2017
Jean-François Côté (Université du Québec à Montréal)
2016
Joe Kotarba (Texas State University)
2015
Diane Vaughan (Columbia University)
2014
Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University)
2013
Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
2012
Donileen Loseke (University of South Florida)
2011
Clinton Sanders (University of Connecticut)
2010
Ruth Horowitz (New York University)
2009
Eviatar Zerubavel
2008
Karin Knorr-Cetina
2007
Gary Cook
2006
Norman Denzin
2005
Clark McPhail
2004
Christine Williams
2003
Irwin Deutscher
2002
Elijah Anderson
2001
Stanford Lyman
2000
Joane Nagel
1999
Jaber Gubrium
1998
Laurel Richardson
1997
Joel Best
1996
Peter M. Hall
1995
Arthur Vidich
1994
Carl Couch
1993
Ralph Turner
1992
John Johnson
1991
Rom Harré
1990
Harvey Farberman
1989
Jack Douglas
1988
Lyn Lofland
1987
William Gamson
1986
Howard S. Becker
1985
Louis Zurcher
1984
Robert Perinbanayagam
1983
Morris Rosenberg
1982
Guy E. Swanson
1981
Fred Davis
1980
Lillian Rubin
1979
Alfred Lindesmith
1978
Herbert Blumer