The ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed upon scholars who have made outstanding contributions to eighteenth-century Scottish Studies over the course of their careers. Honorees are announced at the annual conference.

Recipients of the ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award:

2024 (Stirling) Leith Davis

2023 (St. Andrews) John Robertson

2022 (Ottawa) Ruth Perry

2022 (Liverpool) Ned Landsman

2021 (online conference) Gordon Graham

2018 (Glasgow) Alexander Broadie

2013 (Paris) Susan Manning (1953-2013)

2012 (Columbia) Jane Rendall

2011 (Aberdeen) Nicholas Phillipson (1937-2018)

2009 (St. Andrews) M. A. Stewart (1938-2021)

2008 (Halifax) Roger L. Emerson (1932-2025)

2007 (Montpellier) Andrew Hook (1932-2024)

2006 (Williamsburg) Richard B. Sher

2003 (Charleston) G. Ross Roy (1924-2013)

2001 (Arlington) Hiroshi Mizuta (1919-2023)

1998 (Utrecht) Ian Simpson Ross (1930-2015)

1992 (Philadelphia) Thomas Crawford (1920–2014)

1987 (Virginia Beach) David Daiches (1912–2005)