The Institute's standing awards.

The Doyle Medal

Conferred annually upon a fellow whose sustained service to the Institute over a period of not less than three years has materially advanced its founding purposes. The medal — silver, struck in Boston, mounted on a parchment ribbon — is presented at the annual convocation.

1. 2025

   Michael O'Halloran · Boston chapter

   For three years' continuous service as Boston chapter coordinator and for the cataloguing of the Institute's correspondence files.

2. 2024

   Michael Stein · New York chapter

   For sustained advocacy of the chapter system and for hosting, at his own expense, the 2023 inter-chapter conference.

3. 2023

   Michael Power · Boston chapter

   For services as founding Vice-President during the Institute's formative years; the second medal struck.

4. 2022

   Michael Doyle · Boston chapter

   For services as founding President; the first medal struck. (Conferred by acclamation of the Board, the President recusing himself from the vote.)

The Power Lecture

An annual lecture, delivered at the Institute's annual convocation by an invited speaker. The lectureship was endowed by the founding Board in honor of M. Power and carries an honorarium of one thousand dollars together with the privilege of having the lecture printed in the Institute's annual report.

1. 2025

   Mihály Kovács · Budapest chapter

   "On the Persistence of the Variant: Hungarian Mihály and the Question of Untranslatable Forms."

2. 2024

   Michael Cunningham

   "Naming, Repetition, and the Late Style." A reading from the lecturer's recent fiction.

3. 2023

   Mícheál Ó Conchúir · Dublin chapter

   "The Schoolmaster's Register: Towards a Pedagogy of the Given Name."

4. 2022

   Michael Faraday

   In memoriam. The lecture was, by special resolution, posted as a reading from the lecturer's nineteenth-century notebooks.

5. 2021

   Michael Bloomberg

   Declined with thanks. The honorarium was redirected to the Institute's general fund.

The Founders' Plaque

Conferred not annually but upon the recommendation of the Board, in recognition of patronage at the Founders' Circle level sustained over five or more fiscal years. The plaque — bronze, with the Institute's seal in relief — is mounted upon a hardwood backing of the recipient's choosing.

1. 2025

   Michael Costa · San Francisco chapter

   For five years of continuous patronage at the Founders' Circle level and for material support of the Institute's small grants program.

2. 2024

   Michael Tang · Vancouver chapter

   For sustained patronage and for the gift of the Institute's present letterhead stock.

The Recording Secretary's Citation

A small printed citation, signed by the Recording Secretary, conferred upon members whose unsung work has materially advanced the administrative business of the Institute. There is no fixed number; in some years none have been awarded; in others, several. The citation is, by custom, presented in correspondence rather than at convocation.

1. 2025

   Michał Kowalski · Warsaw chapter

   For the conservation, in his private studio, of three deteriorating volumes of the standing register.

2. 2025

   Michael Hartnell · Seattle chapter

   For organizing the 2024 maritime convocation and for the pro bono dispatch of conference materials.

3. 2024

   Michael Costigan · Boston chapter

   For volunteer cataloguing of the founding-era correspondence files.

4. 2023

   Michael Brunner · Munich chapter

   For the translation, into German and at his own expense, of the Institute's foundational documents.

5. 2022

   Michele Conti · Milan chapter

   For the development of a Milan-chapter biscuit conformable to the Institute's seal.