The GlaxoSmithKline Senior Fellowship was endowed by the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation and has been awarded annually to senior scholars from several disciplines, including postcolonial studies, philosophy, and art history, since 2001.
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization that supports activities that help meet the educational and health needs of today’s society and future generations. For decades, the Foundation has been a supporter of programs in North Carolina that help advance science, health, and education.
| 2001–2002 | Lewis Dabney | University of Wyoming | Edmund Wilson, American: A Life and an Age in Literature |
| 2002–2003 | Helen Solterer | Duke University | Playing the Dead: Theatrical Revivals of the Medieval Past in Modern-Day France |
| 2003–2004 | Frances Ferguson | Johns Hopkins University | Childhood and Citizenship in Political Liberalism |
| 2004–2005 | Gregg A. Mitman | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Breathing Space: An Ecological History of Allergy in America |
| 2005–2006 | Linda Colley | Princeton University | The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Global History |
| 2006–2007 | David X. Carrier | Case Western Reserve University | A Multicultural Art History |
| 2007–2008 | Terence E. Smith | University of Pittsburgh | Becoming Contemporary: The Art History of an Idea |
| 2008–2009 | Carol Clover | University of California, Berkeley | The People’s Plot: Trials, Movies, and the Adversarial Imagination |
| 2009–2010 | Ruth Chang | Rutgers University | Making It Matter |
| 2010–2011 | James Engell | Harvard University | Coleridge, A Divided Life Reconciled |
| 2011–2012 | Richard Werbner | University of Manchester | Occult Subjectivities, Practical Rhetoric: Divination and the Moral Imagination |
| 2012–2013 | Ian Proops | University of Texas at Austin | Reason’s Fiery Critique: Kant and Rational Metaphysics |
| 2013–2014 | Elizabeth Krause | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Tight Knit: Familistic Encounters in a Transnational Fast-Fashion Zone |
| 2014–2015 | Gordon Teskey | Harvard University | A New Theory of Shakespearean Mimesis |
| 2015–2016 | James Hevia | University of Chicago | Animal Labor and Colonial Warfare |
| 2016–2017 | Zsusanna Gulásci | Northern Arizona University | Artistic Culture of Religious Instruction Along the Trade Routes of Late Ancient and Medieval Asia |
| 2017–2018 | Nancy Hirschmann | University of Pennsylvania | Freedom, Power, and Disability |
| 2018–2019 | Ricardo Salles | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | The Ancient Stoic Proofs of the Intelligence of the Cosmos and Their Platonic Background |
| 2019–2020 | Ian Burney | University of Manchester | A History of Innocence: Erle Stanley Gardner, the Court of Last Resort, and the Pursuit of Wrongful Conviction in Cold War America |
| 2020–2021 | Martin Munro | Florida State University | Listening to the Caribbean: Sounds of Slavery, Resistance, and Freedom |
| 2021–2022 | Gregory Fernando Pappas | Texas A&M University | Injustice: An Inter-American and Community of Inquiry Approach |
| 2022–2023 | Héctor Pérez-Brignoli | Universidad de Costa Rica | Rebellious People: Patterns of Social Revolt and Collective Violence in Central America, 1920–1954 |
| 2023–2024 | Sally E. Hadden | Western Michigan University | One Supreme Court |
| 2024–2025 | Amy Lonetree | University of California, Santa Cruz | Visualizing Native American Survivance: A Photographic History of the Ho-Chunk Nation, 1879–1960 |