| Jon Austin** | Civil War Field Embalming: A Demonstration of Period Technique |
| Joe Bean | Adlai! |
| Penelope Bingham** | Who Cooks? American Cookbooks and Changes in Gender Roles |
| Gregg Bonelli | Abuses of Power |
| Antonio Delgado | Amigos of the Allies: Mexicans in WWII |
| Timothy Draper | The Next Year that Almost Was: Chicago, Baseball, and 1977 |
| Brian (Fox) Ellis** | Walt Whitman: A Song of Myself |
| Susan Carlotta Ellis | Music in the Architecture |
| Rosemary Feurer | Uprisings: Illinois Miners Revolt! |
| Beatriz Gartler | Myths, Types, and Stereotypes: Latinos in Hollywood |
| Erik Gellman | Prophets of Labor |
| Cathy Grafton | Threads of History: The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry |
| Bucky Halker** | Woody Guthrie at 100: Songs of Celebration and Protest |
| John Hallwas** | Desperadoes: Notorious Outlaws of Early Illinois |
| Dan Haughey** | The Imagination of Poe |
| Judith Heineman and Daniel Marcotte** | The Magic Carpet: Songs and Stories from Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt |
| David Lightfoot | Personal Genomics: Family Histories Revealed |
| Paddy Lynn | The Belle of Amherst |
| Rocky Maffit | A Life In Rhythm |
| Matt Meacham | The Many Sides of Shape-Notes: A Distinctly American Musical Phenomenon |
| Norman Moline | Greatness Explained: The Great Lakes |
| Terry Rainey | The Last Mission of 'Hog Wild' |
| Pemon Rami | Debunking The Myth of Blaxploitation Films |
| Jose Sandoval | Kind of Blue: A Piano Tribute to Miles Davis |
| Dennis Stroughmatt** | French Creole Fiddle and Tales from the Illinois Country |
| Georgia Tsouvala | Before Title IX: Women Athletes in Ancient Greece and Rome |
| Chris Vallillo** | Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Music |
| Gregory Vogel | The Archaeology of Disaster |