2023 - Doug Schrock, Florida State University

2022 – David Schweingruber, Iowa State University

2021 – Timothy Hallett, Indiana University Bloomington

 2020 – Dr. J. Patrick Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology,  Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

2019 – Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, Memorial University

2018 – Leslie Irvine, University of Colorado, Boulder

2017 – Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University

2016 – Matthew W. Hughey, University of Connecticut

2015 – Donileen Loseke, University of South Florida and

           David G. Embrick, Loyola University Chicago

2014 – Dan Miller, University of Dayton

2013 – Clinton R. Sanders, University of Connecticut

2012 – Joel Best, University of Delaware

2011 – Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University

2010 – Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State University

2009 – John M. Johnson, Arizona State University

2008 – Viktor Gecas, Washington State University

2007 – David Altheide, Arizona State University

(The award was titled the ”Feminist Mentor Award” through 2006. It was changed to the  “Mentor Excellence Award” in 2007.)

2006 – Michael Schwalbe, North Carolina State University

2005 – Peter Adler, University of Denver

2004 – Patti Adler, University of Colorado

2003 – Patricia Ticineto Clough, Fordham University

2002 – Adele E. Clarke, University of California, San Francisco and Sherryl Kleinman, University of North Carolina

2001 – Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

2000 – Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida and

         Virginia Olesen, University of California, San Francisco

1999 – Helena Znaniecki Lopata, Loyola University and

        Lauren Richardson, Ohio State University

1998 – Lyn H. Lofland, University of California and

        Davis and Barrie Thorne, University of California Berkeley

1997 – Mary Lou Dietz, University of Windsor and

        Dorothy Smith, University of Toronto