Past Recipients
2025 Judy Whipps, “Mary McLeod Bethune: Women-centered Black Activism”
2024 Michaila Peters, “Weaving Peace in Rural America: Jane Addams’ Participatory Path Beyond Poverty-Driven Political Conflict”
2023 Mariana Alessandri, “Anger in a Perilous Environment: Maria Lugones”
2022 Erin Tarver, “Women’s Basketball as Democratic Practice: Addams on Recreation and Sport”
2021 Parysa Mostajir, “Conjoint Communicated Experience: Art as an Instrument of Democracy”
2020 Tess Varner “Transformative Hospitality: A Pragmatist-Feminist Perspective on Radical Welcome as Resistance”
2019 Danielle Lake, “Pragmatist Feminism as Philosophic-Activism: The {R}evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
2018 Christopher Tirres, “Spiritual Activism and Praxis: Assessing Gloria Anzaldúa’s Light In The Dark/luz En Lo Oscuro”
2017 Shireen Roshanravan “Asian American Feminist Visibility and the Coalitional Imperative”
2016 Margaret Newton, “Philosophical, Existential Letter Writing: A Look at SorJuana Ines De La Cruz’s ‘Reply’ and Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘Speaking in Tongues’”
2015 Marilyn Fischer, “A Pluralistic Universe in Twenty Years”
2014 Danielle Lake “Jane Addams and Wicked Problems: Putting the Pragmatic Method to Use”
2013 Denise James, “Reading Anna J. Cooper with William James: Black Feminist Visionary Pragmatism, Philosophy’s Culture of Justification, and Belief”
2012 Carol Hay, “Justice and Objectivity for Pragmatists: Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Martha Nussbaum and Jane Addams”
2011 John Kaag, “Narrative and Moral Psychology in the Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot”
2010 Amrita Banerjee, “Reorienting the Ethics of Transnational Surrogacy as a Feminist Pragmatist”
2009 Maurice Hamington, “Feminist Prophetic Pragmatism”
2008 Barbara Lowe, “Receptive Perception, Particularized Justice, and Aesthetic Moral Agency”