| 2020 | Graduate | Shozab Raza | The Making of a Revolutionary: Theorizing Mystical Marxism in Rural Pakistan |
| 2020 | Undergraduate | Caleb Sabatka | Literary Anthropology and an Anthropology of Writers as … Anthropologists |
| 2020 | Honorable Mention (ug) | Adele Woodmansee | Families and Agriculture in San Miguel del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 2010 | Graduate | Gregory Mitchell | Framing the End(s) of Queer Anthropology |
| 2009 | Graduate | Pearl Chan | Entangled Engagements: Identity, Community Action, and Anthropological Practice |
| 2009 | Undergraduate | Shad Stroh | “Please My Friend, Do Not Work Hard’: Driving Taxi in Vancouver |
| 2009 | Honorable Mention (grad) | Hisako Omori | Ecstatic Catholicism and the Global Cult of Mary |
| 2008 | Graduate | Carrie Little Hersch | Who’s Afraid of the Religious Right? Anthropological Issues in the Study of Religion and Politics |
| 2008 | Undergraduate | Claire-Marie Hefner | Conversion and Longing: Autonomy and Gendered Cultural Expectations in Indonesia |
| 2007 | Graduate | Mara Buchbinder | It’s either one pain or another pain’: Social distress and somatic disruption in family chronic pain narratives |
| 2006 | Graduate | Jennifer Stampe | Mixed Messages at the Museum: Representation, Transformation, Incommensurability |
| 2006 | Undergraduate | Mike Como | Negotiating Language and Power: Passive Responsibility as Social Action among Bilingual Salvadoran Immigrants in Suburban Long Island |
| 2005 | Graduate | Marcy Brink-Danan | The Semiotics of Secrecy: Silence, Intimacy, and Irony in Istanbul |
| 2005 | Undergraduate | Christopher Hagan | Practice Makes Perfect: Doing Ethnography in Two St. Louis Buddhist Communities |
| 2004 | Graduate | Erica Lehrer | In Praise of ‘Passing’: Vicarious Jewish Identity in Post-Holocaust, Post-Communist Poland |
| 2004 | Undergraduate | Sara Garber | An Oral History of American Jewish Culture: Immigration and Assimilation |
*Note: contest was not run all years, and all prizes were not awarded in every contest year.
