At the 1998 Special Meeting of the Associated Kyoto Program's Board of Directors, the members of the Board voted to remember the work of Professor Robert Wood, who served as the Resident Director of the AKP in 1991-1992, by establishing the Robert Wood Memorial Visiting Faculty Fellow Award. In addition, the Board also established the Bardwell Smith Visiting Faculty Fellow Award to honor the contributions that Professor Smith has made and continues to make to the AKP since its inception in 1972. More recently, at the 2004 Special Meeting, the members of the Board created the Ray A. Moore Visiting Faculty Fellow Award to honor one of the founding fathers of the AKP. Below is a list of those who have received these Awards.
| Term | Award | Recipient | Affiliation | Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2007 | Ray A Moore | Jonathan Lipman | Mount Holyoke | The Meiji Revolution |
| Spring 2006 | Ray A Moore | Sussana Fessler | SUNY Albany | Landscape and Literature in Japan |
| Fall 2006 | Bardwell Smith | Erik Lofgren | Bucknell | Desire in Japanese Cinema |
| Fall 2006 | Robert Wood | Michael Flynn | Carleton | Linguistics of the Japanese Writing System |
| Spring 2005 | Bardwell Smith | Beverly Nagel | Carleton | Immigration and Ethnic Minorities in Japan |
| Spring 2005 | Robert Wood | Cynthia Atherton | Middlebury | Journey of the Three Jewels: Buddhist Arts in Japan |
| Fall 2005 | Bardwell Smith | Neil Waters | Middlebury | Pre-Modern History of Japan |
| Fall 2005 | Robert Wood | Peter Schumer | Middlebury | The Game of Go |
| Fall 2004 | Ray A Moore | Leonard Smith | Oberlin | World War II in Asia: 1939-1945 |
| Spring 2003 | Robert Wood | Tom Rohlich | Smith | The Literature of Space and Place in The Tale of Genji |
| Fall 2003 | Bardwell Smith | Sarah Strong | Bates | Nature and Place in Kansai Literature |
| Fall 2003 | Robert Wood | Jonathan Best | Wesleyan | Temples of Traditional Japan: Visual Dimensions of the Religious Past |
| Fall 2002 | Bardwell Smith | James Kodera | Wellesley | Issues In Japanese Religion |
| Fall 2001 | Bardwell Smith | Katie Sparling | Carleton | Kansai Fiction |
| Fall 2001 | Robert Wood | James Orr | Bucknell | Creating a Modern Japan: A History |
| Spring 2001 | Bardwell Smith | Daniel Gardner | Smith | Looking for Confucius in Contemporary Japan |
| Fall 2000 | Robert Wood | Keiko Hara | Whitman | Japanese Book Making |
| Spring 2000 | Bardwell Smith | Anthony Chambers | Arizona State | Kyoto and Kansai in Literature |
| Fall 1999 | Robert Wood | Susanne Gay | Oberlin | Japan's Medieval World |