Named in honor of former NHC trustee John B. Hurford, the Hurford Family fellowship has been awarded annually since 2000. Twice the recipient of Fulbright Fellowships, John Hurford lectured and did research on economic development in New Delhi, India, before moving on to a career in finance. At the time of his death in 2000, John was a managing director of Credit Suisse Management and Warburg Pincus in New York as well as the chair of Haverford College’s Board of Managers. During his tenure, the college’s total endowment grew from less than $50 million to almost $300 million during this time, and many enhancements to the physical plant were undertaken.
| 2002–2003 | Susan F. Hirsch | Wesleyan University | The Embassy Bombings Reframed: Constructing Identities, Legal Meanings, and Justice |
| 2003–2004 | Jiyuan Hu | University at Buffalo, State University of New York | Comparing Virtues: Aristotle and Confucianism |
| 2004–2005 | Piotr Sommer | Independent scholar and poet | America as the New Center (Changes in the Concept of “the Native” vs. “the Foreign” in Polish Poetry after 1968) |
| 2005–2006 | David N. Cannadine | University of London | The Penguin History of Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| 2006–2007 | Catherine M. Cole | University of California, Santa Barbara | Stages of Transition: Performing South Africa’s Truth Commission |
| 2007–2008 | Judith Ann–Marie Byfield | Dartmouth College | “The Great Upheaval” –The Egba Women’s Tax Revolt: Gender and Nationalist Politics in Nigeria, 1945–1954 |
| 2008–2009 | Anupama Rao | Barnard College | Caste and the Colonial City: Dalit Life and Labor in Colonial Bombay |
| 2009–2010 | Rudiger Bittner | University of Bielefeld | Do We Have a Will? |
| 2010–2011 | Rebecca Walkowitz | Rutgers University | After the National Paradigm: Translation, Comparison, the New World Literature |
| 2011–2012 | Ellen McLarney | Duke University | Poetics of Islamic Politics: The Adab of Rights and Freedom |
| 2012–2013 | Carla Nappi | University of British Columbia | Illegible Cities: Translating Early Modern China |
| 2013–2014 | John N. Wall, Jr. | North Carolina State University | Hearing Donne: The Experience of Preaching in Early Modern London |
| 2014–2015 | Colleen Kriger | University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Life, Death, and Business on the Guinea Coast |
| 2015–2016 | Javier Villa–Flores | University of Illinois at Chicago | Perjurers, Impersonators, and Liars: Public Faith and the Dark Side of Trust in Eighteenth Century Mexico |
| 2016–2017 | Mary Floyd–Wilson | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | The Tempter or the Tempted: Demonic Causality on the Shakespearean Stage |
| 2017–2018 | John Garrigus | University of Texas at Arlington | “Macandal is Saved!”: Disease, Conspiracy, and the Coming of the Haitian Revolution |
| 2018–2019 | Gretchen Murphy | University of Texas at Austin | Disestablishing Virtue: Federalism, Religion, and New England Women Writers |
| 2019–2020 | Ann Weirda Rowland | University of Kansas | Reading Keats in America |
| 2020–2021 | Rivi Handler–Spitz | Macalester College | Contentious Conversations: Masters, Disciples, and the Culture of Yulu Literature in Late Ming China |
| 2021–2022 | Irus Braverman | State University of New York at Buffalo | Settling Nature: The Biopolitics of Conservation in Palestine/Israel |
| 2022–2023 | David Brakke | The Ohio State University | A Religion of the Books: The New Testament and Other Early Christian Scriptural Practices |
| 2023–2024 | Stella Nair | University of California, Los Angeles | Inca Architecture: Chapters in the History of a (Gendered) Profession |
| 2024–2025 | Mostafa Minawi | Cornell University | Ottoman-Ethiopian Relations and the Geopolitics of Imperialism in the Red Sea Basin and the Horn of Africa at the End of the 19th Century |