Arthur Stocker received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1939 with a dissertation entitled De Novo Codicum Servianorum Genere. Servius remained the subject to which he would devote most of his scholarly career. Prof. Stocker joined the University of Virginia in 1946, served as Chair 1955-1963 and 1968-1978, and retired in 1984 after 38 years of service to the university. As a retirement gift colleagues, former students, and friends endowed the Arthur F. Stocker Lecture Series. Arthur Stocker died on January 13, 2010, at a healthy and vigorous ninety-five years of age.

1985: Elaine Fantham, Princeton

1986: James Zetzel, Princeton

1987: W. R. Johnson, Chicago

1988: Michael Putnam, Brown

1989: Gordon Williams, Yale

1990: Kenneth Reckford, North Carolina

1991: Richard Thomas, Harvard

1992: T. P. Wiseman, Exeter

1993: James May, St. Olaf

1994: John Miller, Virginia

1995: Robert Kaster, Princeton

1996: Denis Feeney, Wisconsin

1997: Karl Galinsky, Texas

1998: Joseph Farrell, Penn

1999: Kathleen Coleman, Harvard

2000: James McKeown, Wisconsin

2001: Fergus Millar, Oxford

2002: Julia Gaisser, Bryn Mawr

2003: James O'Hara, North Carolina

2004: Stephen Hinds, Washington

2005: Gareth Schmeling, Florida

2006: Richard Tarrant, Harvard

2007: Anthony Corbeill, Kansas

2008: Gareth Williams, Columbia

2009: Christopher Craig, Tennessee

2010: Carole Newlands, Colorado

2011: Michael Dewar, Toronto

2012: Peter White, Chicago

2013: Gregson Davis, NYU

2014: Edward Champlin, Princeton

2015: Cynthia Damon, Penn

2016: Katharina Volk, Columbia

2017: David Levene, NYU  

2018: Antony Augoustakis, Illinois

2019: Christina Kraus, Yale

2020: Amy Richlin, UCLA

2022: Julia Hejduk, Baylor

2023: Irene Peirano-Garrison, Harvard

2024: Michele Lowrie, University of Chicago 

2025: James Uden, Boston