The Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) sorority endowed two fellowships at the Center in 1988. The Delta Delta Delta fellowships are awarded annually to scholars affiliated with college and university campuses where active Tri Delta chapters exist.
The Tri Delta sorority was founded by Sarah Ida Shaw in 1888 at Boston University. There were few women’s organizations in existence and Shaw never found a fit amongst those organizations. As a senior, she recognized the need for a place where women could belong. With her friend, Eleanor Dorcas Pond, she created an organization with the conviction that the women would be kind to all and focus on a woman’s inner character. Today, Tri Delta has initiated more than 320,000 women with more than 140 collegiate chapters across North America.
| 1988–1989 | Jaroslav Folda | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | The Art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land: 1187–1291 |
| 1988–1989 | Michael White | Arizona State University | The Physical World: Three Hellenistic Models |
| 1989–1990 | Thomas Metcalf | University of California, Berkeley | Ideologies of the Raj, 1860–1920 |
| 1989–1990 | Barbara Metcalf | University of California, Davis | The Pilgrimage Remembered: South Asian Accounts of the Hajj |
| 1990–1991 | Linda Kerber | University of Iowa | Women and the Obligations of Citizenship: The Gendered Discourse of American Law |
| 1990–1991 | Steven R. Goldsmith | University of California, Berkeley | Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse, Discourse, Romanticism |
| 1991–1992 | James McCann | Boston University | People of the Plow: A Modern History of Ethiopian Agriculture |
| 1991–1992 | Linda Peck | Purdue University | Britain in the Age of the Baroque |
| 1992–1993 | Eleanor Leach | Indiana University, Bloomington | Roman Painting and Roman Society |
| 1992–1993 | Barry Schwartz | University of Georgia | Now He Belongs to the Ages: Lincoln in Collective Memory |
| 1993–1994 | Alan S. Taylor | Boston University | William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Early American Frontier |
| 1993–1994 | Edna G. Bay | Emory University | Women and Power in Dahomey (West Africa) |
| 1994–1995 | Sarah T. Beckwith | University of Pittsburgh | Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York’s Play of Corpus Christi |
| 1994–1995 | Mary E. Barnard | Pennsylvania State University | The Gods in Garcilaso de la Vega: Renaissance Rewritings of Pagan Myths |
| 1995–1996 | Arleen Tuchman | Vanderbilt University | Against Sentimentality: The Life and Work of Marie E. Zakrzewska |
| 1995–1996 | Sally Haslanger | University of Michigan | Rebuilding the World: Ontology and Social Construction |
| 1996–1997 | Jane M. Gaines | Duke University | Other/Race/Desire: Early Cinema and Nationhood |
| 1996–1997 | Joy Kasson | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show: History, Performance, and Cultural Identity |
| 1997–1998 | Barbara Hanawalt | University of Minnesota | Women in Medieval London |
| 1997–1998 | Ronald Giere | University of Minnesota | Perspectival Realism |
| 1998–1999 | Melissa Bullard | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Letters of Lorenzo de’Medici and the Language of Diplomacy in the Renaissance |
| 1998–1999 | Sharon Strocchia | Emory University | Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence |
| 1999–2000 | Michelle Massé | Louisiana State University | The Mirror of Fashion: Critical Expectations and the Work of Louisa May Alcott |
| 1999–2000 | Marjorie Woods | University of Texas at Austin | Rhetoric in the Medieval Classroom |
| 2000–2001 | Jeremy Popkin | University of Kentucky | History, Historians and Autobiography |
| 2000–2001 | Martha Vicinus | University of Michigan | Romantic Friendships: Modern Lesbian Identities, 1800–1930 |
| 2001–2002 | Luis Corteguera | University of Kansas | Before God and King: Ordinary People in Politics in Early Modern Spain |
| 2001–2002 | Kristin Hanson | University of California, Berkeley | An Art that Nature Makes: A Linguistic Perspective on Meter in English |
| 2002–2003 | Grace Hale | University of Virginia | Rebel, Rebel: Outsiders in America, 1945–2000 |
| 2002–2003 | Sigrun Svarvarsdottir | Ohio State University | Value Concepts and Objectivity |
| 2003–2004 | Ann Margaret Baxley | Virginia Tech | Kant’s Theory of Virtue: The Importance of Autocracy |
| 2003–2004 | Anne Williams | University of Georgia | Monstrous Pleasures: Gothic Operas from Horace Walpole to Horror Movies |
| 2004–2005 | Mary Favret | Indiana University, Bloomington | Invisible Violence: Wartime in British Romanticism |
