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- 2023: Lisa Johnson, business, “The Treachery of Textualism; or, Representations and Realities in the Language of Law before Roe and after Dobbs"
- 2022: John Lear, history and Latin American studies, "Painting on the Left: Diego Rivera As Artisan and Partisan"
- 2021: Seth Weinberger, politics and government, “From Proud Boys to Plato: Domestic Extremists, Noble Lies, and the Future of American Democracy”
- 2020: Elise Richman, art and art history, “The Ethics of Painting: Affect, Aesthetics, and Agency”
- 2019: 2019: Alyce Demarais, biology, “Plasticity: Responding to the Environment”
- 2018: Douglas Sackman, history, “Democratic Vistas: Re-viewing Western History Impressed in Landscapes”
- 2017: Dexter Gordon, African American studies and communication studies, "Race and Pedagogy: A Yearning..."
- 2016: Roger Allen, physical therapy, "Echoes of Pain in the Neuromatrix"
- 2015: Steven Neshyba, chemistry, "Ice Science in a Changing Climate"
- 2014: Leon Grunberg, sociology and anthropology, and Sarah Moore, psychology, "Say Goodbye to All That: Emerging From Turbulence at Boeing"
- 2013: Andy Rex, physics, "Life, Liberty, and Thermodynamics"
- 2012: George S. Tomlin, occupational therapy, "Evidence, Knowledge, and Decision-Making in Occupational Therapy: It’s Not Rocket Science... Or is it?"
- 2011: Nancy Bristow, history and African American studies, "They’re Taking These Scars Away: Memory, Race, and the Violence of May 1970"
- 2010: David Lupher, classics, "Pagans and Pilgrims: ’Beastly Practices of Mad Bacchanalians’ in Early New England"
- 2009: Suzanne Holland, religion, "Technologies of Desire: Give Me Children or I Shall Die!”
- 2008: David Tinsley, German, "Reading the Minds of the Middle Ages: Alterity and the Study of Medieval Mentalities"
- 2007: D. Wade Hands, economics, "The Future of Economics?"
- 2006: A. Susan Owen, communication studies, "White Benevolence and Cultural Amnesia: Allegories of Race Politics in American Popular Cinema"
- 2005: Mott T. Greene, history, "Doing Science When the Noise is the Signal: The Curious Case of Computer Climate Models"
- 2004: Doug Edwards, religion, "Cana and the Fifth Gospel: Jesus, Jews, and Christian Memory"
- 2003: Rob Beezer, mathematics and computer science, "Advice for Map Makers, Traveling Salesmen, and Party Planners"
- 2002: Helen (Ili) Nagy, art, "Paris, Menelaos and Helen: Reflections of the Saga in Etruscan Mirrors"
- 2001: Geoff Proehl, communication and theatre arts
- 2000: James Evans, physics
- 1999: Geoffrey Block, music
- 1998: Denise L. Despres, English
- 1997: William Breitenbach, history
- 1995: Alan S. Thorndike, physics
- 1993: George M. Guilmet, comparative sociology
- 1991: Michael Veseth, economics
- 1989: Kenneth Rousslang, chemistry
- 1987: Terry A. Cooney, history
- 1985: Beverly K. Pierson, biology
- 1983: Douglas M. Branson, law
- 1981: Michael J. Curley, English
- 1980: Esperanza Gurza, foreign languages
- 1979: Francis L. Cousens, English
- 1978: Delmar N. Langbauer, religion
- 1977: Jeffrey S. Bland, chemistry
- 1976: Esther B. Wagner, English
- 1975: Richard E. Hodges, education
- 1974: Theodore L. Harris, education
- 1973: Z. Frank Danes, physics
- 1972: Frank N. Peterson, sociology
- 1971: Robert G. Albertson, religion
- 1970: John W. Prins, business
- 1969: Leroy Ostransky, music
- 1968: Gordon D. Alcorn, biology
- 1967: John D. Regester, philosophy
- 1966: Harold P. Simonson, English
- 1965: John B. Magee, religion