| 2026 | Winner | The World of Homer: Archaeology, Social Memory, and the Emergence of Greek Epic Poetry | Michael B. Cosmopoulos | Cambridge University Press |
| 2025 | Winner | A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic | W. Jeffrey Tatum | Oxford University Press |
| 2024 | Winner | Between Sahara and Sea: Africa in the Roman Empire | David J. Mattingly | University of Michigan Press |
| 2023 | Winner | Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity | Sarah F. Derbew | Cambridge University Press |
| 2022 | Winner | Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama | Nancy Worman | Bloomsbury |
| 2021 | Winner | Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture | Reviel Netz | Cambridge University Press |
| 2020 | Winner | Pindar, Song and Space: Towards a Lyric Archaeology | Richard Neer, Leslie Kurke | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2019 | Winner | Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from Its Origins to the Fifth Century | Richard Hingley | Bloomsbury |
| 2018 | Winner | Classics from Papyrus to the Internet: An Introduction to Transmission and Reception | Jeffrey M. Hunt, R. Alden Smith, Fabio Stok | University of Texas Press |
| 2018 | Honorable mention | The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire | Kyle Harper | Princeton University Press |
| 2017 | Winner | Democracy: A Life | Paul Cartledge | Oxford University Press |
| 2017 | Honorable mention | Learning Latin in the Ancient Way | Eleanor Dickey | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Winner | The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present | Tod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn | Victoria Rimell | Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Honorable mention | The Museum of Augustus: The Temple of Apollo in Pompeii, the Portico of Philippus in Rome, and Latin Poetry | Peter Heslin | Getty Publications |
| 2015 | Winner | The Material Life of Roman Slaves | Sandra R. Joshel, Lauren Hackworth Petersen | Cambridge University Press |
| 2015 | Honorable mention | Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian | William Horbury | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Winner | Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature | Johannes Haubold | Cambridge University Press |
| 2013 | Honorable mention | The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire | Susan P. Mattern | Oxford University Press |
| 2012 | Winner | Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD | Peter Brown | Princeton University Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Alexander's Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors | Joseph Roisman | University of Texas Press |
| 2012 | Honorable mention | Constantine, Divine Emperor | Jonathan Bardill | Cambridge University Press |
| 2008 | Winner | Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical | Josiah Ober | Princeton University Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | A Companion to Classical Receptions | Lorna Hardwick, Christopher Stray | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | Alcman & the Cosmos of Sparta | Gloria Ferrari | University of Chicago Press |
| 2008 | Honorable mention | The Color of Life | Roberta Panzinelli, Eike Schmidt, Kenneth Lapatin | Getty Publications |
| 2007 | Winner | Portrait of a Priestess | Joan Breton Connelly | Princeton University Press |
| 2007 | Honorable mention | Martial: The World of the Epigram | William Fitzgerald | University of Chicago Press |
| 2006 | Winner | Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words | Andrew M. Riggsby | University of Texas Press |
| 2006 | Honorable mention | A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450) | Fergus Millar | University of California Press |
| 2005 | Winner | The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order | Thomas Habinek | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 2004 | Winner | The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis II: The Classical Building | William B. Dinsmoor, William B. Dinsmoor Jr., Edited by Anastasia Norre Dinsmoor | American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
| 2004 | Honorable mention | Late Roman Spain and Its Cities | Michael Kulikowski | Johns Hopkins University Press |