Semple, Grant, & Benario Previous Recipients

2022 Winners

  • Semple Award: Kelly Powers (Florida State University)
  • Grant Award: Bryan Gosciminski (Tulane University, LA)
  • Benario Award: Mary Beinemann (Saint Thomas' Episcopal School, TX) to attend the Paideia Institute: Living Latin in Rome
  • Benario Award: Gwendolyn Gibbons (Indiana University) to attend Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Summer Lexicography Workshop
  • Benario Award: Eric Hensley (University of Wisconsin) to attend HERC: The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros

2021 Winners

  • Grant Award: Irene Elias (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Grant Award: Dominica Rollins (Case Western Reserve University, OH)
  • Benario Award: Luke Madson (Rutgers University, NJ) to attend the Gennadius Library Medieval Greek Summer Session
  • Benario Award: Vittorio Bottini (University of Toronto, ON) to attend London International Paleography Summer School
  • Benario Award: Melissa Ludke (Florida State University) to attend American Numismatic Society Eric P. Newman Graduate Seminar in Numismatics

2020 winners

  • Semple Award: Alexandra Stephens (Florida State University)
  • Grant Award: Samantha Beecher (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Benario Award: Grace Funsten (University of Washington) to attend the American Academy in Rome Latin Epigraphy Program
  • Benario Award: Chris Mural (Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL) to attend a Vergilian Society Tour: Greeks and Romans on the Bay of Naples

2019 winners

  • Semple Award: Eduardo M. García-Molina (University of Chicago)
  • Grant Award: Michelle Martinez (Walnut Hills High School OH)
  • Benario Award: Maria Marable (Meigs Magnet School TN) to attend a Vergilian Society Tour
  • Benario Award: Nicholas Bolig (University of Kansas) to attend an ASCSA Summer Seminar
  • Benario Award: Jessie Craft (Ronald W. Reagan High School NC) to attend Scholae Aestivae in Italia

2018 winners

  • Semple Award: Christopher Wood (University of Texas at Austin)
  • Grant Award: Lindsey Hullinger (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
  • Benario Award: Gabrielle Bouzigard (University of Texas at Austin)

2017 winners

  • Semple Award: Molly Harris (University of Wisconsin-Madison) to attend the Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Michael Tae Woo (University of Kansas) to attend the Summer School at the American Academy in Rome
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award:
    Andrew Carroll (Regis Jesuit High School, Denver, CO) to attend Skills in Archaeology: AAR/Gabii Summer Program in Digital Documentation of Archaeological Collections Sarah Hilker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to attend the British School at Athens: Postgraduate Course in Linear B & Mycenean Greek. 

2016 winners

  • Semple Award: Richard Zaleski (University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois) to attend the Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Tara Ligon (Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio) to attend the Summer School at the American Academy in Rome
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: April Spratley (Smithfield High School in Smithfield, Virginia) to attend the Symposium Cumaeum.

2015 winners

  • Semple Award: Cynthia Swanson  Lauren S. Rogers (Frederica Academy in Simons Island, Georgia) to attend the Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • Mary A. Grant AwardJohn McCluskey (Fenwick High Schook in Chicago, Illinois) to attend the Summer School at the American Academy in Rome
  • Janice and Herbert Benario AwardStacy Kenkeremath (Hayfield Secondary School, Alexandria, Virginia to attend the Vergilian Society Tour entitled "Tunisia: Journey to a Magical Land"

2014 winners

  • Semple Award: Lauren S. Rogers (Salem Academy, North Carolina) to attend the Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Rachael Cullick (University of Minnesota) to attend the Summer School at the American Academy in Rome
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Zachary Woolfolk (Indiana University) to participate in the Vergilian Society's "Greeks and Romans in Town and Country" in Campania, Italy.

