_From time to time the Society presents a citation to a senior scholar in recognition of distinguished achievement over the course of a career.  No more than one such citation may be presented in a single year, and in some years no award is made.

Past Recipients:

• 1963 - Lauro Martines
• 1964 - Paul Oskar Kristeller
• 1966 - Frederic Lane
• 1967 - A. William Salomone
• 1968 - Shepard B. Clough
• 1969 - Robert Lopez
• 1970 - Hans Baron
• 1974 - Felix Gilbert
• 1976 - Myron P. Gilmore
• 1978 - Eric Cochrane
• 1979 - David Herlihy
• 1980 - Max Salvadori
• 1981 - Norman Kogan
• 1982 - Emiliana P. Noether
• 1984 - R. John Rath
• 1985 - Charles Delzell
• 1986 - H. Stuart Hughes
• 1988 - Charles Trinkaus
• 1989 - Gene Brucker
• 1992 - Robert Brentano
• 1994 - William Bowsky
• 1998 - Paul Grendler
• 2000 - Raymond Grew
• 2001 - Alan Reinerman
• 2002 - John W. O’Malley, S. J
• 2003 - Richard A. Goldthwaite
• 2004 - Denis Mack Smith