2010 Winners
- Daniel Eric Rauch
- Department of Politics
- The New Supermajority: Judician Review, Supermajority Voting Rules, and the United States Supreme Court
- Adviser: Christopher Eisgruber
- Praveen Giridhara Murthy
- Department of Religion
- Lost in Translation: How Emerson and Thoreau Helped Gandhi to Reinvent the Bhagavad Gita
- Adviser: Jonathan Gold
- Benjamin Frankel Farkas
- Department of Philosophy
- Consensus on Justice in Rawls and Aristotle
- Adviser: John Cooper
2009 Winners
- Jo-Ann Tamila Karhson
- Reciprocal Obligations: A Just Theory of Immigration and Assimilation
- Wendy Liu
- Justifying Revolution
- Emily Anne Weigel
- To See It Feelingly: Shakespeare and the Exercise of Early Modern Empathy
2008 Winner
- Emily Seen
- Challenging the Refugee Regime's Exilic Bias: The Relationship between Asylum and Intervention in Humanitarian Crises.
2007 Winner
- Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum
- The Promise of Architecture: Louis Kahn’s National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh
2006 Winners
- Catherine Ambler
- Per lo Raggio de L’Alta Luce: How Averroes’ Theory of Intellection Influences Dante’s ‘Divina Commedia
- Amak Megwalu
- Looking Back Moving Forward: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
2005 Winner
- Xiuhui Lim
- Reasons and Passions: Can Intrinsic Desires Be Rationally Criticized?
2004 Winner
- Stephen Porter
- Traditional Healers, Biological Citizens, and Culture-as-Such: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Recognition in Post-Apartheid South Africe
2003 Winners
- Katrina Anna Besch
- Moral Luck: An Empirical Investigation
- Jessica Rose Munitz
- Ohev Shalom V’Rodef Shalom: A New Perspective on Peacemaking in Ancient Judais moving Forward: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
2002 Winners
- Matthew Frazier
- Beyond Charity: America’s Moral Obligation to the World’s Poor
- Kathryn E. Grzenczyk
- The Importance of How We Value: Moral Reasoning and Personal Integrity
2001 Winners
- Kathleen Daffan
- Defining and Defending Human Dignity: Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in the Inter-American System
- Susan Schaefer
- The Drama of Disappearance: ‘Antigona Furiosa’ and Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’
2000 Winners
- Daniel Powell
- The Gay Gene: An Ethical Analysis of Genetic Testing for Sexual Orientation
- William Yandik
- Voices of the Hudson: A Narrative on PCB Pollution
1999 Winner
- Dale Ho
- Nietzsche, Genealogy, Politics
1998 Winner
- Antonia Stroeh
- From the Hammer of the Witches to the Quiver of the Jews
1997 Winner
- Brad Groatman
- Conscience and Obligation
1996 Winners
- Jennifer Kinsbruner
- Women, Marginal Barrios, and Community Organization: A Case Study in Quito, Ecuador, 1970-1990
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- Karen Laura Thornber
- Toward Human Dignity: The Poetry and Poetics of Toge Sankichi with a new translation of the Gembaku shishi
1995 Winners
- Rebecca Neill Taylor
- At the Intersection of Chronos and Kairos: Time and the Primitive in the Writings of Virginia Woolf
- Fredrick Vars
- Attitudes towards Affirmative Action: Paradox or Paradigm?
1994 Winner
- Rebecca Ryan
- The Sex Right: A Legal History of the Marital Rape Exemption
1993 Winners
- Raquel Ukeles
- Beyond and Yet Within: Exploring the Legitimate Other in Islam and Judaism
- Monica Youn
- No Man’s Land: A Critical Approach to the Social, Medical, and Legal Status of Transsexuals
