2001
Eric Goldstein (Dissertation Fellowship), Emory University
Race and the Dilemmas of Jewish Identity, 1875-1945

2000
Edward Shapiro (Research Grant), Seton Hall University
Right Turn: Jews and the American Conservative Movement

Eugene Sheppard (Research Grant), Brandeis University
Analysis of Leo Strauss’ philosophy and work post-World War II at the University of Chicago

Nathan Abrams (Research Grant), University of London
The special role played by Commentary magazine in Jewish affairs, especially on the growth of American Jewish political conservatism.

1998
Marc Dollinger (Doctoral Prize), Pasadena City College
Turning Inward: Cultural Nationalism and American Jewish Life, 1964-1980

Karla Goldman (Doctoral Prize), Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute for Religion
Beyond the Gallery: The Place of Women in the Development of American Judaism

Mary McCune (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), Ohio State University
“Charity Work” as Nation-Building: American Jewish Women’s Activism and the Crises in Europe and Palestine, 1914-1929

Felicia Herman (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), Brandeis University
The ways gender has shaped the religious lives of American Jewish women and men from the 1890’s to World War II.

Jane Rothstein (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), New York University
Social and cultural history of the mikveh in the United States from the late nineteenth century through the 1940’s.

Jeremy Stolow (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), York University, Toronto, Canada
Nation of Torah: Inspiring Stories and the Politics of Historiography in a Religious Social Movement

Aviva Ben-Ur (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), Brandeis University, Queens University
Where Diasporas Met: Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews in the City of New York - A Study in Intra-Ethnic Relations, 1880-1950

Melissa Klapper (Special Grant in Women’s Studies), Rutgers University
A Fair Portion of the World’s Knowledge: Young American Jewish Women and the Problem of Education, 1870-1920

1997
Nancy Mykoff
A Jewish Season: Ethnic-American Culture at Children’s Summer Camp (1918-1941)

Jay Eidelman (Research Grant), Yale University
Jews in North America, 1790-1830

Regina Stein, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

1995
Reena Sigman Friedman (Research Grant), Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
History of the Reconstructionist Movement

Eli Faber (Research Grant), John Jay Criminal College
Jews and Slavery in the English Speaking World

Alice Saldan (Research Grant), University of Kansas
Eisenhower, American Middle East Policy, and Domestic Imperatives: American Zionism Confronts “Sympathetic Impartiality”

1993
Beth Wenger (Doctoral Prize), University of Pennsylvania
New York Jews and The Great Depression