2015 Winners
- Elena Di Rosa
- Department of Philosophy
- “A Contemporary Theory of Responsibility: What Aristotle Can Teach Us”
- Cameron Langford
- Department of Politics
- “Epistemic Ecosystems: A Theory of Science Communications”
- Annaliese Ionson
- Department of Anthropology
- “Competing Discourses: Diabetes and the Narrative of First Nations Identity”
2014 Winners
- Seongcheol Kim
- Department of German
- “Theory, Organization, and Milieu in the West German Extra-Parliamentary Left, 1966-78”
- Mary Schulman
- Department of East Asian Studies
- “The King's Speech: Language and Ritual in the 'Great Proclamation' of the Classic of Documents”
- Naomi Zucker
- Department of Anthropology
- “Visions of Health and Care in São Paulo, Brazil”
- Robert Stone III
- Department of Politics
- “Socrates Satisfied: John Stuart Mill, Plato, and the Athenian Political Ideal”
2013 Winners
- Colleen Culbertson
- Department of Anthropology
- "Testing the Malaria Vaccine: Membership, Expertise, and the 'Adverse Effects' of Accountability"
- Adviser: Rena Lederman, Anthropology
- Victoria Lauren Cadiz
- Department of Philosophy
- "Aristotle's Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory"
- Adviser: Benjamin Morison, Philosophy
- Mariana Olaizola
- Department of Politics
- "A Push for Inclusion: Human Rights and the Implications for Democracy"
- Adviser: Philip Pettit, Philosophy and University Center for Human Values
- Alison Lo
- Department of Psychology
- "Morality and Culture: Differences in American and Chinese Moral Reasoning"
- Adviser: Deborah Prentice, Psychology and Public Affairs
2012 Winners
- Emily Rutherford
- Department of History
- "John Addington Symonds: Humanism, Love, and Sexual Identity in Victorian Britain"
- Adviser: Anthony Grafton, History
- Jonathan Sarnoff
- Department of Philosophy
- "A Theory of Moral Responsibility"
- Adviser: Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy
- Jane Abbottsmith
- Department of Religion
- "A Dwelling for the Abandoned: Love for God and Neighbor in St. Augustine's Homilies on the First Epistle of John"
- Adviser: Eric Gregory, Religion
2011 Winners
- Devin Blair Kennedy
- Contested Body: Identity, Anatomy, Sign
- Samantha Janaki Pergadia
- Animal Tales: Anthropomorphism and the Management of Compassion
- Amelia Jane Thomson-DeVeaux
- Looking with Love: A Feminist Vision of Simone Weil
2010 Winners
- Daniel Eric Rauch
- The New Supermajority: Judician Review, Supermajority Voting Rules, and the United States Supreme Court
- Praveen Giridhara Murthy
- Lost in Translation: How Emerson and Thoreau Helped Gandhi to Reinvent the Bhagavad Gita
- Benjamin Frankel Farkas
- Consensus on Justice in Rawls and Aristotle
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, 1970-199
- 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