AEJMC Award Recipients

2024 — Not awarded this year
2023 — Amy Simons, Missouri
2022 — Not awarded this year
2021 — Karen Assmann, University of Georgia
2019 — Michelle K. Baker, Pennsylvania State
2017 — Janice Collins, Illinois
2015 — Kim Smith, North Carolina A&T
2013 — Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Texas at Austin
2011 — Murgur Geana, Kansas
2009 — Barbara Friedman, North Carolina
2005 — Robert Kerr, Oklahoma
2003 — Sandra Chance, Florida
2002 — Laura Castañeda, Southern California
2001 — Andrew Mendelson, Temple
2000 — Jan LeBlanc Wicks, Arkansas-Fayetteville
1999 — Debashis Aikat, North Carolina
1998 — Lauren Tucker, South Carolina
1996 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
1995 — Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Washington
1994 — Laurence B. Alexander, Florida
1993 — Glen Cameron, Georgia
1992 — Joy Morrison, Alaska-Fairbanks
1991 — Lael Morgan, Alaska-Fairbanks
1990 — C. Zoe Smith, Marquette
1989 — Stephen R. Lacy, Michigan State
Charles Salmon, Wisconsin-Madison
1988 — Terry Hynes, California State, Fullerton
1987 — Tony Atwater, Michigan State
1986 — Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio
1985— Margaret Ann Blanchard, North Carolina
1984— Donna Lee Dickerson, South Florida (first)

2024 — Clifford Christians, Research Professor Emeritus, Illinois
2023 — Patricia Moy, Washington
2022 — No award winner this year
2021 — Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State
2020 — Linda Steiner, Maryland
2019 — Melvin DeFleur, Louisiana State (posthumously)
2017 — Esther Thorson, Michigan State
2016 — Paula Poindexter, Texas at Austin
2014 — Dan Riffe, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2008 — Maurine Beasley, Maryland
2007 — Patrick Washburn, Ohio
2006 — James W. Tankard, Jr., Texas at Austin (posthumously)
2005 — Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina (posthumously)
2004 — Everette E. Dennis, Fordham
2003 — James A. Crook, Tennessee
2001 — Barbara Semouche, North Carolina
1996 — Frances Wilhoit, Indiana
1989 — Guido Stempel, III, Ohio
1986 — Ed Emery, Minnesota
1983 — Raymond B. Nixon, Minnesota
1980 — Eleanor Blum, Illinois (first)

2024 — Wayne Wanta, Florida
2023 — Jane Singer, City, University of London
2022 — Annie Lang, Indiana University Bloomington
2021 — Glen T. Cameron, University of Missouri
2020 — Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2019 — Esther Thorson, Michigan State
2018 — S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State
2017 — Steve Reese, Texas at Austin
2015 — Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse University
2013 — Lee Becker, Georgia
2011 — Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
2010 — Stephen Lacy, Michigan State
2009 — David Weaver, Indiana
2007 — Guido H. Stempell, III, Ohio
2005 — Donald L. Shaw, North Carolina
2004 — Clifford Christians, Illinois
2003 — Melvin DeFleur, Boston
2001 — Ivan Preston, Wisconsin-Madison
2000 — James Grunig, Maryland
1999 — Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1998 — Maxwell E. McCombs, Texas at Austin
1997 — Jack M. McLeod, Wisconsin-Madison
1996 — George Gerbner, Pennsylvania
1995 — Richard F. Carter, Washington
1994 — Phillip Tichenor, Minnesota
               George Donohue, Minnesota
               Clarice Olien, Minnesota
1993 — Wayne Danielson, Texas at Austin
1991 — Scott Cutlip, Georgia
1985 — Bruce Westley, Kentucky
1981 — Harold L. Nelson, Wisconsin-Madison
1979— J. Edward Gerald, Minnesota
1973 — Wilbur Schramm, Iowa
1972 — Ralph O. Nafziger, Minnesota/Wisconsin-Madison
1969— Chilton R. Bush, Stanford (first)