| 2004–2005 | Andrew Miller | Indiana University, Bloomington | Improving Occasions |
| 2005–2006 | Mark Maslan | University of California, Santa Barbara | False Lives: Biographical Fraud and Contemporary Fiction |
| 2005–2006 | Madeleine Zilfi | University of Maryland | Slavery and Society in the Late Ottoman Middle East |
| 2006–2007 | Daniel Conway | Pennsylvania State University | Kierkegaard’s Modernity |
| 2006–2007 | Sarah Shields | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Fezzes in the River: Creating and Contesting Identities in Alexandretta |
| 2007–2008 | Su Fang Ng | University of Oklahoma | Global Renaissance: Early Modern Classicism and Empire |
| 2007–2008 | Nancy Warren | Florida State University | The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1450–1700 |
| 2008–2009 | Kathleen DuVal | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Revolution Without Rebels: The Battle of Pensacola and the War for America |
| 2008–2009 | Elizabeth Payne | University of Mississippi | Shattering White Solidarity: A History of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union |
| 2009–2010 | John Hanson | Indiana University, Bloomington | Islam, Schooling and the Public Sphere: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana, West Africa |
| 2009–2010 | Thomas Lekan | University of South Carolina | Green Tourism: Consumption and Conservation in Twentieth-Century Germany |
| 2010–2011 | Gerard Passannante | University of Maryland | (1) Earthquakes of the Mind (2) The Physics of Thought |
| 2010–2011 | Leah Rosenberg | University of Florida | Contested Possessions: Tourism and thre Representation of Caribbean Folk Culture |
| 2011–2012 | Matthew S. Gordon | Miami University | Singers and Soldiers: Slavery and Slave Households of the 9th Century Abbasid Empire |
| 2011–2012 | Paul Losensky | Indiana University, Bloomington | Sa’eb Tabrizi and the Poetics of Effulgence |
| 2012–2013 | Randolph Clarke | Florida State University | Agency, Free Will, Moral Responsibility |
| 2012–2013 | Craige Roberts | Ohio State University | Content in Context: Interpreting Definite Noun Phrases |
| 2013–2014 | Nora Fisher-Onar | Bahçeşehir University, Turkey | Post-Western Liberalism(s): Sources and Patterns from Istanbul to Beijing |
| 2013–2014 | Michael Puri | University of Virginia | Ravel the Cosmopolitan |
| 2014–2015 | Ann G. Gold | Syracuse University | Shiptown: North Indian Lives between Rural and Urban |
| 2014–2015 | John Willis | University of Colorado, Boulder | After the Caliphate: Mecca and the Geography of Crisis and Hope |
| 2015–2016 | Thomas Brown | University of South Carolina | The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War |
| 2015–2016 | Akinwumi Ogundiran | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Cultural History of the Atlantic Experience in the Yoruba Hinterland (West Africa), ca. 1550–1830 |
| 2016–2017 | Benjamin Kahan | Louisiana State University | Sexual Etiologies and the Great Paradigm Shift |
| 2016–2017 | Richard Turits | College of William & Mary | New World of Color: Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo and the Atlantic World |
| 2017–2018 | Todd Ochoa | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Conjecture for a Bembe: Religious Recombination in the Black Atlantic |
| 2017–2018 | Hollis Robbins | Johns Hopkins University | Forms of Contention: The African American Sonnet Tradition |
| 2018–2019 | James Chappel | Duke University | Old Volk: The Invention of Old Age in a Global Germany |
| 2018–2019 | Frances Hasso | Duke University | Palestinian Perinatal and Young Child Death During the British Mandate |
| 2019–2020 | Chérie Ndaliko | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Archival Mutations: Decomposing Aesthetics of Atrocity in Congo |
| 2019–2020 | Angela Steusse | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | #FreeDany: Dreaming and Detention in Dixie |
| 2020–2021 | Emily Baragwanath | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Xenophon’s Women |
| 2020–2021 | Molly Worthen | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Spellbound Nation: Charisma in American History |
| 2021–2022 | Mark Evan Bonds | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Music’s Fourth Wall and the Rise of Modern Listening |
| 2021–2022 | Samantha Pinto | The University of Texas at Austin | Under the Skin |
| 2022–2023 | Amy Louise Wood | Illinois State University | Sympathy for the Devil: The Criminal in the American Imagination, 1870–1940 |
| 2023–2024 | Rebecca Maloy | University of Notre Dame | Sounding the Saints in Early Medieval Iberia |
| 2024–2025 | R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El Salvador |