| Year | Student name(s) | Thesis Title | Professor Advisor(s) |
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| 2008 | KristinaMcKibben | Negotiating Care: Emotion Work Strategies of HIV/AIDS Workers | Natalia Deeb-Sossa |
| 2007 | Hayley E. Steffen | Rockers or White Kids? Comparing Boundary Work and Racial Awareness in High School Cliques | Kerstin Lueck |
| 2006 | No award | |
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| 2005 | Sara Atienza and Jason Logan | A Second Look at the Model Minority Myth: A Quantitative Analysis of the Academic Readiness of Asian-American Kindergartners | Eric Grodsky |
| 2004 | Kathleen P. Feehan and Nicole Zlatunich | "What Happens to Freshmen's Political Orientations During Their First Year": A Quantitative Evaluation of Factors Associated With Student Attitude Change | Eric Grodsky |
| 2003 | Robin Pleau | Studying While "Old": How Midlife Women Students Experience and Cope with Age Difference in the University | Bill McCarthy, Kimberlee Shauman |
| 2002 | Brooke Bennett | Professionalism and Professional Autonomy: Therapists in an Era of Managed Care | Sean O'Rian |
| 2001 | JoAnne Delfino | Navigating Obstacles with Limited Commitment: Understanding Why Women Leave Engineering | Lyn H. Lofland, Sean O'Riain |
| 2000 | Stephanie Welch | Advocating for the De-Stigmatization of Mental Illness: Ideological Foundations, Framing Tactics, and Possibilities of Forging a New Social Movement | Fred Block, Laura Grindstaff |
| 1999 | Carey Gray | “Maybe to You We’re Disabled, but Not to Us”: Ability, Disability, and the Construction of the Deaf Identity | Patrick Carroll |
| 1998 | Sarah Knobel | | |
| 1997 | No award | | |
| 1996 | Michael Ezell | Modeling the Recidivism Among Young Parolees With Varying Ages: The Applicability and Utility of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model | John Hall, Larry Cohen |
| 1995 | Amy Beth Mannila Camille Fink | Envy and Competition in Same-Sex Friends | John Hall, Lyn Lofland |
| 1994 | Milmon Harrison | “Greater Than the Former…”: Observations on the Consturction of Community within the Pentecostal Tradition | Lyn Lofland, Marry Jackman |
| 1993 | Ronald Ruggerio | Reform in Retreat: France 1981-83 | |
| 1992 | No award | | |
| 1991 | Anna Cooper | | |
| 1990 | W. Richard Barrett | | |
| 1989 | No award | | |
| 1988 | No award | | |
| 1987 | Dante DeTablan | | |
| 1986 | No award | | |
| 1985 | Deborah Paterniti | | |
| 1984 | Michael Harrington Deborah Paterniti | | |