2024 — Emily Vraga, Minnesota
2023 — Ryan Thomas, Washington State
2022 — Linjuan Rita Men, University of Florida
2021 — Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth
2020 — Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Nanyang Technological
                Janet Yang, Buffalo-The State University of New York
2019 — Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Georgia
2018 — Shirley S. Ho, Nanyang Technological
2017 — Jakob D. Jensen, University of Utah
2016 — Jörg Matthes, Vienna
2015 — Homero Gil de Zúñiga, University of Vienna
2014 — Yan Jin, Virginia Commonwealth
2013 — John Besley, Michigan State
2012 — Susan Robinson, Wisconsin-Madison
2011 — Sri Kalyanaraman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010 — Dietram Scheufele, Wisconsin-Madison
2009 — Kimberly Bissell,  Alabama
2008 — Patricia Moy, Washington
2007 — William P. Eveland, Jr., Ohio State
2006 — David S. Domke, Washington
2005 — Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison
2004 — Clay Calvert, Pennsylvania State
2003 — Julie Andsager, Washington State
2002 — David T.Z. Mindich, Saint Michael’s
2001 — Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State
2000 — Carolyn Kitch, Temple
1999 — David Atkin, Cleveland State
1998 — Edward Adams, Angelo State
1997 — Annie Lang, Indiana
1996 — John Ferré, Louisville
1995 — Wayne Wanta, Oregon
1994 — Stephen D. Reese, Texas at Austin
1993 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Texas A&M
1992 — Carroll Glynn, Cornell
1991 — Jeff Smith, Iowa
1990 — Pamela Shoemaker, Texas at Austin
1989— Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison
1988 — Jane D. Brown, North Carolina
1987 — Theodore Glasser, Minnesota
1986— Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
1985— Lee Becker, Ohio State
1984— Ellen Wartella, Illinois
1983— David Weaver, Indiana
1982— Everette Dennis, Oregon
1981— David Rubin, New York (first)

2024 — Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin
2023 — Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Michigan
Adviser: Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern
2022 — Rana Arafat, City University of London
Advisers: Jolanta A. Drzewiecka and Russ-Mohl
2021 — Scott Memmel, University of Minnesota
Adviser: Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota
2020 — Qun Wang, Rutgers
Adviser: Susan Keith, Rutgers
2019 — Pallavi Guha, Maryland (Now at Towson)
Advisers: Kalyani Chadha & Linda Steiner, Maryland
2018 — Brooks Fuller, Louisiana State University
Adviser: Cathy L. Packer, professor emeritus, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017 — Jieun Shin, University of Southern California
Adviser: Lian Jian, University of Southern California
2016 — Rodrigo Zamith, Massachusetts-Amherst
Adviser: Seth Lewis, Minnesota
2015 — Summer Harlow, Texas at Austin
Adviser: (Co-advisers) Dr. Thomas J. Johnston and Dr. Mercedes de Uriarte, Texas-Austin
2014 — Scott Parrott, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Rhonda Gibson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013 — Brendan Watson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012 — Dean Smith, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adviser: Cathy Packer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2011 — Matthew W. Ragas, DePaul
Adviser: Spiro Kiousis, Florida
2010 — Jeremy Littau, Lehigh
Adviser: Esther Thorson, Missouri
2009 — Leigh Moscowitz, College of Charleston
Adviser: Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana
2008 — Ronald J. “Noah” Arceneaux, San Diego State
Adviser: Jay Hamilton, Georgia
2007 — David Cuillier, Washington State
Adviser: Susan Denté Ross, Washington State
2006 — Kathy Roberts Forde, North Carolina
Adviser: Ruth Walden, North Carolina
2005 — Young Mie Kim, Illinois
Adviser: David Tewksbury, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004 — Zala Voicic, Colorado at Boulder
Adviser: Andrew Calabrese, Colorado at Boulder
2003 — Mark Avrom Feldstein, North Carolina
Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina
2002 — Carolyn Bronstein, DePaul
Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
2001 — Edward Alwood, North Carolina
Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina
2000 — Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: Daniel B. Wackman, Minnesota
1999 — Barbara Zang, Missouri
Adviser: David Nord, Indiana
1998 — Craig Trumbo, Cornell
Adviser: Garrett O’Keefe, Wisconsin-Madison
1997 — David Scott Domke, Minnesota
Adviser: Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1996 — Paul Voakes, Indiana
Adviser: Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison
1995 — Karen S. Miller, Georgia
Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
1994 — Jane Rhodes, Indiana
Adviser: Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina
1993 — Caroline Schooler, Stanford
Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1992 — Mark D. West, North Carolina
Adviser: Jane Brown, North Carolina
1991 — Namjun Kang, Syracuse
Adviser: George Comstock, Syracuse
1990 — Bob McChesney, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: William Ames, Washington
1989 — Diane C. Mutz, Wisconsin-Madison,
Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1988 — Vincent Price, Michigan,
Adviser: Donald F. Roberts, Stanford
1987— John R. Finnegan, Jr., Minnesota,
Adviser: Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1986 — Jeffery Smith, Wisconsin-Madison
Adviser: Jim Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison
1985— Richard Kielbowicz, Minnesota
Advisers: Ed Emery, Minnesota; and Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota
1984— Ron Tamborini, Indiana (first)
Adviser: Dolf Zillmann, Indiana

