2025 – Jack Wood, University of Georgia

2024 – Amy Whiteside, University of Arkansas

2023 – Wallace Golding, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2022 – Colin Cameron, University of Southern Mississippi

2021 – Max Davenport, University of Tennessee

2020 – Katie Scott, University of Georgia

2019 – Christopher Wernecke, Georgia State University

2018 – Jeff Nagel

2017 – Cody R. Hawley

2016 – Daniel P. Overton

2015 -Jonathan M. Broussard, Louisiana State University

2014 – Nick J. Sciullo, Georgia State University

2013 – Jennifer Lynne Cronin, University of North Carolina

2012 – Timothy B. Worley, University of Georgia

2011 – Ryan Erik McGeough, Louisiana State University

2010 – Carly T. McKenzie, University of Alabama; Cynthia Nichols, University of Alabama

2009 – Lauren Reichart, University of Alabama

2008 – None given

2007 – Anna Turnage, North Carolina State University

2006 – Zac Gershberg, Louisiana State University

2005 – Carey L. Powers, City University of New York

2004 – Kelli L. Fellows, University of Georgia

2003 – Kelli L. Fellows, University of Georgia

2002 – Mark A. Williams, Texas A & M University

2001 – William Harlow, Texas A & M University

2000 – Pat Ferguson, University of Memphis

1999 – Martin Carcasson, Texas A & M University

1998 – Christie Trinastich, University of Texas, Austin

1997 – Preston Coleman, University of Iowa

1996 – Garth Pauley, Penn State University

1995 – Dionel Cotanda, University of South Florida

1994 – Raka Shome, University of Georgia

1993 – E. M. I. Sefcovic, University of Georgia

1992 – Kathryn Greene, University of Georgia; Rhonda G. Parker, University of Georgia

1991 – Kim E. Freeman, University of Florida

1990 – Cindy J. Kistenberg, Louisiana State University; Krystyna Strzyzewski, University of Arizona

1989 – Regina M. Hoffman, Louisiana State University

1988 – Roy J. Schwartzman, University of Iowa

1987 – Stephanie Zimmerman, University of Kentucky