2007

January     Matthew A. Thurlow, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Competing Scrolls and Cabrioles: Stiff

               Competition in the New York Furniture Trade, 1825 - 1850.
                                

February    Dr. Ulrich Leben, Waddeston Manor, Buckinghamshire, England, European Precedents for American Veneer

                and Inlay Work.
                                                               

March       Karina Corrigan, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, The Other Asian Exports: Indian Textiles and Luxury

               Goods in America. 
                              

April         Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of

               the Aesthetic Movement.
                           

May          Derek E. Ostergard, New York, NY, On the Playing Fields of Privilege: The Residential Work of Delano and 

               Aldrich, 1903 – 1940.               
                                 

June         Marc Simpson, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, The Clark Brothers as Collectors

               of John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer. 
                                                           

July          Christine Thompson, Conservator, Salem, MA, Understanding the Midas Touch: Gilding Through the Centuries
                                 

August      Linda Eaton, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE, Quilts in a Material World: Selections From the

                Winterthur Collection.
                                  

September Annette Blaugrund, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, New York’s Tenth Street Studio Building: A

                Fraternity of Artist-Entrepreneurs.
                                                          

October     Amelia Peck, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, New Perspectives on Old Rooms: The

                Reinstallation of the 18th Century Period Rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
                                 

November  Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 'A Grand and Elegant House and

                Furniture': Furnishing the Cadwalader’s Philadelphia House, 1770 – 1775.
                                 
December   Ann Wagner, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE, Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney

                 Gardiner.

2008
January      Dean Lahikainen, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style.
                          

February    Susan Schoelwer, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT, Connecticut Furniture: Quirky Delights from                  the Land of Steady Habits.                                 
                     

March        Michael Weller, San Francisco, CA, American Money.
                                                 
April         Clark Pearce, Essex, MA, Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Furniture of Nathan Lombard. 
                        
May         Michael F. Crowe and Therese Poletti, San Francisco, CA, Timothy Pflueger: San  Francisco's Art Deco 

               Renaissance Man.
                                                      
June         Joseph Cunningham, ADA 1900 Foundation Collection, New York, NY, Was Gustav Stickley a Modernist? New 

               Views in Early Experimental Masterworks. 
                        
July         David Schorsch, Woodbury, CT, From Rooftops to the Stratosphere: ‘Appreciating’ American Weathervanes.
                                                        
August     Peter Deen, Nottingham, PA, When Surface is Everything: Judging the Paint. 
                         
September Jean M. Burks, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT,Out of this World: Shaker Design Past, Present & Future. 
                                                          
October    Dr. Martin Eidelberg, New York, NY, Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls. 
                          
November Jared Goss, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, From Empress Eugenie to the Prince of Chintz:  A

               Short History of Furnishing With Antiques. 
                              
December  Katherine C. Grier, Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, DE, Pets in America:Their History Through Portraits

                and Possessions.