2023 — Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation
2020 — Kyu Ho Youm, Oregon
2019 — Special statement regarding the 2019 recipient
2018 — Charles Self, 227 International, LLC
2017 — Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison
2016 — Barbara Hines, Howard
2015 — Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern
2014 — Carolyn Stroman, Howard
2013 — Douglas Anderson, Pennsylvania State
2011 — David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael’s
2010 — Suzette Heiman, Missouri
2009 — Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State
                Alexis Tan, Washington State
2008 — Keith Sanders, Missouri
                 Silvia Pellegrini, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
2007 — Donald Shaw, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                Maxwell McCombs, Texas at Austin
2006 — David Weaver, Indiana
                Cleveland Wilhoit, Indiana
2005 — Kim Rotzell, Illinois (posthumously)
2004 — Lee Becker, Georgia
                Trevor Brown, Indiana
2003 — James Carey, Columbia
                Clifford Christians, Illinois
2002 — Terry Michael, Washington Center for Politics and Journalism
                Roberta Win, Voice of America
2001 — Susanne Shaw, Kansas
               David McHam, Houston
2000 — Karen Brown Dunlap, Poynter Institute
                Oscar Gandy, Pennsylvania
1999 — Mark Goodman, Student Press Law Center
1998 — Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC
1997 — Lionel Barrow, Jr., Howard
1996 — Gerald M. Sass, The Freedom Forum
Steven Chaffee, Stanford
1995 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
Harry Heintzen, Voice of America
1994 — Edwin Emery, Minnesota
1993 — Orlando Taylor, Howard
               Vernon Stone, Missouri
1992 — Sharon Brock, Ohio State
               Carol Reuss, North Carolina
1991 — Bill Taft, Missouri
John Merrill, Louisiana State
1990 — Wilma Crumley, Nebraska
1989 — Hillier Krieghbaum, New York
1988 — Fred Zwahlen, Oregon State
1987 — Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California
1985 — Al Scroggins, South Carolina
1984 — Bill Chamberlin, North Carolina
               Gerald Stone, Memphis State

2024 — Errin Haines and Staff, The 19th
2023 — Margaret Sullivan, Syndicated Columnist
2022 — Steven Waldman, Report for America
2021 — Omar Jimenez, CNN
2020 — Shane Bauer, Mother Jones
2019 — Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine
2018 — Ronan Farrow, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The New York Times
2017 — The Pulitzer Prizes
2016 — Reporters Without Borders
2015 — Floyd Abrams, 1st Amendment Attorney
2014 — Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists
2013 — First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN
2012 — Carole Simpson, Broadcaster
2011 — Michael Kirk, Frontline Filmmaker
2010 — Nat Hentoff, Syndicated Columnist
2009 — Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
2008 — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
2007 — Helen Thomas, UPI, Hearst
2006 — Molly Ivins, Synidcated Columnist (first)

2024 — Alan K. Chen and Justin Marceau for Truth and Transparency: Undercover Investigations in the Twenty-First Century
2023 — Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, Karlstad University, Sweden, for Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept
2022 — Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas at Austin, and Jeannine E. Relly, University of Arizona, for Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press)
2021 — Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, & the New Protest #Journalism [New York: Oxford University Press, 2020] • Allissa V. Richardson, University of Southern California
2019 — Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities • Sue Robinson, Wisconsin, Madison
2018 — The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia • Michael Clay Carey, Samford University
2017 — Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism • James T. Hamilton, Stanford University
2016 — Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach • Stephen Ward, Wisconsin-Madison
2015 — Making News at The New York Times • Nikki Usher, George Washington University
2014 — Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison • Rodney Benson, New York
2013 — Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the Newsby • Tom Mascaro, Bowling Green State
2012 —Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest by • Matthew C. Ehrlich, Illinois
2011 —About to Die: How News Images Move the Public by • Barbie Zelizer, Pennsylvania
2010 —Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by • John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State
2009 — The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy by • Mark R. Neuzil, St. Thomas
2008 —Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press by • Edward M. Alwood, Quinnipiac
2007 — The African-American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom by • Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio (first)

