Presented to an undergraduate or graduate level student for the best research paper in the field of automotive history.

2011

Andrew Jennings Mabon, "The Automobile, the Interstate and Suburbanites"

2009

"Sit-Down Women: Gender and the 1936-7 General Motors Strike in Flint, Michigan" by Ted R. Mitchell, Michigan State University.

2008

"Consumers, Cadillacs, and Civil Rights: The Social and Cultural Impact of the Automobile in Ebony, 1945-1965" by Peter S. Cajka, University of Dayton.

2007

"The Development of the Garage in Rural Belgian Flanders," by Els De Vos.

2006

"General Motors: Innovations in American Social Class Structure," by Katherine Anne Mechler, University of Dallas.

2005

"The Fast and the Furious: The Victoria Police and Changing Definitions of Speed and Speeding 1900-1930," by E. Rick Clapton, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Award of Distinction - "History of Chicago's Motor Row," by David M. Kerr, Loyola University.

2004

"Eve's Conquest of the Steering Wheel: Gender and the Automobile in Interwar France," by Adam C. Stanley, Purdue University.

2003*

Graduate Level

"Mini: The Creation of a Culture Icon," by Dean C. Ruffilli, University of Western Ontario.

Undergraduate Level

"Scooters in America: The Future is the Past," by Owen Thomas McDonough, College of William and Mary.

2002

No award

2001

"Driving the Dream," by Jameson M. Wetmore, Cornell University.

*(Separate Graduate and Undergraduate level awards were instituted beginning in 2003)