2013 winners

  • Semple Award: Ryan Horne, (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to attend the Summer School at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Robert Dudley, (Duke University) to attend American Academy in Rome
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award:
    Veronica-Gaia Ikeshoji-Orlati (University of Virginia) - American Academy in Rome’s summer program in Roman pottery

    Jody Bergman (Scecina Memorial High School, Indianapolis, Indiana) - Vergilian Society’s "Gods, Myths and Sanctuaries of Asia Minor" in Turkey

2012 winners

  • Semple Award: Marcaline Boyd (Florida State University), to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Amy Lather (University of Texas at Austin), to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Rosina Khan (Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, IN), for the Vergilian Society’s Tour to Roman Jordan

2011 winners

  • Semple Award: Robert Hedrick (Florida State University), to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Kenneth Draper (University of Indiana), to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Shannon Walker (Trinity Academy, Raleigh, NC), for Father Foster’s Aestiva Miluauchiae Latinitas program in Milwaukee, WI

2010 winners

  • Semple Award: Ted Gellar-Goad (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Kristina Neumann (University of Cincinnati), to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Mary Jo Behrensmeyer (Mount Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, OH), for the Vergilian Society's "Alexander the Great from Troy to Gordion/Issus" program

2009 winners

  • Semple Award: Sailakshmi Ramgopal, University of Chicago, to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Melanie J. Racette-Campbell, University of Toronto, to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Lucinda Jaffe, University of Arizona, to attend AAR Summer Program

2008 winners

  • Semple Award: Derek Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Christopher D. Bravo (University of Arizona) to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Charlou Koenig (University of Iowa) to attend Aestiva Romae Latinitas

2007 winners

  • Semple Award: Suzanne Lye (University of California at Los Angeles) to attend ASCSA Summer Program
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Ted Gellar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to attend AAR Summer Program
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Sarah Bond (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for an internship at the Epigraphische Datenbank in Heidelberg

2006 winners

  • Semple Award: Eric A. Cox (graduate student, U. of Wisconsin) to attend ASCSA
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Laury A. Ward (graduate student, Duke University) to attend AAR
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Ann R. Maclean (teacher, Briar Woods High School) for Schoolteacher Fellowship at St. Andrews University, Scotland

2005 winners

  • Semple Award: Kristian L. Lorenzo (University of Wisconsin, Madison) to attend ASCSA
  • Mary A. Grant Award: None
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Clayton T. (Cory) Elliott (University of Vermont) to attend Aestiva Romae Latinitatis

2004 winners

  • Semple Award: Molly Magnolia Pryzwansky (graduate student, Duke University) to attend ASCSA
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Ian N. Hochberg (upper school Latin teacher, St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School, Alexandria, Virginia) to attend AAR
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Jeremy S. Huff (graduate student, University of Minnesota) to attend AA

2003 winners

  • Semple Award: Sonia Isaacs
  • Mary A. Grant Award: Mary McHugh
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Alice Yoder 

2002  Winners

  • Semple Award: Michael Baumann
  • Mary A. Grant: Rebecca Edwards
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Susan Belmonte

2001 Winners

  • Semple Award: Gail Cecelia Patton Polk
  • Mary A. Grant: Gillion McIntosh
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Elizabeth S. Olsen

2000 Winners

  • Semple Award: Arti Mehta
  • Mary A. Grant: Michael J. Powers
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Michael P. Fronda

1999 Winners

  • Semple Award: Neil A. Coffee
  • Mary A. Grant: Karen F.B. Wang
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award:Eric Dugdale and Noelle Kirsten Zeiner

1998 Winners

  • Semple Award: Elizabeth Gildrie Kann
  • Mary A. Grant: Jane Van Landschoot Woods
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: Betsy Dawson

1997 Winners

  • Semple Award: Laura A. Delossier
  • Mary A. Grant: Thomas Lijat
  • Janice and Herbert Benario Award: None

Recipients of the travel awards  for the period 1947-1988 are listed on pp. 140-141 of Benario's history (https://camws.org/about/files/CAMWSHistoryFirst80years.pdf). For 1989-1995, see CJ 91 (1995-96) 309-17 (https://camws.org/about/files/CAMWS9thDecade.pdf).