John Addison Porter Prize

The John Addison Porter Prize is a literary award given annually by Yale University to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the results in such a literary form as to make the product of general human interest."[1] This award is among the highest the university confers. The prize was established in 1872 in honor of Professor John Addison Porter, B.A. 1842., and perpetuated with a subsequent gift in 1901.

The award should not be confused with the prize named for his son, the John Addison Porter Prize in American History, which is restricted to undergraduate history majors at Yale.

Winners

Winners of the John Addison Porter Prize over the years have included:

• 1872: Charles Joseph Hardy Ropes[2]
• 1873: Not awarded.[2]
• 1874: Henry Martin Ladd[2][3]
• 1875: Charles Whittlesey Guernsey[2]
• 1876: Thomas Rutherford Bacon[2]
• 1877: Myron Henry Phelps[2]
• 1878: Henry Ammon James[2][4]
• 1879: Edward Denmore Robbins
• 1880: Edwin Burpee Goodell[2]
• 1881: Not awarded.[2][5]
• 1882: Thomas Robert Morrow[2]
• 1883: John Wurts[2]
• 1884: Thorstein B. Veblen[2][6]
• 1885: Frank Strong[2]
• 1886: Sherman Day Thacher[2]
• 1887: Edward Mortimer Chapman[2]
• 1888: James Hayden Tufts[2]
• 1889: Edward Grant Buckland[2]
• 1890: Gerald H. Beard[2][7]
• 1891: Ray Burdick Smith[2]
• 1892: Not awarded.[2]
• 1893: Julian Ingersoll Chamberlain[2]
• 1894: Clive Day[2]
• 1895: William Frederick Foster[2]
• 1896: Winthrop Edwards Dwight[2]
• 1897: Francis Parsons[2]
• 1898: Samuel Peterson[2]
• 1899: Nathan Ayer Smyth[2]
• 1900: Herbert Wescott Fisher[2]
• 1901: Not awarded.[2]
• 1902: Edward Andrew Braniff[2]
• 1903: Richard Webb[2]
• 1904: Not awarded.[2]
• 1905: Stanleigh Arnold[2]
• 1906: Thomas D. Thacher[2]
• 1907: Charles Franklin[2]
• 1908: Alfred Arundel May[2][8]
• 1909: Not awarded.[2]
• 1910: William Smith Culbertson[2][9]
• 1911: Jack Randall Crawford[2][10]
• 1912: Not awarded.[2]
• 1913: William Alexander Robinson[2]
• 1914: Philip Barrows Whitehead[2][11]
• 1915: Percy Wells Bidwell[2]
• 1916: Richard J. Purcell[2]
• 1917: Thomas Goddard Wright[2]
• 1918: Lawrence H. Gipson[2]
• 1919: Not awarded.[2]
• 1920: Marjorie Hope Nicolson[2][12]
• 1921: George Stewart[2]
• 1922: Not awarded.[2]
• 1923: Dumas Malone[2]
• 1924: Not awarded.[2]
• 1925: Frederick Albert Pottle[2]
• 1926: William Clyde DeVane[2]
• 1927: Not awarded.[2]
• 1928: George Herbert Ryden[2]
• 1929: Stanley Pargellis[2]
• 1930: Not awarded.[2]
• 1931: Harry R. Rudin[2][13]
• 1932: Roger Franklin Murray[2]
• 1933: George Wilson Pierson[2]
• 1934: Charles Roy Keller[2]
• 1935: Joseph Lee Walsh[2]
• 1936: William B. Willcox[2]
• 1937: Helen Whitcomb Randall[2]
• 1938: Arthur Eugene Bestor[14]
• 1939: Monroe Curtis Beardsley[14]
• 1940: Liston Pope[14]
• 1941: Eric Russell Bentley[14]
• 1942: George Harry Ford[14]
• 1943: John James Brown[14]
• 1944: Lawrence Sidney Willson[14]
• 1945: William Alvord Borst[14]
• 1946: William Frost[14]
• 1947: Richard D. Ellmann[14]
• 1948: William Henry Jordy[14]
• 1949: Pier-Maria Pasinetti[14]
• 1950: William Hugh Kenner[14]
• 1951: Robert H. Ferrell[14]
• 1952: Aubrey Lake Williams[15]
• 1953: Charles Frederick Rudolph, Jr.[15]
• 1954: Otis Arnold Pease[15]
• 1955: George Stephen Carnett[15]
• 1956: Harold Bloom[15][16]
• 1957: William H. Goetzmann[15]
• 1958: Francis De Tarr[15]
• 1959: Béla Alexander Balassa[15]
• 1960: George Siemers Fayen, Jr.[15]
• 1961: David Gordon[15]
• 1962: Ajodhia Nath Kaul[15]
• 1963: Norma Doris Evenson[15]
• 1964: Allan Ira Ludwig[15]
• 1965: Jonathan D. Spence[15]
• 1966: Michael Jerome Kevin O'Loughlin[15]
• 1967: Edward Murray Peters[15]
• 1968: Robert Laurence Moore[15]
• 1969:
• 1970:
• 1971:
• 1972: Frank M. Turner
• 1973:
• 1974: Joan Shelley Rubin
• 1975:
• 1976: Stephen Holmes[17]
• 1977:
• 1978:
• 1979:
• 1980:
• 1981: Florencia Elizabeth Mallon [18]
• 1982:
• 1983: Timothy Naftali[19]
• 1984:
• 1985:
• 1986:
• 1987: Candace Waid [20]
• 1988:
• 1989: Jonathan Hay [21]
• 1990:
• 1991:
• 1992:
• 1993: James Shulman[22]
• 1994: Robert Pierce Forbes[23]
• 1995:
• 1996:
• 1997: Not awarded[23]
• 1998: Karl H. Jacoby & Jennifer Price[23]
• 1999: Blair Gerald Hoxby[23]
• 2000: Michael Rubin & Salim Yaqub[23]
• 2001: Peter R. Silver, Jeremi Suri, John Fabian Witt[23]
• 2002: Josiah W. Osgood[23]
• 2004: Erez Manela, Jonathan Reed Winkler[23]
• 2005: Aaron Jacob Sachs[23]
• 2006: Adam J. Robinson, John Tuxill, Leslie Ryan[23]
• 2007: Elizabeth Levy Paluck & Stephen C. Vella[23]
• 2008: Elizabeth N. Saunders & Siddhartha Das[23][24]
• 2009: Henry "Hal" Brands & Wendy Anne Warren[23][25]
• 2010: Allison Carey (graduate), Philip Gant (undergraduate), Lisa Marrone (undergraduate), Kirsten Weld (graduate)[23]
• 2011: Sarah Cameron, Rui Gao (graduate); Emily Sigman, Joshua Levin (undergraduate)[23]
• 2012: Helen Curry, Catherine McNeur (graduate); Amelia Urry, Matthew Joseph, Eric Morrison, Katherine Orazem (undergraduate)[23]
• 2013: Christine M. Delucia, Andrew Konove (graduate); Tom Stanley-Becker (undergraduate)[23]
• 2014: Brendan Lim, Brian Matthew Jordan (graduate); Jenna Cook, Elizabeth Mattison, Caitlin Radford (undergraduate)[26]
• 2015: ShawnaKim Lowey-Ball, Dana Graef (graduate); Tiraana Bains, Joshua Isackson (undergraduate)[27]

