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 2018, the prize was renamed the AJP Best Article Prize.[2]
Previous winners are:
| Year | Author | Article | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Carol Poster | ||
| 1998 | Ruth Scodel | Bardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer[3] | |
| 1999 | Lisa Kallet | ||
| 2000 | William A. Johnson | Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity[4] | |
| 2001 | Stephen M. Beall | ||
| 2002 | Zachary P. Biles | Intertextual Biography in the Rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes[5] | |
| 2003 | Gwendolyn Compton-Engle | ||
| 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 | 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 | |||
| 2017 | Max Leventhal | Eratosthenes’ Letter to Ptolemy: The Literary Mechanics of Empire[16] | |
| 2018 | Christopher B. Krebs | The World’s Measure: Caesar’s Geographies of Gallia and Britannia in Their Contexts and as Evidence of His World Map[17] | |
| 2019 | Ella Haselswerdt | Sound and the Sublime in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus: The Limits of Representation[18] | |
| 2020 | James Uden | The Margins of Satire: Suetonius, Satura, and Scholarly Outsiders in Ancient Rome[19] | |
| 2021 | Erika Valdivieso | Dissecting a Forgery[20] | |
| 2022 | Rosa Andújar | Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s La Odilea[21] |