2024 — Martin Echeverría and Frida V. Rodelo for Political Entertainment in a Post-Authoritarian Democracy: Humor and the Mexican Media
-and-
Summer Harlow for Digital-Native News and the Remaking of Latin American Mainstream and Alternative Journalism
2023 — Claudia Labarca, Gabriel Sadi and Damion Waymer, for Special Issue: Towards a Latin American Perspective in PR Theory and Practice (Published in the May 2022 issue of Public Relations Inquiry)
2022 — Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas at Austin, and Jeannine E. Relly, University of Arizona, for Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience among Journalists in the Twenty-First Century (University of Texas Press)
2019 — News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean • Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Manuel Chavez and Mercedes Vigón
2018 — Liberation Technology in El Salvador: Re-appropriating Social Media Among Alternative Media Projects • Summer Harlow, University of Houston
2017 — Media Movements: Civil Society and Media Policy Reform in Latin America • Maria Soledad Segura and Silvio Waisbord
2016 — Reporting the Cuban Revolution • Leonard Ray Teel, emeritus Georgia State
2015 — Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free • Hector Tobar, University of Oregon
2014 — Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State • John P. Hawkins, Brigham Young University, James H. McDonald, Southern Utah University, Walter Randolph Adams, Iowa State University (first)

2024 — The School of Journalism & Media and Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2023 — Department of Journalism and Strategic Media, University of Memphis
2022 — Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton
2021 — University of Missouri School of Journalism
2020 — S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
2019 — Reynolds, School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno
2018 — Klein College of Media & Communication, Temple University
2017 — Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
2016 — Mayborn School of Journalism, University of North Texas
2015 — College of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Alabama
2014 — Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University
2013 — College of Communications, Pennsylvania State University
2012 — Annenberg School for Journalism, University of Southern California
2011 — School of Journalism & Mass Communication, Texas State University, San Marcos
2010 — School of Communications, Elon University
2009 — Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (first)

2024 — Chris Roberts, Alabama
2023 — Matt Ragas, DePaul
2022 — Joe Grimm, Michigan State
2021 — Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State University
2020 — Bill Cassidy, Northern Illinois
                Carol Holstead, Kansas
2019 — Jan Leach, Kent State
2018 — Donald K. Wright, Boston
2017 — Sandra Utt, Memphis
2016 — Rosental Alves, Texas at Austin
2015 — Wat Hopkins, Virginia Tech
2014 — Don W. Stacks, Miami
2013 — Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth
2012 — Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State (first)

2023 — Cory Armstrong, Nebraska-Lincoln
2021 — Amanda Hinnant, Missouri
2020 — Nicole Kraft, Ohio State
2019 — Stacey J.T. Hust, Washington State
2017 — Lucinda D. Davenport, Michigan State
2016 — Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor
2015 — Julie Andsager, Tennessee
2014 — June Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth
2013 — Geneva Overholser, Southern California
2012 — Barbara B. Hines, Howard
2011 — Linda Steiner, Maryland
2010 — Diane Borden, San Diego State
2009 — Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International
2008 — Esther Thorson, Missouri
2006 — Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth
2002 — Wilma Crumley, Nebraska-Lincoln
2000 — Douglas Ann Newsom, Texas Christian
1998 — Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC
1997 — Carol Oukrop, Kansas State
1996 — Carol Reuss, North Carolina
1994 — Maurine H. Beasley, Maryland
1992 — Jean Ward, Minnesota
1991 — MaryAnn Yodelis Smith, Wisconsin
1990 — Ramona Rush, Kentucky
1989 — Mary Gardner, Michigan State
1988— Donna Allen, Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DC
1983— Cathy Covert, Syracuse
1982— Marion Marzolf, Michigan (first)

2023 — R. J. Morgan, Mississippi
2020 — Ed Madison, Oregon
2019 — Tori Smith, Northern Arizona
2018 — Acel Moore High School Journalism Workshop, The Philadelphia Media Network
2016 — Kimetris Baltrip, Kansas State
2015 — George Daniels, Alabama
2014 — Steve O’Donoghue, California Scholastic Journalism Initiative
2013 — Linda Florence Callahan, North Carolina A&T State
2012 — Illinois Press Foundation and Eastern Illinois University High School Journalism Workshop
2011 — Joseph Selden, Pennsylvania State
2010 — University of Arizona School of Journalism
2009 — Michael Days & Staff,Philadelphia Daily News
2008 — June O. Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth
2007 — Ed Mullins,Alabama
2006 — NO AWARD GIVEN
2005 — Linda Ximenes,Ximenes & Associates
2004 — Diana Mitsu Klos,American Society of Newspaper Editors
2003 — Vanessa Shelton,Iowa
2002 — Walt Swanston,Radio and Television News Directors Foundation
2001 — Doris Giago,South Dakota State
2000 — Linda Waller, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
1999 — Marie Parsons, Alabama
1998 — Lucy Ganje, North Dakota
1997 — California Chicano News Media Association, San Diego Chapter
1996 — Barbara Hines, Howard
1995 — Diane Hall, Florida A&M
1994 — Mary Arnold, Iowa
1993 — Alice Bonner, The Freedom Forum
1992 — Richard Lee, South Dakota State
1991 — Thomas Engleman, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund
1990 — Robert Knight, Missouri
1989 — George Curry, The Chicago Tribune, Washington, DC, Bureau
1988— Craig Trygstad, Youth Communication, Inc., Washington, DC
1987— Pittsburgh Black Media Federation (first)

