosand (Columbia University),The Lessons of Meyer Shapiro
1998 – Michael Ann Holly (Clark Art Institute), Of Origins Known and Unknown
1997 – Michael Fried, Johns Hopkins University; Some Thoughts on Caravaggio
1994 – Joseph Koerner (Harvard University), The Family Portrait
1992 – Keith Moxey (Columbia University), Art History and Critical Theory: A Renaissance Example
1990 – W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago), The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing
1988 – Svetlana Alpers (University of California, Berkeley), Rubens and the Engendering of Art
1987 – Norman Bryson (Harvard University), Repressing History: Gros and Napoleon
2009 – Akiko Walley (PhD, Harvard University), Wheels within Wheels: The Yomo-ren Kyoka Circle and Hokusai’s “Book Cart and Porcelain Vase with Plum Branches” Surimono
2004 – Rebecca Zorach (PhD, University of Chicago), Pulled by night from its tomb: Animating Dead Antiquity in 16th Century France
2002 – Laura Hollengreen (PhD, University of California, Berkeley), From Calm Sobriety to Violent Sensuality: Changes in French Old Testament Imagery of the 13th Century