2023 Yuchen Yang, "The Art Worlds of Gender Performance: Cosplay, Embodiment, and the Collective Accomplishment of Gender," The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 9(9).
2022 Robert Scott (UC-Boulder), “A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities.”
Honorable Mention: Ken Hanson (Oregon) for “The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community,” published in Symbolic Interaction
2020 Fangheyue Amber Ma, University of Southern Florida, for the paper: “’You Are First a Chinese Citizen, Then a Consumer’: Presenting and Balancing Identities Online as Chinese International Tourists”
2019 Max Papadantonakis (CUNY) for the paper: Cultural Othering: Interpersonal Foundations of Nationalist Ethnic Conflict in a Greek Street Market.
2018 Stephanie Peña-Alves (Rutgers University) for her paper “Say it with Doors: Object-Mediated Communication in Everyday Life”.
2017 Andrea Laurent-Simpson (Texas Women’s University Denton) for her paper “Considering Alternate Sources of Role Identity: Childless Parents and Their Animal “Kids”
2016 Sherri Sasnett-Martichuski (Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder) for her paper “The Transgender Experience: In Search of an Authentic Self”.
2015 Hyeyoung Kwon (Indiana University) for the paper: Intersectionality in Interaction: Immigrant Youth Doing American from an Outsider-Within Position.
2014 Hannah Wohl, Northwestern University, for her paper: Modeling Judgment: Interacting in an Erotic Arts Club
2013 Amanda Gengler, Brandeis University, for her paper: Keep Your Hope, Keep Your Faith: Hope Work and Emotional Threat Management among Families of Seriously Ill Children
Honourable Mention: Gareth M. Thomas, Cardiff University, for this paper, Cooling the Mother Out: Revisiting and Revising Goffman’s Account.
2012 Jason Sumerau and Alex I. Thompson
2011 Lisa-Jo Van den Scott
2010 Marc Eaton
2009 Raymond Garrett-Peters
2008 Eric C. Bonds
2007 Ken Kolb
2006 Margaret Leaf
Honorable mention: Annie Wagganer
2005 Elly Teman and Avi Shoshana
2004 Amy Leisenring
2003 Rob Gardner
2002 Hilary Smith
2001 Adina L. Nack
Honorable mentions:
Scott R. Harris
Tony Puddephatt
2000 Alice Fothergill
1999 Penny Phillips
1998 Jennifer Lois
1997 Leslie Irvine and Joanna Gregson
1996 Daphne Holden
1995 Jessica Fields
Honorable mention:
Stefan Timmermans
1994 Joseph Hopper
1993 Carol Rambo-Ronai
1992 Lori Ducharme
1991 Jody Miller
1990 J. David Brown
1989 Kent Sandstrom
1988 Martha Copp
1987 Elisabeth Schillinger
1986 Judi Miller
1985 Steve Worden
1983 William L. Tam
1981 Spencer Cahill, Wendy Espeland, and Bill Gronfein
1980 Diane Bjorkland and Monica Hardesty
1979 Claire Fraser Holt
1978 David Unruh