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C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

The George Washington Prize jury includes leading historians of the Revolutionary War and the early Republic.

2018 Denver Brunsman, Jury Chair, George Washington University Flora Fraser, Independent author Peter Onuf, University of Virginia, Emeritus 2017Nick Bunker, Independent Author Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina David Preston, Jury Chair, The Citadel, The Military School of South Carolina

2016 Sean Wilentz, Jury Chair, Princeton University Libby O’Connell, author/historian James Kirby Martin, University of Houston

2015 Rosemarie Zagarri, Jury Chair, George Mason University Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University Ted Widmer, author/historian

2014 Gordon S. Wood, Jury Chair, Brown University, Emeritus Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles, Emerita Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University

2013 Carol Berkin, Chair, Baruch College, Emerita and City University of New York Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dartmouth College Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia

2012 Richard Beeman, Chair, University of Pennsylvania, Emeritus Thomas Fleming, author/historian Marla R. Miller, University of Massachucetts

2011 Mary Beth Norton, Chair, Cornell University. Daniel Walker Howe, UCLA and Oxford University, Emeritus David Armitage, Harvard University

2010 Theodore J. Crackel, author/historian Catherine Allgor, University of California, Riverside Andrew Cayton, Miami University, Ohio

2009 Joyce Appleby, Chair, University of California, Los Angeles, Emerita  Ira Berlin, University of Maryland  Jay Winik, author/public historian

2008 Robert L. Middlekauff, Chair, University of California, Berkeley, Emeritus Elizabeth A. Fenn, Chair, University of Colorado Boulder Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy, University of Virginia 2007 Richard Lyman Bushman, Chair, Columbia University, Emeritus Theodore J. Crackel, author/historian Pauline Maier

2006 Gordon S. Wood, Chair, Brown University, Emeritus Carol Berkin, Chair, Baruch College, Emerita and City University of New York Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute

2005 Don Higginbotham Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University Barbara Oberg, Princeton University