2022 James Diego Vigil (University of California, Irvine)
2021 Carlos Vélez -Ibáñez (Arizona State University)
2020 Cathleen Crain and Nathaniel Tashima (LTG Associates, Inc.)
2018 Not Awarded
2016 Shirley Fiske (University of Maryland)
2014 Not Awarded
2012 Stanley Hyland (University of Memphis)
2010 Merrill Singer (University of Connecticut)
2008 Rosita Worl (Sealaska Heritage Institute)
2006 T. J. Ferguson (University of Arizona)
2004 James Acheson (University of Maine)
2002 Barbara R Johnston (Center for Political Ecology)
2000 Michael M. Horowitz (Institute for Development Anthropology)
1998 Terence S Turner (University of Chicago)
1996 Douglas A Feldman (D.A. Feldman & Associates)
1994 Muriel Crespi (National Park Service)
1992 William Rathje (University of Arizona)
1990 Jean J Schensul and Stephen L Schensul (Hispanic Health Council)
1988 Michael M Cernea (World Bank)
1986 Culture and Learning Department, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawaii
1984 Thayer Scudder (California Institute of Technology)