2012: Rachel Scheinerman (Yale University)
"'The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah': Jewish and Christian Messianic Interpretation of Genesis 49:10"

2011: Mark Beitman (University of Chicago School of Divinity)
“Crisis and Mystical Creativity: Three Perspectives”

2010: Devorah Shubowitz (Indiana University)
"How women have sought to become part of the rabbinic debate in traditional Judaism"

2009: Amitai Bin-Nun

2008: Ingrid Anderson (Boston University)
"Leo Strauss, political theory and Judaism"

2007: Arie Dubnow (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Isaiah Berlin, nationalism and liberalism"

2006: Rebecca Scharbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"To dwell in dignity: Maimonides on sense perception"

2005: Doron Shultziner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"A Jewish Conception of Human Dignity”

2004: Aaron Hughes (University of Calgary)
"The Hermeneutics of Ocular Desire: Imagination and Aesthetics in the Dialoghi d'Amore."