2011: Claire M. Renzetti, University of Kentucky

2010: Thomas C. Hood, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

2009: John F. Galliher, University of Missouri

2008: David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine

2007: Peter Conrad, Brandeis University

2006: Barbara Katz Rothman, Baruch College, CUNY Graduate Center

2005: Robert Perrucci, Purdue University

2004: Mary Romero, Arizona State University

2003: Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University and Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
           Jerome Scott, Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide

2002: Thomas J. Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara

2001: Valerie Jenness, University of California, Irvine

2000: Beth B. Hess, County College of Morris
           Norma Williams, University of Texas at Arlington

1999: Gary L. Albrecht, University of Illinois, Chicago

1998: John I. Kitsuse, University of California, Santa Cruz

1997: Irwin Deutscher, University of Akron

1996: No Winner Chosen

1995: Gideon Sjoberg, University of Texas

1994: Joyce A. Ladner, Howard University

1993: Irving Kenneth Zola, Brandeis University

1992: Marvin B. Sussman, University of Delaware

1991: Richard Cloward, Columbia University
           Francis Fox Piven, CUNY, Graduate Center

1990: Louis Kriesberg, Syracuse University

1989: Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Northwestern University

1988: James E. Blackwell, University of Massachusetts, Boston

1987: John Useem, SSSP Life Member
           Ruth Hill Useem, SSSP Life Member

1986: Jessie Bernard, Pennsylvania State University

1985: Butler Jones, Cleveland State University

1984: Elliot Liebow, National Institute of Mental Health

1983: Charles V. Willie, Harvard University

1982: S. M. Miller, Boston University
           Joan Moore, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee