Recipients of Distinguished Scholar Award:

Recipients of Donald E. Pitzer Distinguished Service Award:

Recipients of Starting Scholar Awards:
Renamed the Donald Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award in 2005:

1995: Elizabeth A. DeWolfe - "Weapons of Zion: Tales of Woe as a
          Source of Shaker Strength"
1996: Brad Whitsel - "Taking Shelter from the Coming Storm: The
          Milliennial Impulse of the Church Universal and Triumphant"
1997: Sora Friedman - "No Place Like Home: The Settling of Jersey
          Homesteads, New Jersey"
1999: Peter Hoehnle - "Communal Bonds: Contact Between the Amana
          Society and Other Communal Groups, 1843-1932"
2000: Dierdre Hughes - "The World of Poor Eve:  Re-defining Women's
          Roles in Nineteenth Century Utopian Communities"
2001: Tim Hodgdon - "'The Male Work Ethic was Busted': Manhood,
          Feminism, and the Sexual Division of Labor at Black Bear Ranch,
          1968-1974"
2002: Neva Jean Specht - "'Constrained to Afford Them Countenance
          and Protection': The Role of the Philadelphia Friends in the
          Settlement of Separatists of Zoar"
2003: No award given
2004: Laurie Rivlin Heller - "The More Philosophy of Victor Baranco and
          the Institute of Human Abilities"
2005: Erika Doot - "Heritage Tourism and Identity Transformation
         in the Amana Colonies"
2006: Michelle Smith - "Painting the Living Scenery of Amana:  A
          Case Study of the Rhetoric of Containment"
2008: Kathryn Turner, "Becoming “Two-in-One”: Imaginary Space and Androgyny in Koreshan Universology"
2009: David Swartz – “The Third Way:  The Politics of Spiritual Community in the Evangelical Left”

Recipients of Starting Scholar Honorable Mention:

1995: Victoria Lock - "The Landscape of the Inspirationists: Discovering
          a Sense of Place"
1996: Scott Walter - "A Measure of the Life of the Community:
          Educational Reform and Communitarian Experiment at Brook
          Farm"
1997: Anne Schaper Englot-"Gendered Utopia: An Architectural
          Analysis of Jemima Wilkinson's Pioneer Settlement"
2004: Theodore Kallman - "The Pilgrimage of Ralph Albertson"

Recipient of Outstanding Project Award:

2000: Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,
          D.C. exhibit - "Shaker: Furnishings for the Simple Life"
2001: The Rapp Granary Owen Foundation for restoration of the 1818
          Rapp Granary in New Harmony, Indiana
2002: Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California exhibit -
          "Utopia Now! (and Then)"
2003: Geoph Kozeny, "Visions of Utopia; Experiments in Sustainable
          Culture," video
2004: ic.org Web Weavers (Jillian Downey, Elph Morgan, and Michael
          McIntyre)
2005: Christian Goodwillie - 2004 exhibit "With Hands to Work and
          Hearts to God:  The Arts and Crafts of America's Communal
          Utopias"
2006: William Albert Allard's "Hutterite Sojourn,"
          National Geographic.com
2008: Koreshan State Historic Site: Renovation of Art All and Founder's Home Sitting Room Exhibition

Recipient of Outstanding Publication Award:

2001: Laura Wilson - - Hutterites of Montana.  Yale University Press
2002: Steven D. Reschly - The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840-1910. 
          John Hopkins University Press
2003: Elizabeth De Wolfe - Shaking the Faith:  Women, Family, and Mary
          Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867, Palgrave Press
2004: Kathleen Fernandez - A Singular People:  Images of Zoar, Kent
          State University Press
2004: Rod Janzen - The Rise and Fall of Synanon: A California Utopia,
           Johns Hopkins University Press
2005: Jeffrey Bach - Voices of the Turtledoves:  The Sacred World of
          Ephrata
2006: Glendyne R. Wergland - One Shaker Life: Isaac Newton Youngs,
          1793-1865
2007: M. Stephen Miller – “Of Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands”
2009: James Kopp – “Eden Within Eden:  Oregon’s Utopian Heritage”
         (joint) Tim Hodgdon – “Manhood in the Age of Aquarius”