Caldwell Award

The John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, the Humanities Council's highest honor, has been presented annually since its inauguration in 1990. Named for its first recipient, the late Dr. John Tyler Caldwell, former chancellor of North Carolina State University from 1959-1975 and a founding member of the Humanities Council, the award pays tribute to individuals whose life and work illuminate one or more of the multiple dimensions of human life where the humanities come into play: civic, personal, intellectual, and moral.

A distinguished group of award recipients have followed John Caldwell:

1990 - John Tyler Caldwell †

1991 - John Hope Franklin
1992 - Doris Waugh Betts
1993 - Samuel Talmadge Ragan †
1994 - Anne Firor Scott
1995 - John Marsden Ehle
1996 - William W. Finlator†
1997 - Charles Bishop Kuralt †
1998 - Dorothy Spruill Redford
1999 - William C. Friday
2000 - Thomas J. Lassiter, Jr. †
2001 - Houston Gwynne (H.G.) Jones
2002 - Reynolds Price
2003 - Wilma Dykeman† and Hugh Morton†
2004 - Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
2005 - Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
2006 - Benjamin Eagles Fountain, Jr.

2007 - Emily Herring Wilson

† deceased