References

1. "Porter Prize". Yale University. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
2. Historical Register of Yale University, 1701-1937 (New Haven: Yale University, 1939), pp. 125-127.
3. Ladd, Henry Martin (1875). An Essay on the Madonna in Christian Art. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor.
4. James, Henry Ammon (1879). Communism in America. New York: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 0405099576.
5. "Yale's Closing Exercises: The Speaking Degrees, and Honors -- A Notable Alumni Dinner". New York Times. June 30, 1881.
6. "Close of College Days". New York Times. June 24, 1884.
7. Catalogue of Yale University CXCI Year, 1890-1891. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1890.
8. Catalogue of Yale University 1908-09. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. 1908.
9. Culbertson, William Smith (1911). Alexander Hamilton: an essay. New Haven: Yale University Press.
10. "Taft Commends Trust Decisions". New York Times. June 22, 1911.
11. Bulletin of the Archaeological Institute of America, vol. V (December 1914). New York: The MacMillan Company. 1914.
12. The Michigan Alumnus, Volume XXVI (October 1919-August 1920). Ann Arbor, MI: The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. 1920.
13. Germans in the Cameroons, 1884-1914, A Case Study in Modern Imperialism. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1938.
14. Historical Register of Yale University, 1937-1951 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), p. 80.
15. Historical Register of Yale University, 1951-1968 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969), pp. 96-97.
16. "Literary critic Harold Bloom awarded Gold Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters". Yale Bulletin and Calendar. 27:34 (1999). Check date values in: |date= (help)
17. "Stephen Holmes (CV)". New York University. Archived from the original on 22 September 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
18. Florencia Elizabeth Mallon Archived 2012-04-06 at the Wayback Machine, faculty page
19. Bonnie Goodman (December 17, 2007). "Timothy J. Naftali". History News Network. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
20. Archived 2012-04-30 at the Wayback Machine, faculty page
21. Jonathan Hay, faculty page
22. The Pale Cast of Thought: Hesitation and Decision in the Renaissance Epic. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses. 1998.
23. "Yale University, Office of the Secretary: Lectureships, Fellowships, & Prizes: Winners". Yale University. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
24. "2008 Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prizes". Yale University. May 28, 2008. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
25. "Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Commencement Convocation" (PDF). Yale University. May 24, 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 21, 2013. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
26. http://news.yale.edu/2014/05/22/winners-2014-porter-and-field-prizes-announced
27. "Winners of 2015 Porter and Field prizes announced". Yale News. May 19, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.

External links

• John Addison Porter Prize, official website.
• John Addison Porter Prize, prize description.