2023 — Sahar Khamis, Maryland, College Park
2021 — Lisa D. Lenoir, Missouri
2020 — Jennifer Huemmer, Ithaca
                Lauren Britton, Ithaca
2019 — Karin Assmann, University of Maryland and Stine Eckert, Wayne State
2017 – Chelsea Reynolds, California State-Fullerton
2016 — Tania Rosas-Moreno, Loyola-Maryland
2015 — Dustin Harp, Texas at Arlington
2014 — Stacey J.T. Hust and Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, Washington State
2013 — Cory Armstrong, Florida
2012 — Shayla Thiel-Stern, Minnesota
2011 — Marilyn Greenwald, Ohio
2010 — Sheila Webb, Western Washington
2009 — Elizabeth Skewes, Colorado
2008 — Margaretha Geertsema, Butler
2007 — Barbara Barnett, Kansas
2006 — Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State
2005 — Jan Whitt, Colorado
2004 — Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana
                Kavitha Cardoza, Illinois at Springfield
2003 — Susan Henry, California State-Northridge
2000 — E-K Daufin, Alabama State
1999 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Florida A&M
1998 — Sue A. Lafky, Iowa
1997 — Kathleen Endres, Akron
1996 — Linda Steiner, Rutgers
1995 — Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Iowa (first)

2024 — Dorothy Bland, North Texas
2023 — Bey-Ling Sha, California State Fullerton
2022 — Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State University
2021 — Earnest Perry, University of Missouri
2020 — Meta Carstarphen, Oklahoma
2019 — Rochelle Ford, Elon
2018 — Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor
2017 — Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern
2016 — Joel Beeson, West Virginia
2015 — Alice Tait, Central Michigan
2014 — Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Marketing and Media Consultant
2013 — Clint C. Wilson II, Howard
2012 — Federico Subervi, Texas State San Marcos
2011 — Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California
2010 — Robert M. Ruggles, Florida A&M
2009 — Paula M. Poindexter, Texas at Austin (first)

2023 — Joshua D. Cloudy, Texas Tech
2022 — Kristina Medero, Ohio State
2021 — Krishna Madhavi P. Reddi, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
2018 — Qun Wang, Rutgers
2017 — Osita Iroegbu, Virginia Commonwealth
2016 — Adrienne Muldrow, Washington State
2015 — Diane Francis, North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 — Jenny Korn, Harvard
2013 — Dominique Harrison, Howard
2012 — Rowena Briones, Maryland
2011 — Adrienne Chung, Ohio State
2010 — Eulalia Puig Abril,Wisconsin-Madison
2009 — Emily Elizabeth Acosta,Wisconsin-Madison
2008 — Troy Elias,Ohio State
2007 — Yusur Kalynago, Jr.,Missouri
2006 — Omotayo Banjo, Pennsylvania State
2005 — Jeanetta Simms,Central Oklahoma
2004 — Susan Chang,Michigan State
2003 — T. Kenn Gaither,North Carolina
2002 — Mia Moody-Hall,Texas at Austin
2001 — George Daniels,Georgia
2000 — Maria E. Len-Rios,Missouri
1999 — Meredith Lee Ballmer,Washington
1998 — Osei Appiah
1997 — Alice Chan Plummer, Michigan State
1996 — Dwayne Proctor,Connecticut
1995 — Dhavan Shah, Minnesota
1994 — Qingnen Dong, Washington State
1993 — Shalini Venturelli, Colorado
1991 — Diana Rios, Texas at Austin
1990 — Jose Lozano
1989 — Jane Rhodes, North Carolina
1987 — James Sumner Lee, North Carolina
1985 — Barbara McBain Brown, Stanford
1983 — Dianne L. Cherry, North Carolina
1982 — Tony Atwater, Michigan State
1981 — Sharon Bramlett, Indiana
1980 — Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison
1979 — Gillian Grannum, North Carolina
1978 — Paula Poindexter, Syracuse
1977 — John J. Johnson, Ohio
1975 — Norman W. Spaulding, Illinois
1974 — Rita Fujiki, Washington
1973 — William E. Berry, Illinois
                Clay Perry, Indiana
                Sherrie Lee Mazingo, Michigan State
1972 — Richard Allen, Wisconsin-Madison (first)