Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies

Established in 1975 to recognize superior humanistic scholarship and renamed in 2017, the Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies complements the Emerson-Thoreau Medal for achievement in literature.

Recipients

2023

Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York University, for his contributions in the areas of philosophy, political theory, and cultural criticism.
Award press release
Honoree introduction and remarks

2021

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, and cultural critic.
Award press release

2017

Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher, classicist, political theorist, and public intellectual
Award press release
Honoree introduction and remarks

2013

Denis Donoghue, literary critic, essayist, memoirist, and teacher.

Helen Vendler, literary critic, scholar, and teacher.

1993

Jean-Pierre Vernant, literary critic and scholar of Greek myths.

1984

Meyer Abrams, scholar, editor, and literary critic.

1977

Kenneth Burke, literary critic and theorist.