Gildersleeve Prize

The Gildersleeve Prize is an annual award of $1,000 to the author of "the best article of the year" published in the American Journal of Philology. It is awarded by The Johns Hopkins University Press and is named after the classical scholar Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve who founded the journal.[1] As of 2019, the prize is named the "AJP Best Article Prize."[2]

Previous winners are:

Year Author Article
1997 Carol Poster[1]
1998 Ruth Scodel Bardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer[3]
1999 Lisa Kallet[1]
2000 William A. Johnson Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity[4]
2001 Stephen M. Beall[1]
2002 Zachary P. Biles Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes[5]
2003 Gwendolyn Compton-Engle[1]
2004 Kathryn Gutzwiller Seeing Thought: Timomachus' Medea and Ecphrastic Epigram[6]
2005 Charles C. Chiasson Myth, Ritual, and Authorial Control in Herodotus' Story of Cleobis and Biton (Hist. 1.31)[7]
2006 David Sider[1] The New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy
2007 Timothy O'Sullivan[8]
2008 Judith Fletcher A Trickster's Oath in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes[9]
2009 Randy Pogorzelski The Reassurance of Fratricide in the Aeneid[10]
2010 Michael Squire Making Myron's Cow Moo? Ecphrastic Epigram and the Poetics of Simulation[11]
2011
2012 Rachel Ahern Knudsen Poetic Speakers, Sophistic Words[12]
2013 James E. G. Zetzel A Contract on Ameria: Law and Legality in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino[13]
2014 William Josiah Edwards Davis Terence Interrupted: Literary Biography and the Reception of the Terentian Canon[14]
2015 Matt Cohn Timokles Satyrographos and the Abusive Satyr Play[15]
2016

References
  1. "The Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Prize 2008 Award". American Journal of Philology. pp. iv–iv. doi:10.1353/ajp.0.0032.
  2. "New Beginnings". American Journal of Philology. 140 (3): iii–iii. 2019. doi:10.1353/ajp.2019.0035. ISSN 1086-3168.
  3. Hansen, Marie R. "The Gildersleeve Prize For The Best Article Published In The American Journal of Philology In 1998 Has Been Presented To Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan". American Journal of Philology. doi:10.1353/ajp.1999.0035.
  4. "Gildersleeve Prize (2000). American Journal of Philology (best article of the year). | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu.
  5. "The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2002". American Journal of Philology. 29 September 2003. pp. viii–viii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2003.0041.
  6. Breichner, William M. (5 October 2005). "The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2004". American Journal of Philology. pp. iii–iii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2005.0037.
  7. "The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2005". American Journal of Philology. pp. iii–iii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2006.0034.
  8. Breichner, William M. (2008). "The Gildersleeve Prize for the Best Article Published in the American Journal of Philology in 2007 Has Been Presented to Timothy M. O'Sullivan". American Journal of Philology. pp. iii–iii.
  9. Breichner, William M. (19 September 2009). "The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2008". American Journal of Philology. pp. iii–iii. doi:10.1353/ajp.0.0072.
  10. "Comparative Literature, Winter 2011" (PDF). University of Santa Barbara. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  11. "The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2010". American Journal of Philology. 29 September 2011. pp. iii–iii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2011.0025.
  12. Breichner, William M. (18 September 2013). "The Gildersleeve Prize for the Best Article Published in the American Journal of Philology in 2012 has been Presented to Rachel Ahern Knudsen, University of Oklahoma". American Journal of Philology. pp. iii–iii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2013.0029.
  13. Breichner, William M. (18 September 2014). "The Gildersleeve Prize for the Best Article Published in the American Journal of Philology in 2013 Has Been Presented to James E. G. Zetzel Columbia University". American Journal of Philology. pp. i–i. doi:10.1353/ajp.2014.0034.
  14. Breichner, William M. (21 September 2015). "The Gildersleeve Prize for the Best Article Published in the American Journal of Philology in 2014 Has Been Presented to: William Josiah Edwards Davis, University of Toronto Faculty of Law". American Journal of Philology. pp. 1–1. doi:10.1353/ajp.2015.0015.
  15. Breichner, William M. (25 August 2016). "Announcement: The Gildersleeve Prize Winner for 2015". American Journal of Philology. pp. viii–viii. doi:10.1353/ajp.2016.0031.


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